Emotions & Psychology
When you awake in the morning, while you are still lying in bed, think for a moment: What does it mean to be awake and alive?
Though many of its clients may not be, the therapy industry itself is healthy and robust. You may even be lying on a couch as you read this. In an era of unprecedented material excess, we sometimes find ourselves feeling emotionally bankrupt. We know where to turn for excitement, but we are lost when it comes to finding meaning. We are experts at distraction, but when we are alone with the mirror, are we truly happy? Are these questions considered neuroses? I don’t know, this conversation is stressing me out…
How to Find the Leader in Yourself
Topic: Role of Government
Each one of us has the potential to be a leader. These are the five key features that we can all work on so that we can each direct our own destinies.
When You Feel Discouraged, Get to Know Yourself
Join best-selling author and counselor-to-thousands Rabbi Simon Jacobson for an inspiring two-minute video on why getting to know your true self will give you the energy to persist.
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How Can I Change My Bad Habits?
Theme: You Cannot Turn Back the Clock
Rabbi Simon Jacobson dissects the anatomy of habits. Citing “The Power of Habit” by Charles Duhigg learn how habits are acquired over time, and what you must do to override these habits in order to overcome your past and move forward.
Are You Defined By Your Externals?
Theme: Personality Types
How much can we tell about a person from their external behavior? Can your outer personality be misleading to yourself and to others?
Happiness Is Your Essence
Theme: Happiness in Life
Happiness is a state of being, not an acquisition. Your essence is happy, and therefore your natural state is happiness.
What to Do When You Think Someone Hates You
Topic: Accepting People As They Are
Rabbi Simon Jacobson discusses the healthy, proactive approach to handling situations when someone seems to have negative feelings toward you. Learn how to respond in a way that is not demoralizing or humiliating — while maintaining your self-control and dignity. Free yourself from the toxins of resentment!
A Listening Technique to Resolve Emotional Conflict
The next time you get into a heated disagreement with someone you love, try this technique.
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60 day journey: Finding Clarity in Times of Confusion
Uncover the secret to finding clarity in an age of confusion. Discover how to cut through the noise and embrace a life illuminated by truth and certainty.
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60 Day Journey: Finding Renewal in Times of Disruption
As we approach the new year, Rosh Hashanah—a time of renewal—please join Rabbi Simon Jacobson in our ongoing 60-Day Journey and explore how to discover renewal in times of disruption.
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60 Day Journey: Finding Love in Times of Hate
60 Day Journey: Finding Love in Times of Hate
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60 Day Journey: Finding Hope in Times of Fear
Please join Rabbi Simon Jacobson in this new fascinating series, as we kick off the 60-Day Journey and discuss how to find hope in times of fear, pain and loss.
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Will War in Israel Ever End?
Explore not just a global issue but a personal one. What lies at the heart of these wars, and what can we do to end them once and for all?
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Start Smart: The Key to Educating Our Youth
As we begin a new school year, this is the perfect moment to revisit and take a hard look at the way we are educating the next generation. Are we doing a good job? Do we even have the right assumptions about what a good education is?
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Should We Be Afraid of Iran?
Delve into the imminent threat from Iran. We will explore how we should address these pressing issues, how the world should approach the situation, and, most importantly, what we can do about it.
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Does G-d Cry?
Powerful and meaningful talk addressing the question we all ask: “Where is G-d when I cry?” The question is stronger than ever as we find ourselves in these difficult times. With the Middle East on the brink of war and threats and uncertainty looming, have we been abandoned to deal with the chaos alone, or is G-d with us on our journey?
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Why Are Our Leaders Acting Like Donkeys and Elephants?
Where are our leaders? Why is no one speaking out? Have you heard any world leader address the crisis, call for action, provide a moral compass — and present a vision for the future?
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Uncertainty Everywhere: Are We at a Turning Point in History?
A crucial discussion, delving deeper into these widespread uncertainties, seeking to uncover the bigger picture: Are these unprecedented and unexpected events indicators of a turning point in history?
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How Can Trump’s Shooting Change the World?
Please Rabbi Simon Jacobson in this critical discussion as he presents a case of how Trump’s shooting can and should serve as a global wake-up call, and become a defining moment that will shape and create a better future.
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Why Are Our Leaders Failing Us?
Explore what we can do to change the status quo. When we are unable to impact things from the top down, we need to work from the bottom up — by us becoming the leaders we seek, and creating standards that demand true leaders to rise.
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What Does Independence and Freedom Mean to You?
Discover ways to free yourself from the many pressures that trap us from realizing your full potential, allowing you to spread your wings, be the best you can possibly be, and reach the heavens and beyond.
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Reactive vs. Proactive: How to Train Yourself to Act, Not React
Discover how to become more proactive in your life — and how that will significantly improve many of your decisions, as well as unleash your great potential, helping you be more successful. Learn methods on how to take control of your life rather than simply reacting to others, which in turn will transform every aspect of your life.
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Real Men Do Cry: The Kabbalah of Masculine Energy
Explore how to reclaim our true masculine and feminine personalities in a healthy way. It’s about improving our personal lives, educating our children properly, and ultimately transforming our society.
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Sinai’s Message to Jews, Christians and Muslims: 3336 Years Later
Join Rabbi Simon Jacobson in this discussion to discover how the events at Sinai 3,336 years ago transformed the world, challenging nations to embrace their divine mission, and learn how Sinai’s enduring influence has refined global values, positioning us for a new stage of spiritual redemption and lasting peace among all nations.
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Why Is Memory So Important? The Past Gives Birth to the Future
What would our days look like if we did not have our memories? If every morning we woke up with a clean slate, a blank picture and we had to rebuild everything anew… If we didn’t have our past experiences, thoughts, and memories to inform our present and future..
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Tears and Joy in the Holy Land: Diary from Israel
I, Rabbi Simon Jacobson, invite you to please join me in this special discussion as I take you through a journey of my personal diary from Israel.
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Has Our Education System Failed Us? How to Raise Healthy Children
Explore the anatomy of who we are as human beings, and how education is meant to shape minds, hearts and souls into being the best they can be.
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Has Our Education System Failed Us? How to Raise Healthy Children
Has Our Education System Failed Us? How to Raise Healthy Children
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Are Our Universities Being Attacked by Hamas
Tune into this important conversation with Rabbi Simon Jacobson as he addresses the pressing question: Is Hamas at war with our students, our universities, and America?
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When Freedom is Slavery
The human aspiration for freedom, the desire to live as a free people, reflects the deepest longing of the soul, and is a vivid departure, standing in stark contrast to the days when monarchs and tyrants ruled. But what does freedom truly mean?
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The Kabbalah of Existential Loneliness
Discover with Rabbi Jacobson the roots of existential loneliness and how to transcend it, finding unity and integration in a higher reality to enrich our lives.
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Can a (Truly) Religious Person be Immoral?
Explore this intriguing topic, dispelling stereotypes and shedding light on the true essence of religion and its inherent connection with morality.
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How to Break Bad Habits and Build Good Ones
Why is it so difficult to break habits? Is there anything that we can do about it? And at the same time, how do we go about building good habits?
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Are You Forgetful? 5 Secrets to a Better Memory
Uncover the secrets of memory retention, including surprising insights into how your mind works and the transformative power of becoming a better listener.
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5 Ways to Build Trust
Join Rabbi Jacobson in a meaningful conversation where he delves into five key strategies to build trust in your life, encapsulated in the acronym T.R.U.S.T: Truthfulness, Responsibility, Understanding, Security, Tenacity. These principles offer a roadmap to nurturing and fortifying trust in our personal and professional relationships, establishing a profound connection to our own core identities and those of others.
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Are Individuality and Love Compatible?
Uncover the elusive third element that seamlessly merges these two entities into a force greater than their individual parts.
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Is Arrogance Masking Ignorance and Insecurity?
Discover ways that help us free ourselves of arrogance’s ugly symptoms and complications; in self-awareness, in relationships, and in communication, both interpersonal and intrapersonal.
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How to Create Miracles in Your Life
Discover the surprising nature of a miracle, and how miracles are happening all around us all the time.
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Finding Joy in the Dark Moments
Discover surprising insights about the power of joy: Joy is now about what you do, it’s who you are.
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The Kabbalah of Today’s Global Conflicts: The Battles between Islam, Christianity and Judaism
Eye-opening discussion and discover the underlying historical, religious and spiritual forces at work here. Recognizing the root of the issues will help us seek out sustainable and long-term solutions.
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What Jews Really Think of Gentiles
Discover what Jews really think about non-Jews — very different from what you would expect. Learn some profound, counterintuitive truths, which will leave you with new and fresh hope, and a gameplan on how to build a unified and loving future — with harmony between all human beings, Jews, gentiles and all peoples of the world.
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How to Overcome Fear
Discover the secret to identifying this silent enemy and explore tools and methods to conquer the fear, and free ourselves of its invisible tentacles — and live a liberated life, with the courage to spread your wings and actualize your greatest potential.
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How Hatred Consumes and Destroys
Delve into the heart of darkness, into the abyss, we can learn how to counter those toxic forces with enormous forces of positivity, light and love.
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2024: Birth and Renewal
Discover a vision for tomorrow. Last week we closed the chapter on 2023 and this week we begin to write the new chapter of 2024 — and of the future of our universe.
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2023: Tremors and Upheavals
Discover how these disruptions and upheavals are actually tremors of a new world being born. The shivers preceding the eruption of a paradigm shift.
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Don’t Let Your Enemy Define You
Discover how to access the real you — independent of all your surrounding circumstances — and unleash its power in your life and in the world.
