The Importance of Home and Family
When a family shares principles and values, they grow together. The home and family become a foundation for the family’s shared sense of purpose. The ultimate beauty in a home is its emotional and spiritual warmth. There are many ways to beautify your home spiritually.
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Thanksgiving: When Home Doesn’t Feel Like Home
Millions of people experience dread, anguish, worry, and ambivalence about having to go home for Thanksgiving. Read open advice from Rabbi Jacobson and an assortment of people on how to deal with it.
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Abusive Relationships
Can we really get over abusive relationships? Is it a situation that creates a victim forever? Can we free ourselves from abusive situations?
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Can Children Survive Parents who Claim to Know the Absolute Truth?
A discussion with Stephen Dubner, author of Turbulent Souls, about growing up in a fundamentalist religious household.
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Teenagers: The Rebellion of Youth
To satisfy the needs of our teenagers in today’s society, we must first recognize that their restlessness and hunger for meaning is not material but spiritual in nature, and that only spirituality can feed spiritual hunger. To fight a spiritual war, they must be equipped with spiritual weapons. This is a new approach to teenage rebellion.
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Vayeitzei: Marriage: Destiny or Chance?
Is marriage predestined or dependent on your efforts? There are many opinions but all agree that though G-d’s predestined it we have the power to change it.
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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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Ki Tissa: From Rome to Jerusalem
One person seems insignificant compared to the whole universe, yet G/d still cares about every detail of His world.
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Vayera: G-d Said to Abraham: Kill Me a Son
Let us learn from Abraham and Isaac. When your love is infused with dedication to that which is beyond you, to the eternal – then you and your family too become eternal.
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