Daily Life
Your body belongs to G-d, who gave it to you to care for, as a vehicle to carry your soul through life. Just as you would not harm another person, just as you would not harm anything that G-d has created, you should not harm your own body. It is your duty to eat well, to rest, to stay in shape, and to treat your body with respect in every way. Physical fitness is not arbitrary or optional; it is part of your responsibility to G-d. On the other hand, worshipping the body is destructive. The body is a vehicle for the soul; its value lies there, not as an end unto itself.
Many people today are health-conscious. We understand that being healthy makes us feel better, makes us more productive, and ultimately lengthens our lives. We realize that when we are healthy, we can concentrate on family and work, and the other things that are important to us. But most significantly, a healthy body allows you to concentrate on your soul, enabling you to fulfill your divine mission in this world and live a meaningful life.
How to Improve Daily Living
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17 New Year Resolution Ideas For A More Meaningful Life
Theme: Build the Life You Want
It’s not worth making resolutions that you won’t keep. Instead, this year try one (or two! or all!) of these new year resolution ideas for a meaningful life.
How to Get Yourself to Work Out
Theme: Spiritual Wellness
Deeper motivation and insight into the spiritual value of fitness can elevate your experience of working out, which will help you develop a positive relationship with it.
Should You Retire?
With a touch of humor, this short talk by best-selling author and counselor-to-thousands Rabbi Simon Jacobson, cuts to the core of why retirement might look attractive, but isn’t always the healthiest choice. You never retire from life. Your whole life is valuable — from birth to old age.
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How To Create An Oasis In Your Life
One of the healthiest things you can do to find balance and harmony is to build a spiritual oasis in your life. The following suggestions can help you to grow solid spiritual roots — on a daily basis, at home — that you can always return to.
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How the Body Can Make a Better World
A three-minute talk about the body’s potential. Using the example of eating a meal, Rabbi Simon Jacobson explains the spiritual value of the body.
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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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How to Keep Calm Under Pressure: The Secret to Serenity
Discover the secret of finding inner calm and serenity even in the most trying of circumstances.
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Can You Change a Narcissist?
Join Rabbi Jacobson in this important lecture, as he dissects the deeper roots of narcissism and offers a surprising new approach to treating this condition based on seeing the human psyche in a new light.
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The Power of a Moment of Silence
Learn how a moment of silence each day can transform your life, dramatically improve our homes and our schools — and even make them safer — and help raise our social standards to new and unprecedented heights.
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Although I am not Jewish, I always enjoy Simon Jacobson’s material. I am terribly dismayed to see that so many people can not look past the “religion” to see the deep, complex universal teachings that are practically relevant to every human life. I have learnt so much from this amazing modern scholar!
-Ismiallh