Rabbi Jacobson will discuss the following topics:

What should our focus be as Tishrei concludes and Cheshvan begins?

  • What does v’Yaakov holech l’darko mean?
  • Why do we use a verse about Yaakov’s return to Israel to describe our leaving the holiday season and entering the mundane year?
  • Why is this month called MarCheshvan?


Can we predict what will happen in 5787 based on its number Tav Shin Paz (gold)?

  • What can we learn from events that happened 100 and 200 years ago?


Noach

  • What do the flood and the ark teach us about today’s world?
  • What is the meaning and significance of the teivah (ark)?
  • How can we say that teivah refers to the words of Torah before the Torah was given?
  • Why is this Parsha read in the month of Cheshvan?
  • What is the connection between the flood and a mikveh?
  • Why did G-d destroy the entire world in the great flood and not just the sinners?
  • Is it possible that G-d will destroy the world because of today’s terrorists and their supporters as He did in the time of the flood?
  • What was the difference between Noach and Abraham?
  • How do we reconcile Noach being a tzaddik just in his generation with the meaning of that title explained in Tanya?
  • Why the distinction between kosher and non-kosher animals entering the ark, when consuming meat was not permitted before the flood?
  • What happened to the fish during the flood?
  • Why did the animals want to leave the ark after the flood, unlike Noah?
  • Why was life expectancy lowered to 120 after the flood?


Miracle of Flight 1073

  • Why does G-d not do more great miracles?
  • How do we reconcile this miracle with the many times miracles don’t happen to save people from tragedies, such as on October 7 when 1200 people were killed?

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