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What deeper significance does the coronavirus have, and what spiritual antidotes can counter its impact on us?
7 Weeks To a Better You – Week 4: Endurance
In life even when you are committed to great things there will be ups and downs, twists and turns along the way, and it is the level of your endurance, your conviction, that will be the key to success in achieving the objectives you set out to do.
Read MoreWill There Ever Be Peace in the Middle East?
Will the fighting in the Middle East ever end? What will it take to achieve peace in the Holy Land? Please join Rabbi Jacobson in this provocative presentation of a radically new approach that combines peace out of strength and a bold vision of the future.
Read MoreWhat a Year It Has Been…
A year like this does not come very often. Disruption on every front. Uncertainty hanging over us like a dark cloud. What will the fall bring? What will the future be like? In this special pre-Rosh Hashana talk, Rabbi Jacobson offers powerful lessons and tools to face our current challenges.
Read MoreCan You Prove God’s Existence?
Before we try to prove God’s existence we must first establish: How do we define God? What is considered to be legitimate proof? Discover a fresh new way to look at the oldest and most fundamental topic of all: God.
Read MoreThe Zodiac: Is My Life Predestined?
Are we pre-wired programmed machines, like the entire universe, governed by the deterministic laws of nature? Or do we humans have the ability to transcend the parameters of our defined structures?
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreRise 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.
Read MoreElephants and Donkeys: Where Are the Humans?
Join Rabbi Simon Jacobson in this eye-opening talk, as he finds insights and direction from a most surprising place: the very origins of the political parties association with the donkey (Democrats) and elephant (Republicans).
Read MoreWhat 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.
Read MoreAre 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.
Read MoreCoal 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.
Read MoreThe Jewish Response to Racism
Cities are burning across the U.S., filled with people protesting racism. What is a healthy and legitimate response? Discover what 3800 years of time-tested history and wisdom teaches us about growing through oppression, and becoming the greatest possible people we can be.
Read MoreWhere Are Our Leaders?
A true leader provides a higher purpose to life and its challenges. While addressing the immediate crisis and mobilizing the best and most efficient possible teams to handle the challenges on the ground, a real leader offers the people a long-term vision, a strong and resolute voice, resonating with moral and spiritual clarity.
Read MoreHow 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.
Read MoreBringing Sinai Home
Special pre-Shavuos class and Yizkor program and discover how this year, we have a unique and unprecedented opportunity to bring Sinai home and transform our lives like never before. In the moving Yizkor program learn how to connect to the eternal souls of your loved ones.
Read MoreCan 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.
Read MoreQuarantined 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.
Read MoreCan You Be Alone?
Quarantine is exposing us like never before. Stripped of so many of our otherwise conventional support systems — our workplace, our social circles, our cafes, restaurants, theaters, stadiums, our travel plans and vacations — we are left now to our bare internal resources searching for stimulation.
Read MoreRaising Children in Times of Uncertainty: What to Teach our Sons and Daughters
In this time of crisis and upheaval we actually have an unprecedented opportunity to shape, educate and inculcate into our children indispensable strengths and tools that will serve them for the rest of their lives.
Read MoreStay Home: Discover the Center of Your Universe
Discover the emotional and psychological significance and power of your home. A home is much more than a shelter and respite from the hostile world.
Read MoreDo 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.
Read MoreWhen Your Reality Is No Longer Real
Today’s global pandemic has upended people’s entire realities. Whatever we thought was real and reliable just a few weeks ago, has now been destabilized and stripped away from us. Our schedules, our jobs, our economy, our plans, our vacations, our children’s routines — virtually every aspect of our lives is no longer what it was. And what will tomorrow bring?
Read MoreCoronavirus: How Should We React?
The unprecedented global Coronavirus pandemic is effecting literally every person on earth, and disrupting every sector and industry. How do we address the emotional and psychological toll this is taking on us? How can we prevent this craziness from not driving us all mad?
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