Prayer
To pray is not to beg. To pray is to interweave with the Creator in high frequency conversations.
Talk is cheap. Well, it depends to whom you talk. Prayer is invaluable because you are talking to a Higher Reality that is priceless. Prayer is part conversation, part acknowledgment, part realization, part meditation, and part actualization. Prayer induces swaying the same way flame ignition induces flickering. Prayer is a ladder, embedded in earth, touching heaven. The entire molecular structure of existence hinges upon this ladder. It is here that the rungs of the world are righted.
The Difference Between a Blessing and a Prayer
Join the Meaningful Life Center’s Rabbi Simon Jacobson for this concise, motivating video discussing the distinction between a blessing and a prayer.
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Meditation
“I don’t know how to meditate, I just can’t get my mind to quiet down. Can you recommend a meditation technique for focus?”
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The Jewish New Year: Renewal, Sanctity, and Joy
The Jewish New Year and High Holiday season is ultra rich with layers of opportunity to peer deeply into our lives, and come out renewed and empowered to take on our life challenges.
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place
When confronted with a challenge, the best approach to overcome it is to keep moving forward.
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The Seder Plate: A Microcosm of Your Psyche
The Seder plate serves as a reflection of both your purpose in life and your greatest potential, and contains in its structure multiple layers of symbolism.
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How to Pray
You were robbed of your own spiritual connection to your higher power. It’s time for you to reclaim it.
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The Kabbalah of Yom Kippur
The Kabbalists and Chassidic masters teach us that the soul as it were is comprised of five dimensions. Learn: How deep is YOUR soul?
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The Face of G-d
From overhearing the conversation between G-d and Moses in Parshat Ki Tissa, we learn how to have a true intimate relationship with our Creator.
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Chanah’s Prayer
Chana’s prayer taught us how to pray on Rosh Hashanah and throughout the year. This essay is a deep look into Chana’s prayer as the source of Jewish prayer as we understand it.
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The Materialistic Spiritualist
Is materialistic spirituality an oxymoron? When striving to carry out the will of his Creator, is man justified in requesting the fulfillment of his personal desires? A discussion of Rosh Hashanah and the nature of man’s soul.
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On the Essence of Leadership
As Moses leads the Song of the Sea after the Jews escape the Egyptians, he demonstrates true leadership, for within Moses the soul of Israel was one.
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Shoftim: Elul Whispers
Elul is the month of love and compassion. As we enter the month we ask how we understand this in light of the reality around us filled with terror and war?
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Soldering Souls
The Baal Shem Tov teaches us that The fervor of prayer is a welder’s torch that fuses matter and spirit, heaven and earth, the mortal and the eternal.
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The Constructive Statement
Every mitzvah we perform is a testimony as to the essence and purpose of the created existence.
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Miriam’s Song
Learn the spiritual meaning of Miriam’s Song, at the Exodus from Egypt. Based on an address by the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
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Fire: A Narrative by Rabbi Pinchas Reizes of Shklov
Rabbi Pinchas Reizes of Shklov tells a story of a miracle on Simchat Torah.
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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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Matot: What Can I Do About the Situation in Israel?
Let us create a true revolution. Let us reconnect to our Divine mission. Let us move heaven and earth with our actions. We have been promised that when we do, we will save the universe – literally.
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Loneliness: A Personal Essay
A personal essay on the power of prayer to fight loneliness. Learn to eliminate your loneliness through spiritual prayer.
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Spiritual Awakening and My Father’s Siddur
This is a personal story of a Jewish woman’s spiritual awakening. It is heartwarming, and a tale of reconnecting to older generations. A story of teshuvah.
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Yom Kippur: The Kittel
Comforts and freedom often lead to complacency, but Yom Kippur reminds us simultaneously of our troubles and our triumphs, encouraging us to reflect on the mysterious cycle of life.
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Father: I Will Ask You
Rabbi Jacobson tells a story about his own Passover growing up, intertwined with a discussion about the four questions and the experience of life.
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Vayeirah : The Mission Continues
The topics discussed include G-d’s plans “behind the curtain,” the power of prayer, and each individual’s mission in this world.
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Shelach: Ronald Reagan
Learning from President Ronald Reagan & the sin of the spies in Parshat Shelach: hope & confidence breeds confidence; self-doubt & fear demoralizes & taints
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Behaalotecha: Mitchum
Parshat Behaalotcho discusses kindling the menorah that the flames rise on their own: recognizing G-d in our own lives by saying “im yirtzeh Hashem”.
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