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The Indestructible Power of Light
Learn how to access that light within ourselves and within the world around us. Especially now, in dark times, finding that indestructible power of light is needed more than ever.
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Military Strategies: Lessons Learned from Chanukah
Discover how light teaches us the best war strategies. Learn five lessons that empower us to fight and win the battles that come our way.
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When War is Peace
Discover how war cannot be justified as an end in itself; we cannot be satisfied with fighting just to defend ourselves. War is legitimate solely when it is the only way to peace. At times we can achieve peace through peaceful means; but at times the only way to achieve peace is sadly through war.
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Historic Wake-Up Call: Are We Responding?
We are currently presented with an opportunity that can radically change the entire future. Be the change.
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The Evil of Antisemitism
A critical conversation dissecting the anatomy of antisemitism and what we can do about it. Learn how the irrational despise of Jews is linked with the natural materialistic hostility to the transcendent and the divine.
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Choose Life
As we wage spiritual war, alongside the physical one, please join Rabbi Simon Jacobson in this fundamental discussion and discover the importance of choosing life. Choose life. Always choose life.
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The History of the Holy Land: Truths Revealed and Myths Dispelled
A critical battle over the truth: discover how to discern fact from fiction, reality from myth.
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Is There Absolute Good and Evil?
Vital and fundamental conversation on good vs. evil and discover the implications involved and what we can actually do about it
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What Are You Willing to Fight For?
Please join Rabbi Simon Jacobson in this critical discussion as we dig deeper to explore the questions that this war presents before us: What do you stand for? What are your values? What are you willing to fight for?
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Why? How? What Can We Do? How to React to the Tragic War in Israel
Please join Rabbi Simon Jacobson in this timely and critical discussion to shine some light, provide perspective and clarity and offer direction and hope in these difficult times.
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A Special New Year Greeting from Rabbi Simon Jacobson
Your soul was sent to Earth with a purpose. Are you living up to it? If you want to change your life, start with that question.
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You Were Sent to Earth With a Mission
Your soul was sent to Earth with a purpose. Are you living up to it? If you want to change your life, start with that question.
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Breaking Down the Highest Level of Empathy
Rabbi Simon Jacobson breaks down the highest level of empathy by telling a story of the Mittler Rebbe.
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How to Talk to Someone that Won’t Listen
Join best-selling author and counselor-to-thousands Rabbi Simon Jacobson for a short how-to video on how to speak to someone who won’t acknowledge wrong.
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Your Potential is Your Biggest Blessing
Most people do not know how much (and what) potential they have. You’ll see the blessing every time you release a new dimension of your potential.
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Depression and Anxiety
If you’re not doing what you are supposed to be doing with your life, your soul is going to cry out to you.
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What Is Our Obligation to Homeless People?
You pass a homeless person on the street and you put a coin in his or her cup. Is that a demonstration of empathy, or should you do more?
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The Natural You
Do you know who you are? Are you in tune with the real you — the person you were naturally before life wearied you?
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Psychological Damage from Trauma and How to Rebuild
Theme: The Dark Side
No matter what type of trauma you have endured your soul has extraordinary resilience and powerful resources to help you rebuild yourself.
Happiness: Nature or Nurture?
Discover that happiness is both inherent and acquired: you are naturally born happy. Happiness is your state of being. However, that core nature can be obfuscated by life experiences.
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Let Go; Let God: How to Get Unstuck and Propel Yourself Forward
How do you get yourself out of the pit when there is seemingly no rope to hold onto, no light to show you the way out? This is one of the most difficult questions to answer because in many cases we may be our own worst enemy, and a prisoner cannot free himself.
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Bored? Trapped? How to Rejuvenate Your Life
Discover how to break out of your boredom and traps. Uncover the secret to one of the greatest gifts in life; learning how to rejuvenate yourself, how to recharge your batteries in a sustainable way and how to access the tremendous resources and potency within you.
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How Do I Find My Calling in Life?
Discover your personal calling in life, and how that will infuse every aspect of your existence with deeper meaning and urgency.
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Is G-d Relevant?
Please join Rabbi Simon Jacobson for this important conversation that has an impact on everything and anything we are involved in. Let’s talk about God and discover what God truly means. And then we can determine whether God is relevant to our lives.
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Is Love Real? (Or Just a Chemical Reaction?)
Discover that not only is love real, it is actually the key to turning the ordinary into the extraordinary, the mundane into the sublime. Love is our ability to bring eternity into our impermanent lives; infuse immortality into our mortality; fuse the infinite and the finite.
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The Kabbalah of Time: 4 Time Management Tips that Will Change Your Life
Discover four steps — reflected in the four-letter acronym of T.I.M.E. — that will empower you to tap into the energy of time and enhance your life.
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Finding Your Self Worth (Even When You’re Told You Don’t Have Any)
Discover how to recognize your true value — that which makes you truly indispensable. Learn how to build inner security and confidence, enabling you to make healthier choices and decisions, and helping you actualize your greatest potential.
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Do Spiritual People Live Longer? (Spoiler: They Do!)
Discover how to introduce transcendence into your daily routines, how to build and embrace eternal foundations and values, and how that will help free you from the stresses and pressures that take their toll on your health. Learn how to unleash forces in your soul that will allow you to live a more fulfilling and a longer life, quantitatively and qualitatively.
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How to Comfort and Be Comforted: A 5 Step Plan to Building Empathy
How to comfort others and how to be comforted yourself. Discover the 5 R’s – five steps to build empathy: Reconnect. Recognize. Rebirth. Rebuild. Renewal.
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How Can a Good G-d Allow Bad Things to Happen?
Can we understand G-d’s ways? How do we remain strong and grow through challenges? What is the healthy way to face pain and suffering? Can we understand G-d’s ways? How do we remain strong and grow through challenges?
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Take on The Challenge: The Power of Competition
Delve into the psychology and mechanics of healthy competition, uncovering its ability to drive personal growth, foster resilience, and ignite excellence.
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How to Truly Feel Alive
Discover powerful methods to invigorating and electrifying your life, making the most of every moment and unleashing your tremendous potential.
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What the Bible Teaches Us About the Power of Words
Do our words matter? How many of them are meaningful and how many are insignificant, even nonsense? How many of our words are hurtful and destructive?
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The Kabbalah of Graduating
Discover that this is really the essence of what graduation is; it’s about the journey of life and how we deal with these transitions and junctures in time as we move and metamorphosize from one stage to the next.
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6 Tips to Improve Leadership Skills
It’s about time to actually identify what makes a leader. Is it power, is it charisma, is it influence? The answer may surprise you and teach you what to expect in a leader and above all, how to be a leader in your part of the world.
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The Kabbalah of Graduating
Discover that this is really the essence of what graduation is; it’s about the journey of life and how we deal with these transitions and junctures in time as we move and metamorphosize from one stage to the next.
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In G-d We Trust. But Do We?
Discover how to build true and lasting trust — fully and wholeheartedly — in yourself and the people around you. Learn how trust in G-d — in an immortal foundation and eternal values — helps us create unwavering security and love that will allow us the confidence to spread our wings and soar.
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How to Become a Giver in a World of Takers
Giving builds confidence and security, enabling you to actualize your greatest potential.
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Why Did a Spiritual G-d Create a Material World?
Conventional thinking divides existence into two dimensions: spirit/energy and body/matter. But is there more to it? Are there only two reversible dimensions to our lives?
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Are Women Inferior to Men in the Bible?
Are women inferior to men? Were they created as an afterthought, a secondary human being, designed to live in the shadow of men?
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How to Cope with Mental Health Challenges
Discover how to access and actualize the deepest parts of your psyche, of you who truly are.
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Inclusivity: Am I My Label?
How are we meant to look at another and at ourselves? Discover that labels are intended for clothing and not for souls.
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What the Bible Says About Mind Altering Drugs
Discover how the Bible – the best-selling book of all time – defines the very essence of the human being: who you are at the core, what happens to your soul as you enter the toxic world that obfuscates your inner identity, and how do you reclaim yourself.
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Are We Obligated to Care for Our Elderly Parents?
Discover how honoring our parents — especially in challenging times — uncovers the very core of our humanity, of our love and relationships, the very essence of our souls and their divine nature.
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It’s a Free Country but Do You Feel Free?
Freedom is one of the most cherished values in life. Personal freedom, political freedom, religious freedom… Much blood, sweat and tears have been shed for freedom; wars fought and lives lost in the name of freedom.
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Black Magic: The Dark Side of Kabbalah
Discover that with all the great and powerful experiences we are capable of – both on a cosmic and personal level – we must never forget that there is also “the other side”, the darker side. Explore methods to not only preempt the negative energy but also learn to harness it toward the good.
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The Kabbalah of Meditation
Discover a method where you can learn to focus your heart and mind and soul. And that focus in turn will spill over and saturate every part of your being with a deeper level of purpose and urgency. Explore how you can live a more focused, calm, serene and less stressful life.
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Are You Happy? The Secret Behind a Smile
Happiness is so crucial to life and yet often so elusive. Many people say, “If things are going well, I’d be happy.” The truth is: If you were happy, things would be going well!
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AI vs. Man: Who Is Smarter?
New technologies compel us to revisit the very nature of intelligence, and indeed the very nature of being human. What is the role and purpose of the mind? What defines us as humans? By exploring the deeper dimensions of knowledge and intelligence, we can learn to appreciate how to properly use artificial Intelligence and all its hidden potential for greatness to help us actualize our higher calling.
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How Consciousness is Born: 6 Steps from the Quantum Supra-Conscious to the Conscious [Part 4]
How much potential do you have within you? Is there a way to release, access and actualize it?
