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.
Misplaced Humility: When Pride is a Necessity
Explore the concept of misplaced humility and how acknowledging and embracing one’s strengths and accomplishments can be essential for personal growth and fulfilling one’s potential.
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Can Ken and Barbie Ever Get Along? The Secret to True Equality
Can Ken and Barbie Ever Get Along? The Secret to True Equality
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How Should We Honor October 7th?
Explore how we can honor the memory of October 7th by transforming pain into purpose and seeking deeper meaning in the aftermath of tragedy.
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Bullets, Booms and Blasts: How Will This End?
Explore the deeper spiritual implications of global conflicts, offering guidance on navigating turmoil and working toward personal and collective peace.
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Is Satan Real?
Explore the concept of Satan as not an independent force of evil, but a divine creation meant to challenge and test us, guiding us toward spiritual growth.
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The Ceasefire Hoax
Explore how ceasefires often act as temporary solutions that don’t address the deeper, underlying conflicts, urging us to seek lasting peace instead.
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What is Kabbalah?
Explore the profound teachings of Kabbalah in this class, where Rabbi Simon Jacobson demystifies its ancient wisdom and reveals how it applies to your daily life.
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The Mistakes We All Make
Discover and learn insightful tips on how to turn life’s common mistakes into opportunities for growth.
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Is It Ok to Be Sad?
Explore the role of sadness in our lives, discussing how it can serve as a powerful catalyst for personal growth and deeper connections with others. He emphasizes that when handled properly, sadness can lead to profound introspection and self-discovery.
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Why are We So Divided? How to Create a UNITED States
Explore the deep-rooted causes of societal division and offers insights on how to foster unity and create a truly united state.
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Was Trump Saved by G-d?
Explore the concept of divine intervention and its implications in contemporary events, reflecting on how faith and spirituality influence our understanding of political and personal occurrences.
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Reacting to the attempted assassination of Donald Trump
What happened?? Making sense of the attempted assassination on Donald Trump
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A True Leader Creates Leaders; Not Followers
Discover that true leadership is about empowering others to become leaders themselves, by highlighting the importance of fostering growth, independence, and the ability to inspire others.
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Happy Father’s Day!
Explore the profound influence of fathers on their children and society. He offers reflections on the unique responsibilities and joys of fatherhood, providing heartfelt insights and blessings to celebrate and honor fathers.
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Is World Peace Achievable? Lessons from Sinai
Discover how the lessons from Sinai can guide us toward achieving world peace in this insightful video.
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Memorial Day: Remember and Honor
Explore the profound significance of Memorial Day, emphasizing the importance of remembering and honoring those who have sacrificed their lives for our freedom.
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Searching for the Land of Milk and Honey
Explore the profound search for fulfillment and spiritual purpose in “Searching for the Land of Milk and Honey”.
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The 15 Steps in 15 Minutes
Discover the profound journey of self-reflection and transformation in just 15 minutes with ‘The 15 Steps’ video, guiding you through the Passover Seder’s spiritual significance.
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Exodus 2024: Gaza, Iran and Egypt
Explore the timeless lessons of Exodus amidst modern challenges in Gaza and Egypt, delving into the deep-rooted narratives that shape our world today.
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Total Eclipse: Is This the End of the World?
Explore the profound insights on the total eclipse and its significance in “Total Eclipse: Is This the End of the World?”
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How to Deal with Unethical Leaders
Learn practical strategies for navigating the challenges of unethical leadership.
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The Kabbalistic Secret to Drinking Responsibly
Discover profound wisdom and spiritual insights into your relationship with alcohol.
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Some Dance to Remember, Some Dance to Forget…
Delves into the profound impact of memory in our lives.
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Rabbi Speaks Out on DEI
Discover the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and its role in fostering a more compassionate and connected society.
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Argentina and Israel: A Modern Day Miracle
Explore the inspiring tale of the enduring bond and remarkable collaboration between Argentina and Israel in this enlightening video.
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What Is a Mind Without a Soul?
History is a witness to the fact that Jews are always at the center of world events. In every single generation the Jews have been ostracized. But why?
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Why is the World Obsessed with Jews?
History is a witness to the fact that Jews are always at the center of world events. In every single generation the Jews have been ostracized. But why?
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United or Divided Nations?
With wars waging between Israel and Gaza and between Russia and Ukraine, are nations more united or more divided than ever before? Have we made any progress between nations?
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Do You Feel Abandoned?
With wars waging between Israel and Gaza and between Russia and Ukraine, are nations more united or more divided than ever before? Have we made any progress between nations?
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Why We Need Pain
The definition of growth means moving from one state to another. How is this possible? Only through going out of our comfort zone. We need to feel the discomfort in order to grow.
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You Were Born an Original; Don’t Become a Copy
You Were Born an Original; Don’t Become a Copy
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How to Wage a War Against Apathy
Apathy, characterized by indifference, can hinder personal growth and the pursuit of meaningful goals. Discover a comprehensive approach to inspire and ignite a passionate and purposeful life.
