Science & Technology
Technology taps the Divine forces present in nature from the moment of creation.
The computer age and the information revolution have given all of us enormous power and the ability to reach virtually anyone anywhere, at any time. Yes, technology allows us to live more comfortably and work more efficiently, but do we understand how it makes our lives more meaningful? Developments in science and technology teach us to be more sensitive to the intangible and the sublime: the forces behind computers are invisible, and yet we clearly recognize their awesome power and reach. Similarly, we must come to accept that the driving force behind the entire universe is intangible and sublime, and we must come to experience the transcendent in everything, beginning with ourselves.
Is Technology Ruining Your Life?
Join best-selling author Rabbi Simon Jacobson for a short, frank talk about technology — a wake-up call to get up, get out, and live your life!
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Technology: What Is Our Human Responsibility?
Do you know the difference between taking care of your body and taking care of your soul? Have you ever stopped to compare the things you do in your daily routine that maintain the wellness of your body, versus the things you do for soul wellness?
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The Kabbalah of Global Warming
What does the Torah and Kabbalah tell us about global warming? Where should we stand and how should we react? Do our personal actions even make a dent with the billions of people on this planet?
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Technology: Vice or Virtue?
Technology allows us to live more comfortably and work more efficiently, but can we understand how it makes our lives more meaningful? Has it improved or worsened our relationships? Are we controlling it or is it controlling us?
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The Spiritual Antidote to the Coronavirus – Part I
With coronavirus gripping the world, what deeper lessons can we learn from this global epidemic? The story of Purim teaches us the antidote to the “coronavirus” of Haman and Amalek — the crown of toxicity — back then, as well as today.
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The Spiritual Antidote to the Coronavirus: A Call to Action – Part II
With coronavirus gripping the world, what deeper lessons can we learn from this global epidemic and what is the spiritual antidote to the disease?
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The Longest Eclipse
Discover the deeper meaning of the moon as an archetype reflected in each one of us, and how the lunar cycles and eclipses illuminate and teach us extraordinary personal, spiritual and psychological lessons for our lives and our relationships.
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Gematria For Beginners: The Art and Science Behind Jewish Numerology
The ultimate class – applying ancient teachings to tackling current events – provides lessons to transform your personal life.
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Rosh Hashana Cosmology: The Kabbalah of the Big Bang Theory Part 2
Join this historic journey back to the virtual moment of the Big Bang. Discover the mind blowing fact: the Big Bang isn’t just a thing of the past; it will be renewed this coming Sunday night on the birthday of the first Big Bang, when all of existence reverts to its first moment.
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The Kabbalah of the Big Bang
Does the Big Bang Theory have its roots in religious and mystical teachings? Or, as some have argued, has it deemed the notion of a Creator superfluous?
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Are Torah and Psychology Compatible?
Learn how Frankl’s work differs and is superior to the Freudian and Adlerian psychology.
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The First Rosh Hashana: Where it All Began
By understanding the potency of the annual “big bang” which takes place on Rosh Hashana — the collective birthday of the universe and the human race — learn how to tap into this “brain” power to shape and transform your coming year.
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The Light Within the Dark
Discover how the festival of lights reveals for us secrets of our souls and how to tap into the deepest light of all, the light within the dark.
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Can There be a Shadow Without Light?
Challenge yourself not to be deceived by darkness. Let us shine a light on the darkest place in our soul, in our lives and in the world.
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Do You Know Your Shadows?
Travel down into your psyche and discover the enormous power of your darkest secrets. Learn how to unleash these forces to transform your life.
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Do You Know How to Interface?
Discover the secret of how to create harmony in your life: Connect different and conflicting forces by discovering their inner unifying field of energy.
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The Two Floods
In our lives we have both options: A deluge of waters that will overwhelm and destroy us; or a deluge of Divine knowledge that submerges us in its watery embrace.
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To See the Divine
To see the Divine, you learn to savor every sight, every sound, every taste, every touch, every smell.
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The Pure Ones
The innate purity within children and their effortless connection to the Divine is examined, despite popular scientific theories and thought to the contrary.
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Is Logic Logical? Our Changing World
A look at logic and superalogic in our world and why we feel connected to each.
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In The Beginning
While many people focus on the debate between evolution and creation, they often overlook a more important question about responsibility to a Creator.