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How Consciousness is Born: 6 Steps from the Quantum Supra-Conscious to the Conscious [Part 3]
In part 3 of a new revolutionary series, Rabbi Jacobson presents time-tested ways to draw from our supra-consciousness and transform our lives. This is no small feat. Doing so can allow us to open up new channels of awareness, while also freeing us from the toxins — pain and trauma — that may have polluted our inner psyches.
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How Consciousness is Born: 6 Steps from the Quantum Supra-Conscious to the Conscious [Part 2]
As conscious beings we are aware of our thoughts, our experiences and phenomena around us. But what lies behind the curtain of our perception? In part 2 of this series Rabbi Jacobson discusses how our pure, pre-birth supra-conscious can empower us to dispel the demons that haunt us.
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How Consciousness is Born: 6 Steps from the Quantum Supra-Conscious to the Conscious [Part 1]
As conscious beings we are aware of our thoughts, our experiences and phenomena around us. But what lies behind the curtain of our perception? If consciousness is the outer tip of the iceberg, what does the iceberg look like? Can we access it?
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Know That You Don’t Know
Find out if you are limiting yourself intellectually and spiritually, and how you can harness the power of that which you do not know.
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How to Be an Emotionally Warm Person
Please join Rabbi Simon Jacobson for a short, inspiring talk on how to be an emotionally warm person. Learn the key to brightening and warming your corner of the world.
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Why New Year Resolutions Don’t Stick
Theme: Build the Life You Want
Rabbi Jacobson discusses New Year’s resolutions, and why they probably won’t stick.
The Psychology of Tomorrow
Discover how you are not a product or victim of circumstances or genes, how you control your destiny — how you have the power, power beyond your belief, to navigate every challenge and curve ball life throws at you.
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What Happens When You Are Overwhelmed
Join Rabbi Simon Jacobson for a short, clear talk about how to maintain focus on the big picture before you get overwhelmed, and even in the midst of crisis.
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Free Choice vs. Determinism
Do we have free choice or is everything in our lives predetermined? Am I wired like a machine — programmed and predictable, or can I change the course of my destiny? That is the big, age old question that has sparked many debates, research and countering arguments.
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10 Steps to Greatness. How to Become a Pioneer
The first and greatest pioneer of them all was Abraham. He faced ten challenges that catapulted him to greatness — a greatness that impacts the world till this very day. Learn how these ten steps manifest in your life.
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The Danger of Boredom
Boredom’s power is because it is innocuous, but boredom is a void. It creates a breeding ground of emptiness.
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Look Back. Move Forward.
Is there a way out of that trap? Can we learn to not ignore our past, but also not to let it hold us hostage? As we prepare to enter the Hebrew New Year, this is the perfect opportunity to begin anew.
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Are You Emotionally Intelligent
Intelligence is not just brain power and it’s not simply data processing. True intelligence is also the wisdom of life — the wisdom of interactions, the understanding of relationships. It goes far beyond the brain and its limited parameters and capabilities.
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The Hard Truth About Adulthood
Theme: Smallness Is the Essence of Greatness
As adults we learn how to cover up our emotional immaturity, but it becomes obvious in relationships and during conflict. In this video, join best-selling author Rabbi Simon Jacobson for straight-talk about maturity.
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The Kabbalah of Tears
Tears are a critical part of our lives. We were given tears as a way of release, like the steam escaping from a kettle. Without the release, all our feelings and emotions, our joys and our sorrows, would just continue to build and bottle up inside of us with no outlet.
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The Antidote to Rage: Inner Security
The tragic massacre in Las Vegas last night leaves us all stunned, wondering what this world is coming to. It also brings up the question: how to address violent rage and preempt future such acts.
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Is Trauma the New Scapegoat
The phrase trauma seems to be everywhere. Statistics show that over 5,500 podcasts have trauma in the title. On TikTok, #trauma has over 6.2 billion views. A recent article title pretty much sums it up: How trauma became the word of the decade. Good question. There is a growing opinion among some that attribute all our problems to trauma. Is that true? Has the word become overused?
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The Secret To Empowering Others
Over the course of your life, are you being taught WHAT to think, or are you learning HOW to think? And what is the difference between the what and the how? Join for this vital conversation on the secret to empowering your friends, family and colleagues and learn how to navigate whatever comes your way.
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Real Success Isn’t About You
Topics: Fear of Success; Servant Leadership
When you shift your focus from self to others, you can bypass your mental blocks and surpass your goals.
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7 Weeks To a Better You – Week 7: Leadership
Let us thoroughly evaluate the faculty of malchus within us — that which makes you unique and special, the feeling of being a king or a queen, filled with courage and humility to live up to your calling and purpose in life, to illuminate and shine in ways that only you can.
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7 Weeks To a Better You – Week 6: Connection
Let us thoroughly evaluate and understand how to actualize the faculty of connection and learn how we can strengthen our bonds, connections and commitments.
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7 Weeks To a Better You – Week 5: Humility
There is no person on earth who does not want to improve their lives. But how do we actually do that? We take on resolutions, make plans and embark on journeys, however they often don’t last very long. Is there a formula for true and sustainable growth?
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Humility is Not Self-hatred
Join best-selling author and counselor-to-thousands Rabbi Simon Jacobson for a short discussion on the distinction between humility and self-hatred — discover what self-love really is.
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7 Weeks To a Better You – Week 3: Empathy
Compassion and empathy are critical components in life; we need to both give it and receive it. Let us explore and navigate this emotional attribute and learn to understand how we can improve our compassion to actualize our lives and to illuminate and warm the world around us.
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Joy Is A Soulful Experience
The joy we need is not a joy associated with objects. It is an inner joy of just being alive. To achieve joy, you have to feed your soul. Instant gratification won’t work. You have to feed your soul. There is no shortcut.
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Do Your Emotions Fool You?
Topic: Intuition
Join renowned author and counselor Rabbi Simon Jacobson for a short talk on the nature of the mind and emotions, and discover how your mind can be employed to guide your emotions.
How to Criticize Without Shaming; How to Discipline Without Yelling
Learn how to integrate discipline with love — growing the flowers while uprooting the weeds — in one seamless process of nurturing a beautiful and exquisite garden.
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The Science and Kabbalah of Pain and Pleasure
Drawing from millennia old kabbalistic wisdom, discover the secret connection between pleasure and pain, and how we can transform the deepest anguish into the greatest joy.
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“Build for Me a Home”: Creating Space for the Transcendent in Your Mundane Life
Join Rabbi Simon Jacobson and discover how to spark an emotional revolution from within.
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How to Merge Matter and Spirit
Join Rabbi Simon Jacobson weekly podcast at 8:30pm every Wednesday as he examines life and offers a comprehensive blueprint of the human psyche. Discover how to live a truly happy and meaningful life by using your divine gifts and wisdom to reach your highest potential.
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Fight or Flight: How to Free Yourself from Fear
Who, or what, is your greatest enemy? This simple question is actually quite challenging because we face many different adversarial forces in our lives. We have enemies within and enemies without.
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Why You Should Let Go of Control
Most of the greatest explorers, entrepreneurs, artists, and leaders have embraced the unknown, the uncontrollable. They have been willing to dive into the uncharted, and see what it is all about. That’s what makes them truly great. They embrace it all — the mistakes and failures along with the successes. If you want to become a greater person, find the beauty in not having all the answers. Celebrate the mysteries.
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Be Grateful For the Small, Quiet Things People Do for You
The small, quiet moments and the small quiet gestures that people make are worthy of profound gratitude.
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Boost Your Confidence in 3 Easy Ways
Please join Rabbi Jacobson as he dissects the roots of our inhibitions and insecurities and offers three specific methods — the triple A: Associates, Attitudes and Actions — that empower you to reclaim and grow your confidence.
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You Have No Right Not to Like Yourself
Theme: Know Your Worth
You might not feel like you like yourself, but it’s not up to you (or any other person) to decide whether or not you’re worth liking.
Do You See the Good or the Bad?
What is your attitude when you look at yourself and others? Do you look at the beauty, or at the problems?
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The Selfless Ego Part 1: Why Not be Selfish?
Join Rabbi Simon Jacobson for a fascinating discussion on selfishness, selflessness and the human ego through the lens of Chassidus, Kabbala and psychology.
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What You Say is What You Get: The Power of Words
Learn how your words are streaming energy into the environment around you; how they create a vibe that shapes your surroundings and the people you are speaking with.
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Lessons Learned: Where Chassidic Philosophy and Modern Psychology Meet
Join a fascinating discussion with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Devorah Kamman, and Eli Nash to explore where Chassidic Philosophy and modern psychology meet.
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Coping with Mental Health Challenges Through the Lens of Chassidic Philosophy
Join a frank discussion about coping with mental health challenges with Rabbi Simon Jacobson and Eli Nash.
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Do You Feel Free?
Join Rabbi Jacobson in this eye-opening and “freeing” presentation, as he introduces a deeper way of defining freedom — not just the freedom to do “whatever you like,” but the freedom to be yourself — to express your unique voice without any outside imposition.
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Finding Hope When All Seems Lost
As our hearts and prayers go out to the lives buried under the rubble of the collapsed Surfside towers and to their families, we also learn powerful lessons about the sanctity and dignity of every individual life, and how hope is never extinguished.
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Bad Mood Remedy: Commitment to a Cause
Join Rabbi Jacobson for this short, inspiring video discussing the importance of commitment, and how it can help you to transcend your perceived personal limitations.
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Will the Real Me Please Stand Up?