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The UNITED States: Why Are We So Divided?
Join Rabbi Simon Jacobson in unraveling the complexities of our divided nation, and embark on a journey towards a more united and harmonious United States. Together, let us discover the path to healing and forge a brighter future for generations to come.
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The Soul of Charisma
Spiritual charisma is not about seeking validation or trying to impress others. It is about embodying and radiating your authentic spiritual nature, connecting with others on a deeper level, and inspiring them to explore their own spirituality.
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Are All Political Leaders Corrupt?
The very question itself, posed by many, speaks of our mistrust and negative feelings towards our leaders today. Does being a leader mean that you need to compromise, negotiate and manipulate your way through power? Can a leader even keep his values and morals intact these days?
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Seize the Day: A Message to All Graduates
Youth Crime and Social Media: How Can We Stop the Trend?
Youth Crime and Social Media: How Can We Stop the Trend?
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This Video Will Make You Want to Call Your Mother
The innate power and strength of a mother; lessons on love, selflessness and complete devotion.
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Think Different. Be Different. Think for Yourself. Be Yourself.
Think Different. Be Different. Think for yourself. Be Yourself.
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How to Make this the BEST Year Yet
Many new years have come and gone and we haven’t necessarily experienced real change. Please join Rabbi Simon Jacobson and learn how to change that narrative!
Your Soul Needs Your Body
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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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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How to Determine What Is Important to Do
Theme: Essential Life Skills
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.
How to Become a Visionary
Explore how to discover your true self, and how you can employ certain methods, a formula to use in your life to widen your horizons.
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How Can I Give Charity Amid Financial Uncertainty?
How Can I Give Charity Amid Financial Uncertainty?
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What Nobody Ever Told You About Passover
This is where it all began, when a family of tribes became a nation of people, when a body of slaves became a soul of freedom. Some people have an exit strategy; we have an exodus strategy.
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Esther’s Secret: Why Jews Celebrate Her Every Year on Purim
Esther’s Secret: Why Jews Celebrate Her Every Year on Purim
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Is ChatGPT a Sign that Something Bigger is Coming?
Is ChatGBT a Sign that Something Bigger is Coming?
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The Soul of the Super Bowl
Lessons on sports, competition and the deeper meaning behind the Super Bowl
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Biblical Events Decoded: Synesthesia: Where Sight Meets Sound
Can you hear your sights and see your sounds? Discover the connection between all our senses and learn how to transcend their nature
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Biblical Events Decoded: The Land and Sea within You
Biblical Events Decoded: The Land and Sea within You
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Biblical Stories Decoded: Exodus: Let My People Go!
How to Grow through Pain and Suffering
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The Physics and Kabbalah of Chanukah
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 Final Showdown
Lessons on confrontation; how to deal with the perpetual battles of life.
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The Soul’s Journey to a Dark World
Lessons on the journey of life; how to transform our world with light and warmth
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The Masquerade of Life
Lessons on “dressing up” for a greater cause; do the clothes make the man or the man makes the clothes?
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The Flame, The Cloud and the Dough: 3 Secrets to Eternal Love
Lessons from our mother Sara; how to be a selfless giver
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Why is G-d Invisible?
Lessons on blind faith and true reality; when seeing is not always believing
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Does Religion Demand Conformity?
Lessons on community and individuality; how to be a unique member in a synergetic society
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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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Does Your Job Define Your Identity? You and Your Work
Discover how to not only balance work and life, but to transform your work into an expression of your soul, like a canvas that reflects an artist’s vision.
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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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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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Summertime: What Are We Vacationing From?
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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How to be More Productive Step 2: Beriah; Outline
This week’s program covers Step 2: Beriah. It addresses how you begin implementing and executing your vision. Armed with a clear picture you start by creating an outline — a skeleton and infrastructure, which will then be fleshed out in the next steps.
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Judgementalism: Look into the Mirror
None of us like to think of ourselves as judgmental—it would make us too petty and small minded. And yet, there are so many judgmental people on this planet. Why?
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How to Overcome Regret
How can we move on and let go of the actions that we’ve come to regret? Can we live fully in the present when our past continues to haunt us?
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How to Plan for an Unknown Future
Discover how we gain true control when we let go of control. How the unknowable works hand-in-hand with the knowable, as the unconscious works hand-in-hand with the conscious — weaving together an exquisite and exhilarating picture of true reality.
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Honesty in a World of Deception
Why be honest when we see deception everywhere we turn? We all consider truth and honesty as true virtues, and no one likes being called a liar. So why is it that so many people lie? And why is it so easy to lie? Is deception a natural part of the world order, or is it an aberration? Can we maintain our integrity and succeed in a duplicitous world?
