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.
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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The Spiral Staircase
A great mystic uses the “spiral staircase” as an analogy for life’s cycles. What today is at the bottom, will tomorrow be at the top. And like a spiral staircase, we turn our backs to the destination just before we reach its peak.
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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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How to Determine What Is Important to Do
Do you find yourself distracted from core tasks by less important activities? Are you looking for a simple time-management rule? Diminish time-clutter in your life with this one effective guideline.
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How to Get Yourself to Work Out
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.
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How to Stick to a Schedule
To turn motivation into action, try the following four tactics for sticking to a schedule. They counter the internal blocks that cause many people to fail at being organized.
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“Firstly, thank you a million times over for the wellspring of wisdom and insight that you have shared with me and the world! I’ve spent the last decade of my life exploring what it means to be alive as a spirit, and over the last few years you have been a continuous refuge and motivational source in my journey. I pray that I continue down the path that you have shown, and that I merit to become a source of inspiration and life to others, as you have been to people around the world.”
-Adam Cohen