Education

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.

Home Schooling

“Does home schooling create social problems for children?”

Back to School. Back to Normal?

Join Rabbi Jacobson as he addresses, in his disarming and inimitable way, our current disruptions. Instead of reacting to the symptoms with short term solutions, learn how to turn this challenge into an opportunity.

Thanksgiving: The Responsibility to Give

Are we human beings takers or givers? Is life about you, or about you serving a greater cause? The secret to true happiness is this: The more you give the happier you will be. The more you take the unhappier you will be.

Is Teenage Rebellion a Bad Thing?

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Rebellion can be the healthiest thing for a human being — a pure energy that inspires a person to not give up,, to refuse to tolerate injustice, to not go along with an idea just because everyone else is.

Education: How to Think; Not What to Think

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Education is not just learning the skills to make a living; it is learning to understand life itself. Perhaps the greatest influence over one’s life is one’s education.

Happiness: How To Be Happy and Master Your Emotions

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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.

Special Needs Children

“Why did God make special needs children?”

Education: Shaping Life

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This article is an excerpt from “Toward a Meaningful Life”. It emphasizes the importance of moral education for children, and places responsibility on parents and educators for providing that education.

Give Me Your Soul

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It is time to create a revolution – to refocus our priorities and invest our energies into the most premium of all our gifts: Our children. And remember: It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Special Children

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An email exchange between Rabbi Jacobson and the mother of a bi-polar son illuminates the concept of special children and their unique strengths.

The Education Crisis

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Undoubtedly education of the young is the key to preserving spiritual identity. Today, nothing less than a revolution is necessary in our education systems.

Childlessness

Weekly Op-Ed • 9 Comments

A reflection of the pain of childnessness and the power to overcome through alternative ways to give birth to new souls.

Are You Responsible for Other People’s Reactions?

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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?

The Pure Ones

Weekly Op-Ed • 9 Comments

The innate purity within children and their effortless connection to the Divine is examined, despite popular scientific theories and thought to the contrary.

Light

Weekly Op-Ed • 7 Comments

Many lessons can be gleaned from Parshat Behaalotcho, three of which I learned from my father: light, independence and perseverance.

In The Beginning

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While many people focus on the debate between evolution and creation, they often overlook a more important question about responsibility to a Creator.

Nine Ways To Raise A Moral Baby

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My biggest priority as a new mom is to raise my baby with personal dignity and respect for others. It translates to teaching my baby morals from day one.

Chanukah celebrates what?

The word “Chanukah” comes from the word chinuch, which means “initiation.” Chanukah celebrates the renewal of the service in the Holy Temple after it was liberated from the Greek defiler, purified, and rededicated as the seat of G-d’s manifest presence in our world.

Leadership: Customized, Consistent, Friendly and Firm

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The Rebbe advises consistent efforts with a balance of friendliness and firmness in education.

The Believer

The Lubavitcher Rebbe is a wise man, a learned man, but above all, he is a believer. And to meet a believer is an altogether different experience.

The Lamplighter’s Credo

While many of the Torah’s laws are time- & place-specific, their significance is always eternal & universal, such as kindling the menorah in the Holy Temple

Lighting Instructions

The menorah represents man’s potential to “kindle lamps”: to illuminate within his own self, in his fellow man & in the material resources at his disposal.

The Long Pole

Aaron is the prototype for man’s responsibility for the spiritual elevation of his fellows, which reflects his role as kindler of the menorah in the Temple

Educated Quests

The goal of education is for a person and his teachers to develop his personal moral vision–his perceptions of right, wrong, truth and falsehood–toward increasing degrees of synonymity with the ultimately objective moral vision: life as envisioned by its Creator.

G-d in the Classroom

With rising crime rates, juvenile drug use, and conflicts between people, the value of religious education cannot be underestimated. This letter from the Lubavitcher Rebbe expounds on the value of religious education in these trying times.

What’s Wrong With Our Educational System?

What’s wrong with our educational system? This article is a transcript of a candid and critical look at the American educational system in light of the tragic school shooting in Littleton, CO.

The Rebbe on the Six-Day War

Three times in our generation G-d granted us an opportunity for the beginning of the Redemption but they were missed & it is the Jewish leadership to blame.

What is the Calling of Our Time?

As we approach Rosh Hashana: Here is a good question to ask yourself:
If you were able to have a glimpse of G-d’s thoughts,how would they look?

Superfluous Legacy

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Sometimes knowing who needs what can be a bit confusing.

Reading Right

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Learning Jewish law is a process. Read carefully and correctly so as not to be hasty in judging others.

Life in the River

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Thirty-four hundred years after Egyptian slavery, Jewish children are still being forced into the Nile, a material lifestyle.

The Chase

Each and every creation, no matter how material and mundane, has at its heart a spark of holiness that needs to be elevated.

Spiked Chassidism

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The fifth Rebbe of Lubavitch teaches us the importance of learning, self-development and growth in spiritual matters.

The Third Millennium