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The Sukkah as a Metaphor for Life
The transitory Sukkah reminds us that we are just travelers in this impermanent material world; we are spiritual beings on a material journey, not material beings on a spiritual journey.
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Vayigash: 2006
As we conclude the calendar year – my 50th on earth – it’s an appropriate time to examine the past year’s events, and attempt to place them in perspective.
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The Democratic Astronaut
This article is a discussion about the power of acting on our personal preferences. Our personal preferences have far-reaching effects which we do not see.
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The Rocket Age
This article is a spiritual look at the rocket age. It addresses what the rocket age can teach us about living meaningful and fulfilling lives.
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Torah & Geometry
The following is a freely translated excerpt from a letter by the Rebbe dated Sivan 25, 5712 (June 18, 1952) about science, Torah and truth…
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Vayelech: A Year In Perspective
As we enter the new year, this essay reflects on the past year, the lessons learned, challenges encountered and meaning made…
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Vayeishev: Psychology Today
The Alter Rebbe’s take on popular psychological opinion- tackling Freud and Darwin from a Torah perspective.
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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?
Ki Teitzei: I Am To My Beloved and My Beloved Is To Me
In the last few centuries different approaches developed to find some way to relieve the tension between faith and modernity. This essay considers this idea
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Torah and Geometry
The science of geometry resembles the Torah as an exact and applied science, and serves as a model that shows the difference between Torah and human wisdom.
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Ki Teitzei: United Or Ununited States ?
Vital life issues about the nature of the universe and our place in it are answered in the opening verse in this week’s Torah portion…
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Reeh: Boundaries
This week’s Torah portion deals with blessings and curses. In the face of world tragedies, how does the Torah explain the reconciliation of both?
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The Colors of Blood Cells
The deeper significance of the colors of the various blood cells.
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Technology: Vice or Virtue
A spiritual look at the vices and virtues of technology. Is the Internet bad? Are cellphones a sign of doom and gloom? Nope! Just use tech for the good.
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The Future
The future holds redemption: Redemption is the light at the end of the tunnel. Redemption is the belief that this world was created by design….
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How the Alter Rebbe Changed the World
Over two centuries ago Rabbi Schneur Zalman presented us with an invaluable model of life that can be appreciated now more than ever. Freud and his colleagues may be the fathers of psychology today. But the Alter Rebbe is the true father of the psychology of tomorrow.
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Rosh Hashana: New Year 5772
If we only allow ourselves to pull ourselves a bit back and out from our enmeshed lives, we can transcend many of our doubts, and see new opportunities, as an old world gives way to a new one.
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Terumah: The World Is Not Flat
What is Israel – that sliver of land surrounded by hundreds of millions of hostile neighbors – to do amidst all the storms thundering around it?
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Passover: Steve Jobs and Passover
The iPad mania reflects the design and marketing genius of Steve Jobs and his gifted team. But it also reveals the gaping vacuum in our lack of spiritual visionaries.
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Vaeira: Haiti
Rabbi Simon Jacobson reflects on the humanitarian response to the Haiti disaster, and how it reflects a shift in global spiritual engagement.
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Netzvim-Vayelech: Blackberry Unplugged
By pressing a button in one corner of our lives we set in motion a series of events that reverberate around the world; how you can hold infinity in the palm of your handheld device.
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Matos-Massei: One Small Step
If our “one step” on the moon can humbly remind us that the internal “moon” of our own inner malchus/dignity remains intact, and that it can actually experience rebirth and renewal, than this indeed is “one giant leap for mankind.”
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Shemini: Shame On You
Our challenge – and choice – is to use technology and all the gifts we were blessed with not merely for personal gain and self-interest, or for entertainment and killing time, but for bettering the world in which we live.
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Vayakhel-Pekudei: Faith at Harvard
The debate among academics about Harvard’s core curriculum sheds light on longstanding tensions between scientists and people of faith.
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Tazria-Metzora: Divine Containers
The world increasingly witnesses a union of form and function and spirit and matter. This concept is examined through the lens of kabbalah and Chassidus.
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Vayakhel-Pikudei: Intimate Light
Follow the Divine light from emerging during the Exodus to finding a home in the Temple. The Rebbe Rashab elaborates on the lessons hidden within it.
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Behar Bechukotai: Global Dimming
Present day conflict has a direct source in biblical schisms of our forefathers, and in the ongoing war between the spiritual and the material.
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