MeaningfulLIVE
Rabbi Simon Jacobson puts current events and personal challenges into a historical and psychological context, presenting a path forward for our society.
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Does My Job Define Me?
Your work is only what you do, not who you are. It is time to learn how to discover your true identity and discover the difference between form and function, means and ends, and how to strengthen your character and assert who you are — your true inner self.
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The Kabbalah of Health
Physical fitness is not arbitrary or optional; it is part of your responsibility to yourself. On the other hand, worshipping the body is destructive. The body is a vehicle for the soul; its value lies there, not as an end unto itself.
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How to Build a Healthy Home
Our home and family are our nest, the center of our life, the hub from which all our daily experiences extend. How can I assure that I’m creating a home, a nest, that provides emotional and spiritual support for my family? How can I turn my home into a source of energy, hope and love?
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Is Love Selfish or Selfless?
What is love? Love is the single most necessary component of human life, and the foundation of healthy human interaction. It is both giving and receiving, it allows us to experience another person and lets that person experience us.
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How to Be Intimate
The sacred union of intimacy and sexuality is when two people love each other and that love permeates not just the bedroom, and not just their bodies, but it permeates their psyches, their minds and their hearts, and above all, their souls.
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Why Get Married? The Kabbalah of Marriage
Two people may love and care for each other but what bonds temporal human beings eternally? What is necessary for two strangers with different personalities and backgrounds, who differ biologically, emotionally, and psychologically, to have an everlasting union?
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Is Teenage Rebellion a Bad Thing?
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.
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Education: How to Think; Not What to Think
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.
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Dear Inner Child: Where Are You?
Where did our inner child go? How can we access her? That child – the holiest part of your heart and soul – represents your greatest potential and your chance to soar through the sublime.
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Do I Matter
Discover that by virtue of your very birth you are absolutely indispensable and irreplaceable. And everything you do matters now and forever. Change the way you see yourself.
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What is a Soul?
Have you ever burst into tears for no apparent reason? That is the soft voice of your soul, crying out for attention, asking to be nourished.
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Is God Black or White? | Why Diversity Matters
What is God’s plan in all of this? After all, the Divine Architect is the One Who created us as diverse human beings, people of different races, colors and cultures.