It’s high time that you free yourself from the binds and fears that block you from singing your unique and independent song?
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How to Have a Meaningful Day
On a routine day do you find fears, inhibitions, habits and addictions to be controlling your life? Do you feel that you have become a product of circumstances? It’s time to change that. And we begin by changing the way we run our daily lives.
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What is the Secret to a Lasting Relationship?
Please join Rabbi Jacobson in this eye-opening presentation, dissecting the anatomy of a relationship, and offering surprising insights into the inner workings of love.
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How to be More Productive Step 4: Asiyah – Finalize
This week covers the last and final Step 4: Asiyah — finalizing the full dimensional production. It addresses not just how to put on the finishing touches and polish your project, but how to add the intangibles that make your end result shine and reflect your driving vision.
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How to Stop Procrastinating
If you pursue your passion, something you can really get excited about, it will give you positive energy to stop procrastinating.
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Divide and Conquer Your Problems
Join best-selling author and counselor to thousands Rabbi Simon Jacobson for this short, useful insight into finding solutions in the midst of confusion.
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Art as a Path Toward Meaning and Enlightenment
What would life be like without art and music and other creative expressions? Join Rabbi Jacobson on a fascinating journey into the innermost dimensions of your soul and supra-conscious, and discover new forms of expression that resonate with and reflect your inner core.
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Creating Harmony between Diversity and Inclusion
Join Rabbi Jacobson in this poignant presentation in which he outlines a psycho/spiritual model — based on Kabbalsitic mysticism — of discovering the secret of inter-connectivity amidst diverse multitudes.
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How to Raise Happy Children: The Sacred Mission of a Parent
Like gardeners, parents are charged with the vital role of creating a fertile environment, providing all the nurturing nutrients and protecting from toxic pollutants, to nourish and ensure that children will blossom and flourish.
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The Kabbalah of Earth
Discover how to redirect even your melancholy toward positive ends. Learn how to keep your feet firmly planted on the ground, yet have your head, dreams and aspirations in the sky.
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How to Raise Happy Children: What is the Nature of a Child?
How do we raise healthy, wholesome children? What can we do to assure that our children will grow up in the best possible way? In this first of a three-part new course, How to Raise Happy Children, Rabbi Jacobson addresses the root of it all: what is the true nature of a child.
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Are You Afraid? The Antidote to Fear
No matter how lonely we may feel, especially in our loss and pain, we are not alone. The only answer to the invisible power of fear – the fear of being alone – is to recognize that you are not alone.
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Mind Over Matter
Join Rabbi Simon Jacobson for a fascinating discussion on how our mind can truly affect our reality. The way we think can alter the way we live.
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The Shvigger, the Bubbe and the Gantze Mishpacha
The Yiddish language is a culture that has survived through hope, faith and of course a bissel humor. Come explore and decipher the complex yet fascinating Yiddish – and universal – personalities.
Are you a Yente or a Yachne? A Mentch or Meshugenneh?
The Yiddish language is a culture that has survived through hope, faith and of course a bissel humor. Come explore and decipher the complex yet fascinating Yiddish – and universal – personalities.
How to Deal with the Nudnik, Shlemiel and Shlemazel
The Yiddish language is a culture that has survived through hope, faith and of course a bissel humor. Come explore and decipher the complex yet fascinating Yiddish – and universal – personalities.
How Disruptions Lead to a New World Order
Rioting, violence, anger, chaos.. How did we end up with this large divide and polarization of a magnificent country? What are we to make of the upheavals in Washington? And where do we go from here?
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Down to Earth
Join Rabbi Jacobson on this grounded journey through earth and its roots. Learn how to keep your feet firmly planted on the ground, yet have your aspirations in the sky.
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Gone With the Wind
Join Rabbi Jacobson on this breezy journey through air and wind and learn how to have your head in the sky, but your feet firmly planted on the ground.
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Lesson of Water: Learn to Flow
The mystics explain water as a form that you can submerge yourself into: unlike any other of the four elements. As a baby in its mother’s womb, submerged in and nurtured by water, we too can tap into this nurturing spiritual force.
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The Kabbalah of Water
Discover how to create the proper balance and harmony between the fire and water within your psyche and soul.
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The Physics of Chanukah: Learn How to Shine
Discover how the properties of light, so powerfully reflected in the Chanukah flames, teach us the essence of who we are and who were meant to be: Transparent channels of a higher reality.
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The Soul’s Social Dilemma
Please join Rabbi Jacobson for a fascinating new way of looking at the events of this world including social media — through the eyes of your soul? Discover powerful tools and methods to reclaim your destiny and live a life from the inside out instead of the outside in.
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Stability Equals Inner Security
To be secure, you need to push yourself from a solid foundation.
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Build Yourself an Ark: Riding the Waves of Uncertainty
Please join Rabbi Jacobson as he offers a 4125 year-old, time-tested formula for riding through the waves of uncertainty. Learn how to look at uncertainty in the face (without denial, retreat or fantasy) and not only not be overwhelmed, but come out stronger than ever.
How to Build a Strong and Unbreakable Relationship
Many relationships lack a foundation. Learn how to evaluate the strength of your foundation, distinguish between the symptoms and the roots of a compromised bond, and construct or repair your foundation — to the point of establishing a permanent and immortal union.
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Celebrating Vulnerability: The Source of Indestructible Strength
Is there anything positive about vulnerability? Would you be surprised to learn that vulnerability is actually — and counter intuitively — the secret to indestructibility?
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The Kabbalah of Jekyll and Hyde
In this powerful presentation — using Stevenson’s classic about Dr. Jekyll’s experiment to separate his kind and his ugly nature — discover the inner soul of good and bad, and its application to our lives today.
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Rise From the Ashes
Please join Rabbi Jacobson in this special Tisha B’Av program, and discover how this saddest day of the year paradoxically contains the secret to the most fundamental truths in life: How to rebuild trust after betrayal and regain hope after loss.
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What Will the New Normal Look Like? Reclaiming Yourself
Discover how revisiting preconceived notions opens up surprisingly new perspectives and deeper truths. The upending of our previously-held givens in these times of crisis allows you to see the bigger picture, and recognize a far more expansive “normal” — and reclaim yourself in the process.
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Are You Judgmental?
Why is it so easy for a person to judge another? Who gave us that right? Judgmentalism is a product of shallow and superficial attitudes. Coming in touch with your core essence builds your self-esteem, which in turn helps you see the core essence of others, allowing you to see them in a positive light.
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Coal To Diamond: How Do You React Under Pressure?
Crisis and pressure brings out the best in some people and the worst in others. Many lose their composure and confidence when squeezed. They get overwhelmed and can even crumble under pressure. And there are those that maintain their balance and calm; some even rise to the occasion in stressful situations.
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Stronger in the Broken Places: 3 Ways to Build Resilience
Build resilience and rebound from a place of being broken with these three steps by Rabbi Simon Jacobson.
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Finding the Balance: Panel Discussion on Recovery from Sex and Love Addiction
What are the components that lead to a balanced recovery from Sex and Love addiction, or any other addictive disorder? Addiction does not occur in a vacuum, and our panelists will explore how recovery can fill the various voids created by acting out on sex and love addiction.
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Can a Soul be Quarantined?
What distinguishes your soul from your body? Unconfined by the trappings of the body, discover how to unleash the free spirit of your soul and soar to unprecedented heights. Learn how to look at life through the lens of your soul instead of the lens of your body, and, in the process, transform you and everything about you.
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Quarantined and Addicted: How Can I Break Free?
Discover how the root of addiction is driven by the need for love and connection. Human beings crave attachment. When we lack healthy attachments, we turn to unhealthy ones. Learn how to transform the dysfunction into the functional; how to gain relief of emptiness and demons by redirecting and channeling cravings toward transcendent goals.
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Do You Feel Secure? What Can We Rely On and What Defines True Safety
Where can I find security and safety in a time when all our usually reliable systems and schedules have been upended and disrupted? The answer lies in discovering deeper resources that perhaps have never been accessed. When your conventional outer world has been destabilized, you can find permanent and enduring security within your inner self.
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The Transcendent Power of Joy
Often, to appreciate a gift, we need to imagine what life would be like without it. What would our lives be like without joy? Without happiness? Even with the capacity for joy life can be quite difficult. Devoid of any joy, it would simply be unfathomable to imagine how unbearable existence would be.
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Jewish Spirituality & Recovery from Addiction
Join Rabbi Simon Jacobson for a talk on Jewish spirituality and the road to recovery from addiction.
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Happiness: Inherent or Acquired?
Happiness seems to be inherent to the human condition. Look at children. They are naturally happy people. Buoyant and enthusiastic. So then, how do happy children become sad adults? When and how do they lose their positivity?
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Just Dance: How to Fake It Till you Make It Escaping Loneliness and Depression
Is there a formula for happiness? Perhaps we have to begin with the questions: What exactly is happiness? And how can we acquire it?
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Fear is the Enemy of Success
Can we quantify how much fear impedes our ability to grow and succeed? How can we overcome our fears?
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How to Forgive When you Cannot Forget
How then can we move on from these deep wounds? Can we free ourselves from the tentacles of difficult past experiences? Is it possible to forgive if you cannot forget?
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The Art of Connection and Communication: How to Listen and be Heard
Lying at the heart of all relationships — personal, social, professional, political — is communication. The manner in which spouses, parents and children, neighbors, friends, co-workers, employers, employees, communities and nations speak and listen (or don’t) to each other carries the key to thriving, lasting, and healthy connections.
