Ep. 239: Are We Doing All We Can to Empower Women Today?

TOPICS • Chassidus Applied to Zos Chanukah and Parshas Vayigash 0:17 • Are we doing all we can to empower women today? 22:57 • How does someone know what he’s capable of? 36:19 • If one’s “containers” are not aligned with their spiritual “light” (due to a chemical imbalance, as an example), can the container be trained to regulate and adjust itself to its spiritual capacity? 42:45 • Is there a difference how one would treat depression in a Jew and in a non-Jew? 47:44 • What can I do about same gender attraction? 51:07 • Follow-up (episode 235): Homosexuality 55:49 • Chassidus question: What can we learn from Yosef’s mistake by relying on the butler to mention him to Pharaoh, instead of just trusting Hashem? Aren’t we supposed to make a vessel for G-d’s blessings? 57:34 • My Life 2018 essays: o Peripheral or Primary: Two Paradigms for Life, Yossi Grossbaum, 38, Folsom, CA 01:05:18 o Attaining Inner Happiness, Sara Chyrek, 16, Brooklyn, NY 01:07:02 o Unknown Identity Syndrome, Mendel Brackman, 20, Westminster, CO 01:08:08