Great Mystics
If our souls are embers, smoldering within, then a Great Mystic is the bellow, fanning that ember until it burns with Divinity.
At times it is hard to hear; at times it is difficult to see; and at times it is a struggle to believe. This is why sprinkled throughout time and space there are people who open our eyes, unplug our ears, remove our barriers. They take heaven and give us a taste here on earth and they inspire us to do the same. These are the leaders, the teachers, the shepherds – these are the Great Mystics of existence.
Chassidic Melodies And Their Deeper Meaning
Rabbi Simon Jacobson, April 2018, Washington, DC
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Heartwarming Chassidic Stories and Melodies: Part Two
Be captivated by mesmerizing tales and melodies that will transport you beyond time and space. You will be transformed in unimaginable ways.
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Heartwarming Chassidic Stories and Melodies
Join Rabbi Jacobson in this intimate setting and experience the warmth and soul expressed — like nowhere else — in Chassidic stories and songs.
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If You Want to Change Your Life, Meet This Man
Over 200 years ago lived a man who revolutionized spirituality and psychology. Quite strangely, most people have not heard of him.
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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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My Rebbe: A Living Legacy
Rabbi Simon Jacobson speaking about the Lubavitcher Rebbe, in honor of the 18th anniversary of Gimmel Tammuz.
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To See Through the Eyes of a Mystic – Pre-Tisha B’Av Workshop
Take a journey into the inner worlds of reality. Gaze through the eyes of the Arizal as depicted in his mystical works.
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Are You Emotionally Intelligent?
Discover the secrets to resolving our emotional dissonance, finding inner peace and gaining true emotional intelligence.
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Biography of the Rebbe Rashab
The Rebbe Rashab authored the most comprehensive documents on mysticism, elegantly outlining the mystical infrastructure and its application to our lives.
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Rosh Hashanah Stories
Four Hasidic stories. Rosh Hashanah stories from Hasidic masters including the Baal Shem Tov and Rabbi Levi Yitzhak of Berditchev.
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Hemshech Samech Vov
Hemshech Samech Vov is a series of 61 discourses by The Rebbe Rashab. In this introduction, Rabbi Simon Jacobson explains the concepts of chassidus used by The Rebbe Rashab in Hemshech Samech Vov.
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The Alter Rebbe
The Alter Rebbe, also known as Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, is the founder of Chabad Chassidus and is considered to be one of the great Jewish mystics.
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Beyond Paradise
A story about the Baal Shem Tov and his quest to reach the Holy Land, his nearly failed Passover, and the stranger who changed everything.
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Informed Debate
A Chassidic story of Rabbi Naftali of Ropshitz inspiring two argumentative combatants to criticise themselves instead of each other.
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Playing G-d
A Chassidic story of the disciples of the Maggid of Mezerich, including the Alter Rebbe, discussing how, in their opinions, G-d should run the world.
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The Rashbi
The Rashbi is the author of the classic Kabbalistic work, the Holy Zohar (‘Book of Splendor’), first published in 1558. This is a fact sheet on the Rashbi.
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Hemshech Tzaddik Dalet
Nothing is real. That is the point proved by the chassidus of Rabbi Yoseph Yitzchak Schneerson in his series of discourses called Hemshech Tzaddik Dalet.
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The Book of Light
Kabbalah discusses not financial disputes and livestock trades, but spiritual worlds, supernal attributes and forms of divine energies.
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24,000 Plus One
The “deeds, teaching and works” of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai are the ultimate rectification of Rabbi Akiva’s disciples’ tragic failure to achieve the proper synthesis of love and truth that would make their love true and their truth loving.
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The Shaloh
Fact sheet on the Shaloh, Rabbi Isaiah HaLevi Horowitz. His major works: Commentary on Zohar; Commentary on Tur Shulchan Aruch and more. Learn about the times and life of the Shaloh.
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The Ramban
The Ramban’s commentary on the Bible is multi-dimensional, weaving the “wisdom of the truth” (mysticism) into understanding the Bible. This is a fact sheet on the Ramban.
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The Arizal
Rabbi Isaac Luria, the Arizal, revealed a powerfully elegant mystical structure which deciphers the secrets of Kabbalah from the beginning of time.
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Gimmel Tammuz: The Silent Sun
Gimmel Tammuz is the day that the Lubavitcher Rebbe passed. It is also the day that Joshua miraculously stopped the sun. Rabbi Simon Jacobson discusses the connection between the two events.
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The most famous of Rabbi Akiva’s teachings is the saying: “ ‘Love your fellow as yourself’—this is a fundamental principle in Torah.” How was it that his disciples were deficient in this area? Find out from this translated discussion by the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
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Devarim: The Laugh
Life is a continuous cycle of troughs and crests, pain and joy, and in order to fully appreciate both, one must learn to ride the waves.
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Tzav: Believers
Using personal anecdotes as well as Chassidic stories, Rabbi Jacobson examines the different types of believers in light of his previous article on atheists.
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