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Feeling Alone: What It Tells You About Your Spirituality
Join Rabbi Simon Jacobson weekly podcast at 8:30pm every Wednesday as he examines life and offers a comprehensive blueprint of the human psyche. Discover how to live a truly happy and meaningful life by using your divine gifts and wisdom to reach your highest potential.
*Enjoy MP3 recordings of this podcast when you become a free member at www.meaningfullife.com/join.
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Why Life Matters
If you feel that your life doesn’t matter much, then all your life choices and relationships don’t matter that much either. If your life is negligible then everything you do is also negligible.
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What Does the Bible Really Say About Morality?
Morality is a big word, which means different things to different people. What exactly is morality? Is it absolute or relative? Are moral values something we can all agree about, or are there different opinions on what constitutes a moral act?
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The Art of Observation: Heightening our Awareness and Learning Life Lessons from the World Around Us
Can we learn to look deeper and see things for what they really are instead of what they appear to be? Is it possible to achieve that kind of awareness on a consistent and positive basis?
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Spirituality and Depression: Adding Spirituality to Traditional Treatment
Is depression a spiritual or physical malady? How does spirituality impact depression and can a heightened spiritual life help decrease depression?
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Join Rabbi Jacobson in this eye-opening talk and discover surprising cosmological and mystical insights on the very nature of life and the ability to renew your life, despite past experiences.
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When You Feel Like Giving Up on Life
Uncover a “new” self with new hope even when your familiar old “self” has lost hope.
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How to Listen to Your Body
We often hear about listening to the voice of your soul. Allowing your spiritual aspirations to express themselves. Some call it: Freeing your spirit. But did you know that your body too contains many messages for you?
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Trustworthy Traits: What They Are, How to Acquire Them & How to Spot Them In Other People
Trust is a vital component in life. Healthy relationships and bonds are built on trust. Without trust, almost everything is compromised if not outrightly destroyed. But which criteria define trust?
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Stress Response: What Men Can Learn from Women
Discover how to live a truly happy and meaningful life by using your divine gifts and wisdom to reach your highest potential.
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How to Sharpen Your Intuition
Discover where your conscious meets your supra-conscious, and your mind meets your heart. Learn how to sharpen your intuition, and allow it to inform your conscious reasoning, which in turn will enhance your sensitivity and elevate your decision making process.
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What It’s Like to Be Honest With Yourself
Learn tools how to uncover the shrouds that cloak the true you. Build up the courage to get to know your inner self in ways you never could have imagined.
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Who You Are When No One Is Looking
Learn ways to unmask your veils and discover the true you — who you are when no one is looking — and how to build the courage to actualize the inner you in your life and relationships. It’s about time to get to know and express your self!
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Happiness in Life Without Money
Theme: Happiness in Life
Can we learn how to free ourselves of this attachment and be happy people independent of our monetary worth?
Build the Life You Want
Learn to avoid the most common mistakes people make when looking to build a life they want, and what new approaches you can take to living up to your great potential and possibilities.
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How to Come Back from the Dark Side
Theme: The Dark Side
Discover the enormous power contained in the “dark side” — like that of a “black hole” — and how to harness it for the good.
Vanity = Arrogance = Fire
Theme: The Kabbalah of Fire
Watch three minutes of Kabbalah to help you cool the fire of vanity, arrogance, and anger.
The Good Thing About Feeling Inferior
Theme: Smallness Is the Essence of Greatness
Please join Rabbi Jacobson as he explores the role of ego and humility in our lives, and digs into the very root of the “self.” Should we be ego-less or is it important to have an ego? *Enjoy MP3 recordings of this podcast when you become a free member at www.meaningfullife.com/join.
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What You Can and Cannot Control
Theme: Letting Go of Control
Join Rabbi Jacobson as he addresses this important issue and learn methods how to determine and distinguish between the things you can change and those you can’t.
Happiness: How To Be Happy and Master Your Emotions
Listen to Rabbi Simon Jacobson’s talk to the High School students in a new effort to acknowledge mental health issues affecting our community and download the exercises.
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How Big Is Your Ego?
Learn the one secret that can redirect a large and unhealthy ego into a force of extraordinary change.
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Children Are Not Born Arrogant
Arrogance is an acquired trait — one that impressionable children often pick up from their parents and adults around them, as well as from friends and other societal influences.
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Should We Ever Take Extreme Measures?
Discover how to navigate your life knowing when to stay the course and when to veer sharply left or right.
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How One Inspiring Moment Can Change Your Life
Discover a new way to look at what you — and every person — can accomplish in a split second. How to see a world in a gain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.
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Ordinary People Becoming Extraordinary
Discover how to look beyond the glitz and glitter — beyond the modern forces which, deliberately or inadvertently, blind us — and see the extraordinary within the ordinary, the unusual within the usual, the miraculous within the natural.
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Courage To Break With Routines and Habits
Discover the secret method of converting and transforming that energy into a powerful force of growth and renewal.
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How to Create a Bright Future Unhaunted by the Past
Learn how to unclog blocks that imprison your psyche — and release the enormous energy within, allowing you to build a bright new future, with beautiful new possibilities, unhaunted by the ghosts of yesterday.
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Are You Dependent, Co-Dependent or In-Dependent?
Whether you are dependent, co-dependent or in-dependent you will discover news ways that empower you to take wing and fly to unprecedented heights.
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What is Integrity
Why is integrity so rare of a commodity today? Do we appreciate its value and power? And how can we rebuild integrity, and by extension, improve our lives and the world?
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The Third Option
Through the lens of The Third Option you will discover new possibilities in every life situation — from dealing with conflicts to building healthy and sustainable relationships.
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How to Protect Yourself from Negativity
Learn how to preempt and prevent negativity from entering your psyche, and how to free yourself from it after it has attacked. Find out how you can spend more time and energy cultivating your flowers instead of uprooting weeds.
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The Hard Truth About Grudges
Learn about the mind-trick that might be holding you back from getting rid of your resentments — it’s the first step away from toxic feelings.
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How to Deal With People You Don’t Trust
Can a relationship be mended after it has been fractured? What things can we do to engender and build trust in our lives?
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Restoring Faith In Humanity
Learn how to look deeper inside yourself and others and discover tools to elicit nobility of the highest order. And in turn, restore confidence in the human race.
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Avoiding Passing Our Own Trauma to Our Children
Discover methods to separate the silver from the dross, to learn from our challenges — to get beyond the ghosts and skeletons in our closets and build powerful, dynamic and wholesome relationships.
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How to Recover from Heartbreak
Learn powerful tools to mend the cracks, suture tears, and discover that nothing is truly as complete as a broken heart.
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How to Feel Even When You Hurt
The difficult truth is that the only way out of emotional pain is through it. We need to learn how to allow the hurt seep through our beings.
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Is There a Jewish Concept of Karma?
Discover refreshing and surprising insights into the forces that shape our lives — and the forces that can transcend causality.
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Your Flaws Are Possibly Not Real
How many of your inadequacies are real? Or, are they really a lack of confidence?
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How to Leave Your Past Behind
Discover ways to excise and expunge the toxins of the past and retain the healthy “cells.”
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How to Pray for Forgiveness Without Misery and Guilt
Free of guilt, misery and shame. Discover the magic of these days and how they can help you soar to unprecedented heights.
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Recovery From Depression
How can a perfectly peaceful soul end up depressed, and what can one do to recover, heal, and become the emotionally healthy and special person he or she is meant to be.
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Maintaining High Self Esteem
Allow the real you to guide your life, ready to rise to new challenges, seize opportunities, deal with difficult situations, and take responsibility when things go awry.
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How to Deal With Enemies
How do you react when faced with adversity? Usually it’s with our base emotions. Our enemies bring out the worst — and sometimes the best — in us. In this discussion you will learn how to cut to the core of the issue.
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How to Become More Sensitive
Learn tools how to become more sensitive — and transform the selfish world in which we live.
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Are You Living Up To Your Potential?
Learn to become the person you are capable of being, not just the person you are.
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Redeeming Negativity
For most of us, negative feelings and experiences are something we are taught to repress or to react to. A revolutionary idea is to, instead, use negativity for positive ends.
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The Kabbalah of Psychology: Joy and Depression
Uncover a rare glimpse into the forces that define our ups and downs, our joys and depressions, and the other factors that shape our daily lives.
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Humiliation: The Spirituality of Embarrassment
Discover why nothing is wrong with you, and in fact why it is quite positive, to feel humiliated. In Judaism, enlightenment does not come from being indifferent. Rather, experiencing embarrassment is a sign of being emotionally healthy.
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Preventive vs. Symptomatic Medicine: How to Preempt Problems
Learn how to create a harmony in your life, which can help prevent many of our maladies and problems.
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Vice Advice – Part Eight: Melancholy and Depression
What is the root and anatomy of melancholy and depression? How can we channel its power to positive ends? Is there a difference between sadness and depression; between healthy sadness and unhealthy melancholy?
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Vice Advice Series Part Seven: Laziness
Discover a refreshing and surprising way to look directly at laziness.
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Vice Advice Series Part Six: Frivolity
Learn new tools to help you redirect and harness this hollow vacuousness for a greater benefit.
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Vice Advice Series Part Five: Envy
Learn new tools to help you redirect and harness jealousy for a greater benefit.
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Vice Advice Series Part Four: Covetousness
Discover a refreshing, surprising way to look at covetousness directly in its face.
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A Whole New Take on Joy
A secure person experiences each one of life’s moments to its fullest. It gives you a whole new take on joy: It’s not about doing things to be happy; it is about having an inner joy that is always there with you.
