Always Look For The Things You Didn’t Plan For
Rabbi Simon Jacobson discusses the value of fortuitous events — big and small. Discover how to manifest opportunities by paying attention to the things you didn’t plan for.
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The Magic of One Human Connection
How could one small interaction with one person change your life? Human connections are magical, able to channel blessings and to open doors that you would never expect. Even one word could “tip the scales” of destiny.
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Keep On Going
Even if something bad happened to you yesterday, today is a new day with new possibilities — so keep on going.
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Always Be Prepared for the Unknown
When you approach everywhere you go in your routine life as an opportunity for magic, your whole outlook on life changes.
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Beyond Structure
Purim: It’s not our logic & plans that run the world but a higher force that may manifest in random experiences within which lies the greatest power of all.
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A Feast and a Fast: The Fast of Esther
With their joy the Jews rejected their uniqueness as a nation under the special protection of G-d. To save the Jews Esther knew they had to reconnect to G-d
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Reeh: Israel Oh Israel
In the face of war, what lessons can be learned from the speech of Iran’s Ahmadinejad delivered last September before the General Assembly of the UN?
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Shoftim: Katrina And Gaza
Rabbi Jacobson’s answer to a question about the link between the Israeli evacuation from Gaza with the catastrophic devastation of by Hurricane Katrina.
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A Jew in Madagascar
A freely-translated excerpt from a letter the Rebbe wrote in the fall of 1961 to a Jewish woman living in Madagascar.
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The Third Wagon
A story of Rabbi Shneur Zalman as he flees from Liadi in the third wagon of an escort procession from the Czar.
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