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2020: A Vision for Tomorrow Part II
What will the next decade bring? How will our future look? Are we entering a new world order? Can we identify signs and patterns that help us forecast the world of tomorrow? What methods can we employ to help us navigate the terrain of the coming years.
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How to Fall Asleep: Insight from Kabbalah
What is sleep? What happens when we sleep? What can we do to have a more restful and peaceful sleep?
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How to Spiritually Charge Your Daily Routine
Spiritually charge up your daily quotidian, and turn the ordinary into the extraordinary.
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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How to Improve Daily Living
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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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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AI and the Future of the Human Race: Will Machines Enhance or Replace Us?
Discover that the real power of AI is not its technology, but its capacity to reveal new dimensions in the human spirit.
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If You Could Ask For Anything You Want, What Would It Be?
Learn to distinguish between the superficial and the essential in our lives.
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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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How to Turn Liabilities Into Assets
Failure and loss can bring out either the best or the worst of us. Learn how our true character and strengths emerge when faced with an obstacle.
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Do You Like to Travel? – Israel/Three Weeks Workshop
Learn about the journey of Israel today. Discover new ways to look at your voyages, and how to discern the deeper patterns in the trajectory of your life.
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Are You Trapped?
Is there a way to reach heaven while keeping our feet firmly planted on the ground? Discover how a simple ladder can take us on a journey into eternity.
Read MoreIntrovert or Extrovert? A Jewish Perspective
The question of introvert versus extrovert intrigues us. Are we meant to be alone or thrive in a crowd? Do our preferences define us? We often grapple with these labels, trying to fit ourselves into neat boxes. But is this simplistic categorization truly reflective of the intricate tapestry of the human soul?
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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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4 Steps to Accepting Change
We are currently all experiencing daily discomforts and being faced with difficult challenges that cause worry, angst and fear. Are we equipped to deal with these changes and challenges?
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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.
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.
3 Daily Declarations that will Change Your Attitude and Behavior
Say these three life-changing declarations every morning and be confident that slowly, but surely, you too can change.
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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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The Two Main Things You Can Learn from Your Dreams
What can you learn from your dreams? Is there any merit in dream interpretation? According to the 3000-year-old wisdom of the sages, which presents a blueprint of the psyche …
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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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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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Your New Nightly Ritual
You must go to the root of the problem. If you’ve tried everything, then the root of your lousy mornings might be the way you went to sleep. It could be time to try a new nightly ritual.
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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.
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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Sleeping Tips
These three sleeping tips are based on the timeless wisdom of Kabbalah. They encompass the physical, spiritual, and emotional aspects of sleep.
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Mid-Life Crisis is a Myth
Life is one crisis after another. Mid-life is no different. Here is how to deal with it.
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Cosmic Sleep
Achashveirosh’s sleepless night set in motion a series of events that led to Mordechai’s rise, Haman’s downfall, and the salvation of the people of Israel.
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A Refreshing Death
Sleep is one of G-d’s greatest gifts to mankind- the ability to wake up to a new day free of yesterday’s mistakes and constraints.
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Life, Death and Reality
Discover a new perspective on death from the scope of spiritual reality. Learn how Torah operates within the confines of nature but is not limited by it.
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Inside Time: The Spiritual Meaning of Days of the Week
A Kabbalistic look at the spiritual meaning of days of the week, with an emphasis on Shabbat — the seventh day of the week. By Rabbi Simon Jacobson.
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A Day in the Life of a Jew
As Jews, however, we are also guided by a more subtle calendar, a more spiritual clock: the calendar and clock of history. As Jews, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are as central to our concept of morning, noon and evening as the sun’s arc across the sky; Adam, Moses and King David mark our year as prominently as the turning of the seasons; and the twelve sons of Jacob, progenitors of the twelve tribes of Israel, are as basic to our daily schedule as the twelve numerals etched on our clock-face or the twelve spiral-bound pages hanging on our wall.
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Winter: The Season of Rains
The calendar is more than a measure of time: it charts our inner life and our relationship with our Creator. Insight into the Hebrew season of rains.
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Growing Old: The Folly and Opportunity of Retirement
The weakened physical state of growing old is not a sentence of inactivity, but a challenge to find new–and superior–venues of achievement. Or how not to retire.
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Toldot: Beyond Life And Death
My granddaughter just arrived from another world, and has brought us a message of hope. Despite the tragic losses and senseless pain, beyond the incomprehension of it all, life is born yet again.
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Vayeitzei: Marriage: Destiny or Chance?
Is marriage predestined or dependent on your efforts? There are many opinions but all agree that though G-d’s predestined it we have the power to change it.
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Toldot: My Child
Every generation is part of an unbroken cycle of ‘fruit.’ It is through children that we create an eternal legacy, one which we are part of ourselves.
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Ki Tissa: Suffering
In Parshat Ki Tissa, Moses learns to be a partner with G/d and to see His face when He reveals it, even in suffering.
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