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Vice Advice Series Part Three: Desire
Discover a refreshing, surprising way to look at desire directly in its face. Learn to help you redirect and harness desire to serve a greater benefit.
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Vice Advice Part Two: Vanity
Discover a refreshing, surprising way to look at vanity directly in its face. Learn how to use new tools which will teach you not only how to disarm arrogance, but how to harness it for a greater benefit
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Vice Advice Part One: Anger
Learn how to use new tools which will teach you not only how to disarm anger, but how to harness it for a greater benefit.
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Coping With Illness and Difficult Challenges: How to Maintain a Positive Attitude
Life happens – discover cognitive and emotional skills to successfully deal with any given challenge.
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Are Your Your Worst Enemy?
The downside of self interest is getting trapped in your comfort zone and your own box. What shakes us up?
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The Real You vs. The Projected You
Please join Rabbi Jacobson in this pre-Yom Kippur workshop and learn how the holiest day of the year will help you discover the real you as opposed to the projected you. Find out how these sacred hours allow you to strip away the accumulated habitual layers that mask your inner core and begin living a life inside-out inside of outside-in.
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Why Singing A Sad Song Will Make You Happy
It’s counter-intuitive: Singing a sad song when you are sad can lead you out of sadness and into a better dimension.
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The Farmer of Chelm
Rabbi Simon Jacobson tells a very funny Chassidic story with a clear lesson about objectivity and subjectivity.
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Something That Does Not Kill You Makes You Stronger
All good results come from effort. If you’re not succeeding, it might just be because you haven’t put in the requisite effort.
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Non-conformists & Conformists: Who Is Healthier?
Conformity does not define a person. Personality defines a person. It comes down to how you see how people tolerate others.
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Are Torah and Psychology Compatible?
Learn how Frankl’s work differs and is superior to the Freudian and Adlerian psychology.
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How to Be Comfortable In Your Own Skin
There is a kind of happiness known as “being content”. Being content comes boils down to being comfortable in your own skin; not being self-conscious.
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Can The New Year Actually Change You? Pre-Rosh Hashana Workshop
Please join Rabbi Simon Jacobson in this Chai-Elul / pre-Rosh Hashana workshop for a fascinating discussion on the nature of human nature, dissecting the anatomy of our wiring, what shapes us and what it would take to reshape us.
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What Are You Afraid Of?
Rabbi Simon Jacobson broadcasts from the Kotel (the Western Wall in Jerusalem) today. Join us for a journey into your psyche, and learn to overcome your fears.
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Objectivity: Are you open minded?
Are you open-minded? Rabbi Simon Jacobson tells a funny Chassidic story to help you identify your level of objectivity.
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Judgmentalism
Judgmentalism in anyone’s life is an opportunity to look inside your heart and soul and figure out: What do you stand for? What are you willing to fight for? Who are you, really?
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Hard To Make Friends
There are two aspects to not making friends: one’s own fears, and not recognizing the strengths of other people.
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Is the World Getting Darker? 19 Kislev/Chanukah Workshop
Take control of your life in an out of control world of accelerated technology, decelerated morality, and unprecedented worldwide unity & personal disunity.
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Panic Attacks
The wife in an unstable marriage is suffering from panic outbursts and panic attacks.
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Two Conflicting Voices: The Battle of the Twins
Discover the dichotomous forces in our psyche and dissect the roots of our inner conflicts, demystifying and defanging the confusion and fear they create.
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If You Were Adam or Eve: Taking Responsibility for the World
Watch this invigorating New Year/Bereishit workshop and learn how to discover your indispensable individuality and embrace your inner core.
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Yom Kippur Class: How Great Can You Become?
Please join Rabbi Jacobson in this creative pre-Yom Kippur workshop and discover how the holiest day in the year carries the secret to appreciating the greatness that you are truly capable of.
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Am I Unlovable? Elul Secrets to Finding Love
Whether you are in need of love or are filled with love, learn how Elul opens for us up the wellsprings of love which run endlessly deep.
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The Desolate Mountain: When Nothing is Everything. A Pre-Nine Days Workshop
Eye-opening Nine Days Workshop. The mightiest power lays buried in the most unglamorous places. Learn the deceptive nature of material existence.
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Betrayal and Commitment
Learn how you too can become an unwavering source of trust, one who is trusted and inspires trust — and how living a dedicated life can transform your entire being.
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How to Find Your Own Voice: The Flame That Rises on Its Own
How much of your life reflects your own exclusive personality, and how much of it is living up to other people’s expectations and opinions?
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Is This Alcoholic Hopeless?
Spiritual advice for an alcoholic who has “tried everything” but hasn’t gotten sober.
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Embarrassed By Supervisor
Rabbi Jacobson advises a viewer on how to move ahead at an internship where her supervisor is embarrassing her in front of other superiors.
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Schadenfreude: Unemployed & Jealous
“How can I stop being jealous of other people’s jobs?”
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How to Step Off the Hamster Wheel
“I feel like I can’t get ahead in life. How can I get unstuck?”
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Shortcut to Overcome Anxiety
“I have anxiety. What can I do to calm down when I feel anxious?”
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What is Your Deepest Secret? Lag B’Omer Workshop
Reveal how to access your innermost dimensions by probing the mystical teachings of the Rashbi, uncovering the forces that shape all of existence.
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Are You A Loner?
Enter into the innermost recesses of our unique, often lonely souls and discover how to transform loneliness into a positive form of singularity.
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Do You Feel Trapped?
Learn how to access new reservoirs of strength and fortitude to counter the forces of doubt and despondence that freezes our souls.
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Is Feminine Energy Superior?
Explore Kabbalistic and Chassidic sources to gain a new awareness of yourself and your potential. Make decisions as the woman or man you are meant to be.
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Do You Hate Yourself?
Learn about the majesty of your being, how to identify the powers that undermine your security and above all, how to reclaim your self, your birthright.
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How Deep Can You See?
Journey into the deepest elements of existence and discover why the vital aspects of life like ideas, feelings, love, and the soul can’t be seen or heard.
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Do You Live With Shame?
Strip your defense mechanisms and their various masks. Discover the inner you that preceded all your fears, allowing you to live up to your potential.
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Are You Emotionally Healthy? Mature Mind vs. Mature Heart
Discover a new way in dealing with fear, vulnerability and negativity. Gain control over all your emotions, and become far more emotionally intelligent.
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Individuality: Discovering Your Unique Voice
Learn how to uncover your unique voice, and how your individuality does not compromise your love for others.
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Kindred Spirits: The Power of Synergy
Discover the power of community, and how its synergy enhances individuality. Learn how a kindred spirit can help you access your uniqueness.
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Psychology and Religion: Are they Compatible?
Discover how Jewish mysticism provides us with a comprehensive methodology addressing our questions about the entire spectrum of the human condition.
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Are You Growing and Bearing Fruit?
Journey into the heart and soul of a tree to discover powerful lessons that address everything from battling anxiety to building enduring relationships.
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Have You Lost Your Voice?
Learn how to see through the clutter and recognize the real you amidst the superimposed pressures that compel you to hide yourself and your individuality.
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Pay it Forward Revolution
Discover how to create a revolution this year in your personal life and in the lives of others that will have a perpetual impact on everything and everyone.
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Are You Emotionally Intelligent?
Discover the secrets to resolving our emotional dissonance, finding inner peace and gaining true emotional intelligence.
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What is Healthy Love?
Peer into the innermost recesses of your heart to discover what true love is and recognize that within your psyche lies all the resources for healthy love.
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The Invincibility of Vulnerability
Redefine vulnerability, allowing yourself to transcend all fears and insecurities. Embrace it and learn to express it in an often cold and harsh world.
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Nothing is as Whole as a Broken Heart
Discover how our cracks are the pathways to our greatest achievements and how utilizing trials and tribulations can reveal the deepest form of light.
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Transforming Your Shadows
Discover how to transform your shadows into light, which will allow you to experience new forms of light and energy in your lives and in your relationships
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Can There be a Shadow Without Light?
Challenge yourself not to be deceived by darkness. Let us shine a light on the darkest place in our soul, in our lives and in the world.
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Do You Know Your Shadows?
Travel down into your psyche and discover the enormous power of your darkest secrets. Learn how to unleash these forces to transform your life.
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Is Your Life Fragmented?
Learn the underlying secret to living life with peace of mind and discover the thread that connects all our daily activities, enhancing your purpose.
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Are You Dignified? Omer Workshop Session Six
Learn about the deepest and most vital of all our emotions, nobility. Discover techniques to increase your dignity, and transform into your potential self.
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Are You Humble? Omer Workshop Session Four
Discover that determination and drive are vital tools when tempered with humility. Learn how to access and incorporate flexibility in your daily life.
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Are You Driven? Omer Workshop Session Three
Uncover the different components of endurance and discover techniques to improve your inner ambitions, and how this can radically improve your situation.
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Do You Know How to Empathize? Omer Workshop Session Two
Learn how to incorporate techniques to improve the way you feel for others. Discover how this can radically improve your situation and the world at large.
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The Original 15 Step Program to Freedom
Uncover the profoundly relevant psychological and emotional blueprint that is the Passover Seder. Discover the steps to free yourself from your inhibitions.
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How Crazy Are You?
Learn what happens when we access the true nature of our psyches. Discover the secret of madness, and the mystery of our innermost souls.
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Secret of Secrets
This Chanukah workshop will uncover the secrets of the secrets of your soul through the mystery of the pure Chanukah oil.
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When No Is Greater Than Yes
Discover the mystery of quietude, a powerful innate force inside all of us. Learn how to actualize this enormous strength, the power of no over yes.
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Do You Have Healthy Boundaries?
