This week’s topics:

• Chassidus Applied to 17 Tammuz Nidche
  • What does this day teach us?
  • What can we learn from the nidche?
  • If Judaism doesn’t believe in collective punishment, why do we fast and do teshuva for the sins of our fathers?
• How are the Three Weeks relevant today?
• Chassidus Applied to Pinchas
  • Why was Pinchas granted the covenant of peace for his act of zealousness?
  • Why did G-d wait until the daughters of Tzelofchad complained about not having an inheritance before writing new inheritance laws into the Torah for them?
• How should we react to new astronomical discoveries?
  • How large is the universe according to the Torah?
  • Why did G-d create the multitude of galaxies? Doesn’t this render the Earth as nothing but a puff of a speck in the universe without much importance?
  • Do these findings prove that the universe is billions of years old?
• Can we go on a hunger strike until G-d sends us Moshiach?
• What can I do about my addiction to TV?
• What was the Rebbe’s intention in printing Tanyas in every possible location?
• Follow-up
• Chassidus question: How does Chassidus explain the Three Weeks?

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