Discover the infinite power of the finite and understand why healthy structure in relationships, is the key to experiencing transcendence of all structure.
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Kabbalah of Dreams: Unlocking Their Meaning
Dreams. Since time immemorial, they have captivated and perplexed us. Fleeting visions that dance behind closed eyelids, leaving us with whispers of memories, fragments of stories both nonsensical and profound. What lies behind these nocturnal dramas? What secrets do they hold about ourselves, about the very nature of reality?
Read MoreEmotional Intelligence: The Key to True Maturity
The concept of emotional intelligence, or EI, has gained significant traction in recent times. And for good reason. While IQ might secure us a place in the world, it’s our EI that determines how we navigate the complex landscape of human relationships and experiences.
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The Talking Donkey
The talking donkey in Parshat Balak reveals a phenomenon new to modern psychology— listening to our body’s voice, which carries messages, memories & power.
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What It Means to Be Honest With Yourself
Being honest with yourself means separating yourself from your personal narrative.
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Are You a Giver or a Taker?
A secure person feels secure enough to give, while an insecure person thinks that giving will make him be less.
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How to Connect With Others: A Seven Step Method
Are you socially awkward, or feeling disconnected from your loved ones? The following seven steps are a proven, time-tested method, based on the Kabbalah’s seven-dimensional emotional spectrum, to improve how you bond with others.
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In Defense of Anarchy
The continued quest for an authentic teacher results in a discussion about the virtues of a specific anarchy and the refinement of our search for a rabbi.
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The Stranger
We are all “strangers” in this world. We are all “special children.” All in need and deserving of unconditional love.
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Four Steps to Freedom
Four steps are necessary to be free from any given “trap” in our lives, all with the help from above.
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Transcending Limiting Beliefs
Have you forgotten how to live a meaningful life? You might be held back by limiting beliefs. Here are concrete, tried-and-true spiritual instructions for transcending a slump.
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The Pariah
At times, we all experience existential loneliness. The feeling of “not belonging,” that we are alone, different and isolated, without a sense of camaraderie and community.
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Eight Steps to Breaking Bad Habits
The following eight steps, based on ancient knowledge of harnessing the true power of your mind, can help you to move beyond your bad habits. If you can pick up a habit, you can break it.
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How to Improve Your Listening Skills
Whether you are at work, with your family, or among friends, here are four ways to improve your listening skills and relate to others better.
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The Golden Calf
The majesty of great people is that it is never about them personally. Even when their Divine cause emerges victorious, they display profound humility.
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How to Express Your Opinion Without Being Arrogant
The following three approaches can help you infuse the way you speak with sensitivity and humility — with practice, you can let go of speaking arrogantly.
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Joy Amidst Turmoil
The secret of seamlessness – which lies behind the secret of happiness – is thus dependent on discovering the mission of our lives.
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Can You Make Yourself Happy?
Theme: Happiness In Life
Happiness is the domain of those who don’t take themselves too seriously, who realize that there is a cause greater than themselves and dedicate themselves to that. The end result of a life of giving is lasting happiness.
The Anatomy of Fear
The root of fear is the fear of being alone. The answer to the invisible power of fear – the fear of being alone – is to recognize that you are not alone.
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Beyond the New Year
The book of Genesis ends as the year ends. But our book just begins. What will your story be? It’s up to you.
The Key to Taking Charge of Your Life
As big as the task of taking charge of your life can seem, three basic practices lay the foundation for doing so.
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The Big Confrontation – Jacob & Esau Meet
Each of us must ask ourselves the question: Is my material life aligned with my spiritual one? Have I integrated what I do with who I am?
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How to Rise to the Occasion
The way to triumph in this battle is to muster the deepest resources of the soul – the enormous, unwavering power of your soul’s natural confident nature – which emerges only in the face of adversity.
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Choose to Keep Your Life Positive
All positive change is precipitated by action. The negative forces of the world and within you thrive on complacency and inaction — if you want to live a positive life, you have to do positive things and think positive thoughts.
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New Year’s Resolutions: The Spiritual Edition
Resolutions, like money, are easier to make than to keep. But, also like money, resolutions can truly enrich your life and turn the most mundane exercise into a precious commodity.
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The Key to Happiness
To be a happy, wholesome and healthy person, your body and soul must work in perfect harmony. This means uniting the body and soul.
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Ki Tovo: To You My Heart Speaks
The month of Elul is a month of love and compassion. In this time how does prayer help us to face and respond to pain and suffering?
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Having Intention
If you protect your intentions like you’d protect a small child from harm, you’ll be more likely to succeed at actualizing them.
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Where is G-d When I Cry?
There is such darkness in this world, such unbearable pain, such untold suffering. Where is G-d in all of this?
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Enough Water for All
Perspective and insight by Rabbi Meir of Premishlan as to how G-d runs the world and our misguided perception as to how we think the world is run.
Read MoreHow Not to Say the Wrong Thing
If we practice silence, humility, and compassion, our words will surely be potent for good.
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What Leadership Is (And Is Not)
By discovering what a leader is not, we can come to understand what a leader is. What leadership is…
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Are You Unique?
Become a giver, instead of a taker, and you will find the courage to be yourself, to finally allow your unique voice to play its own music.
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How to Give Yourself Motherly Love
Whether your mother is present in your life or not, each one of us needs to give ourselves motherly love. Motherly love fosters a sense of security and dignity — and you can give yourself the nurturing that you need regardless of whether your mother gave it to you or not, or is present now (or not).
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Special Children
An email exchange between Rabbi Jacobson and the mother of a bi-polar son illuminates the concept of special children and their unique strengths.
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How to Settle the Mind
How to settle the mind when you are in the midst of an anxiety attack? These five tips point to how to settle the mind.
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Are You Loved?
Being loved by family and friends is a valuable source of comfort and support, but true security can only be found in love which stems from the Divine.
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Drugs – Strange Fire
A soul burning with fiery passion is an incredible asset, but lack of self-control coupled with the pursuit of selfish desires lead to disaster.
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Can Drugs Help You To Lead A Meaningful Life?
Can drugs help you to lead a meaningful life? Do they offer true transcendence or momentary sensation?
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Giving Up Your Life for God?
Should we “give up” our lives for God? Certainly not! That’s sacrifice. We shouldn’t give up our God-given talents and behaviors; we should bring them closer to their purer state.
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Joy and Depression
We have the power and ability to bring true and lasting joy into our lives, despite all circumstances.
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Six Ways Love Makes Life Better
As we continue to search for the secret formula to finding love and not losing it, here are several love words to help us unlock the heart to the mystery of love. Love makes life better!
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Anochi: I Give You My Soul
Anochi captures the essence and purpose of all existence: To inscribe and reveal the soul in our every word and in our every experience.
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How to Transcend Deception
Every day life is replete with dissonance and deception (intentional or not). Identify them and you are well on your way to freeing yourself and discovering truth.
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Yud Tes Kislev: The Psycho-Spiritual Revolution of Our Times
A bit more than two centuries years ago Rabbi Schneur Zalman presented us with an invaluable model of life that can be appreciated now more than ever. It would be wise to explore his teachings, which provide us with a most comprehensive blueprint for modern life, uniting faith and reason, spirit and matter in our struggle with physical life.
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Four Ways to Transcend Selfishness
Topic: Servant Leadership
Pursue knowledge, give to charity, practice faith, and love unconditionally.
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
When confronted with a challenge, the best approach to overcome it is to keep moving forward.
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Your Daily Life Is Everything
Theme: Your Daily Life
Using the activities of day-to-day life, you can spark an inspiration revolution for yourself. Your daily life — especially the mundane parts — holds the keys to living a more meaningful life.
The Wisdom to Know the Difference
Theme: Letting Go of Control
We don’t always know what is beyond our control what we can do ourselves. Fortunately, the 4000-year-old tradition of Kabbalah has some answers…
How to Stop Repeating Your Mistakes
It takes sustained and consistent effort, but it is possible to stop repeating mistakes. Try the following.
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When to Enter and When to Leave
Healthy boundaries: Spiritual secrets of knowing when to let stuff in, and when to keep stuff out. How to know your boundaries.
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How to Make Amends When You Have Hurt Someone
You, as all people, have been blessed with free will. When you refrain from doing more harm to others, you actively negate the harm you’ve done before.
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How to Listen to Your Inner Voice
Theme: Your Inner Mystic
Beyond all the complexity of life, beyond all our jaded experiences, beyond all the clutter and noise, we each have within our souls a very quiet place – a soft and gentle voice. This is who you are at your purest core.
Confidence
Korach: Confidence – where does it come from? Inborn or acquired? Nature or nurture? It stems from the soul, one permanence in an immortal physical world.
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Small Moves Make All the Difference
You cannot gain experience without failure. When you take small steps, you are able to slowly and carefully adapt and assimilate healthy approaches by learning from your failures and successes. These small steps help build your confidence and resilience.
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Can We Change Our Personalities?
By seeing ourselves as Divine we can begin looking at the universe in a new way and then recognize our ability to change existence as a whole.
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Untrained Addiction: Five Steps to Break Addiction
This article on five steps to break addiction is not meant to replace a program of recovery. If you are an addict, please seek help from an established recovery center, recovery group, or therapist.
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Tracht Gut Vet Zein Gut: How We Define Our Own Destinies
The entire concept of reality is actually turned inside out: We tend to think there is an objective reality “out there”. The truth is that it is not reality that shapes our perception; it is our perception that shapes our reality.
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Quiz: Are You Emotionally Mature?
How much work do you need to do to become emotionally mature? Find out by taking this quiz.
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Fear Is Really About Loneliness
Isolation is the cause of fear. More than anything, fear is the fear of being alone in our painful situations.
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Which Personality Type Describes You Best?
May we discover our path and live up to it. May it help us reach the time at the end of days when we will gain clarity as to who belongs to what tribe.
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Two Things You Need to Succeed In Life
To be successful in life, you need to be two things: Passionate and humble.
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How to Live on Your Own Terms
One of the biggest obstacles to living on your own terms is the effect that parents, teachers, and the culture at large have had on you. You must look carefully and honestly at which parts of yourself are authentic, and which parts you acquired as a reaction to the outside forces around you.
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Are You Responsible for Other People’s Reactions?
Are you responsible to repress your opinion if it may offend others? In a culture where trigger warnings, safe spaces, and social-media outrage have become part of the common parlance, it can be hard to discern what your responsibility for another person’s reaction is. Is there an absolute guideline?
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Messenger or Matchmaker
Ultimate commitment is when an independent thinker chooses to dedicate himself to a cause greater than himself, to be a messenger and extension of it.
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Six Ways to Gain Confidence
Every one of us can build and grow confidence. Even if you feel insecure and lack self-confidence, it is possible to work on yourself to acquire it.
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Sukkot: My Dear Child
As we begin the holiday of Sukkot a letter to my child, my inner child, my essence, after re-emerging a bit on Yom Kippur.
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Raise Your Expectations to Achieve More
Your attitude shapes your possibilities. You create your own reality. The cause for our lower expectations is lower expectations.
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The Power Of Human Touch
The destruction of the second temple was caused by baseless hatred. Can we begin to repair this through the power of the human touch?
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How to Loosen Up
Spiritually, Kabbalistically, your inner child is your soul — your true self. To loosen up, peel away the shell of adult stress that covers it.
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The Original 12-Type Biblical Personality Test
Theme: Personality Types
Here is a template of twelve archetypes, based on the Biblical twelve tribes, to help you discover your distinctive character, and learn to express your unique voice.
To Be Like G-d
Spirituality in and of itself is not enough to satiate the Jewish soul, which seeks a unity with G-d that transcends a mere servant-master relationship.
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The Pure Ones
The innate purity within children and their effortless connection to the Divine is examined, despite popular scientific theories and thought to the contrary.
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The Face of G-d
From overhearing the conversation between G-d and Moses in Parshat Ki Tissa, we learn how to have a true intimate relationship with our Creator.
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Are You Your Own Worst Enemy?
The great gift of Torah is that it provides us with a Divine blueprint on how to live our lives. Your unique mission statement is embedded within you.
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Four Things to Do When Therapy Isn’t Working
Introduce fresh air to transcend “analysis paralysis.”
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Are We a Victim of Circumstances? How to Be Proactive this Coming Year
Rabbi Simon Jacobson on “Let’s get real with Coach Menachem” Show.
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A Conversation With Rabbi Simon Jacobson and Rivka Malka Perlman
A Conversation With Rabbi Simon Jacobson and Rivka Malka Perlman
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A Conversation With Rabbi Simon Jacobson and Rivka Malka Perlman
A Conversation With Rabbi Simon Jacobson and Rivka Malka Perlman
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Toward a Meaningful Life with Rabbi Simon Jacobson & Sister Jenna
Toward a Meaningful Life with Rabbi Simon Jacobson & Sister Jenna
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Problem of David: Do Our Political Leaders Need to Be Moral Leaders?
This discussion is apropos to the issue of our contested election irrespective of your faith or political party, and on the show we’ll tackle the question of “What Next?” from a spiritual perspective.
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2020 Vision: How the Pandemic Will Change Us w/ Rabbi Simon Jacobson & Sr. Jenna
2020 Vision: How the Pandemic Will Change Us w/ Rabbi Simon Jacobson & Sr. Jenna
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Embracing Your Vulnerability and Loss of Control
Marisa Donnelly welcomes Rabbi Simon Jacobson to talk about the challenge of embracing your vulnerability and learning to let go of all that you can’t control, a message that’s all the more relevant in pandemic time.
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Interview on the The Addicted Mind Podcast
The Addicted Mind Podcast hosts Rabbi Simon Jacobson to discuss making meaning out of suffering, and understanding your own purpose. Learn how surrendering to a higher power, and relinquishing control over your circumstances gives you an edge on dealing with pain.
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Soul to Soul
An excerpt from a paper by Rabbi Simon Jacobson titled “The Basic Principles of Therapy, from a Torah Perspective”.
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The Anatomy of Fear
The only answer to the invisible power of fear – the fear of being alone – is to recognize that you are not alone.
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Overcoming Fear of Failure
After all, experiencing cause and effect is normal; sitting around paralyzed by fear of failure is not.
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Forgiveness Starts With Yourself
As long as you see it as someone else’s problem, you remain a victim. YOU need to take control of your life. It often requires much work, and it always requires a connection to G-d.
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Think Different
We must see current events as a unique opportunity to wake up: This is our time to affect real change, it is time to start thinking and acting differently.
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Think Different Part II: On the Nature of Intelligence
Part two of a discussion about cognitive processes, particularly the twofold approach for expanding one’s mind and tuning into the collective unconscious.
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Does Insecurity Stand In the Way of Your Success?
Theme: Fear of Success
If you are in a pattern of self-sabotage and/or underachieving, it is healthy to evaluate your sense of self-worth and your self-confidence. Our fears, inhibitions, and low self-confidence thrive when we don’t have clarity.
When No is Greater than Yes
Avoiding the wrong thing is better than doing the right thing; protecting is better than serving (Samech Vav) as seen in Parshat Naso and the wilderness.
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Your Deepest Secret Isn’t What You Think It Is
We all have secrets — the question is what you think is your deepest secret. What does it look like? Is it dark and shameful — the ugliest parts of your personality that only you know about, or is it something bright and beautiful?
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How to Find Your Inner Strength
Every one of us has inner strengths, far beyond what we are aware of. The extent to which your inner strength is buried within you effects your access to it, yet with the right effort you can discover these powers.
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Giving Up Your Life for God?
Should we “give up” our lives for God? Certainly not! That’s sacrifice. We shouldn’t give up our God-given talents and behaviors; we should bring them closer to their purer state.
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The Transcendent Sense of Humor
Can humor be used for spiritual growth? Absolutely! But, it has to be the right and dignified kind of humor. Some jokes have the ability to open hearts, reveal the truth, and help you grow.
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Environmental New Year
Everything was created for a purpose and we are responsible to care for and protect every part of existence, whether it is human, animal, vegetable or mineral.
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Stereotyping
Moses teaches us the art of communication. With his guidance we can enhance existing relationships, connect to others more sincerely and end stereotyping.
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Taking Responsibility as a Form of Self-Care
Responsibility is a basic human need, just like food or oxygen; we cannot fulfill or justify our existence without it. It is one of the greatest gifts we’ve been endowed with — the gift of being active participants in the unfolding of our destinies.
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19 Kislev: How the Alter Rebbe Changed the World
Over two centuries ago Rabbi Schneur Zalman presented us with an invaluable model of life that can be appreciated now more than ever. Freud and his colleagues may be the fathers of psychology today. But the Alter Rebbe is the true father of the psychology of tomorrow.
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How to Respect Yourself
If you feel that you lack self-respect, work on building up your personal dignity. Personal dignity is a state of being rather than an activity. Here’s a few ways to establish (or bring back) that state of being in your life.
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How to Create a New Habit
Are you trying to create a new habit, or break free from an old one? There are four practices that will facilitate your process.
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The Journey Begins
Creating a mission statement is vital to achieving your purpose. To find it one must look at their personality, opportunities, people, and places.
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Listen to Your Body
What is most fascinating about this concept is that usually we associate awareness with the soul. Yet, Jewish mysticism teaches that the body too was created by G-d. It therefore contains unique Divine energy of its own. Indeed, the body carries enormous power stemming from the Essence of G-d, which in some ways is superior even to the energy of the soul!
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The Difference Between Fear and Doubt
While healthy fear wakes you up, doubt demoralizes you.
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Do You Think You Are Ugly?
We think we are unbecoming because, when we were children, people told us we were ugly.`Even if our parents told us we were good-looking, our peers took care of making sure we knew it was a lie created by the self-esteem movement.
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How to Practice Self-Discipline with Self-Love
Whether you are embarking on an exercise regimen, attempting work that you have been procrastinating, or trying to establish a new healthy habit, you’ll get farther and you’ll get better results if you do it with love.
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Are You Too Nice?
“Nice” can mean being inoffensive — to anyone. “Nice” can mean people-pleasing and acquiescing. “Nice” can also mean being non-confrontational (even when you should be).
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Seven Ways to Overcome Fear of Commitment
Commitment is majestic. Commitment is dignified. Commitment brings Heaven down to Earth.
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How To Feel Secure In A Climate Of Fear
The culture of fear is not reality. Reality is much higher and bigger and more interesting than the culture of fear. If you’re tired of living in the shadows of all the what ifs…
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When You Are Holding a Grudge
This is a five-point plan for letting go of a grudge. It’s based on Kabbalah, and it really works.
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Suicidal Thoughts
The words I read in Toward a Meaningful Life pierced through me and opened up a world of new possibilities and serene peace.
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How to Chill When You Are About to Blow a Gasket
When you feel the tell-tale signs of wanting to barrel your way through a situation that you have no control over, notice the sensations in your body.
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A Plan to Manage Anxiety
To make a plan to handle anxiety, do not take your fears at face value. When you are afraid, dig deeper.
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