How to Live on Your Own Terms
One of the biggest obstacles to living on your own terms is the effect that parents, teachers, and the culture at large have had on you. You must look carefully and honestly at which parts of yourself are authentic, and which parts you acquired as a reaction to the outside forces around you.
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Who You Are Should Define What You Do
Rabbi Simon Jacobson talks about discovering your true identity. Learn 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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How to Free Yourself from Your Problems
Are you so “stuck” that you’ve stopped trying to get rid of your problems and have given up? Have your problems caused you to lose respect for yourself? There is a four-part path to freedom from your problem or problems.
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Your Deepest Secret Isn’t What You Think It Is
We all have secrets — the question is what you think is your deepest secret. What does it look like? Is it dark and shameful — the ugliest parts of your personality that only you know about, or is it something bright and beautiful?
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Basic Soul Awareness
In this short video, Rabbi Simon Jacobson hits upon the fundamental axiom of personal growth — that confidence and the ability to transcend the past depends on truly knowing your inner self.
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Can The New Year Actually Change You? Pre-Rosh Hashana Workshop
Please join Rabbi Simon Jacobson in this Chai-Elul / pre-Rosh Hashana workshop for a fascinating discussion on the nature of human nature, dissecting the anatomy of our wiring, what shapes us and what it would take to reshape us.
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Reverse Hypocrisy
A great Torah scholar works to make his inner self in line with the way he presents himself.
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Genuine Hypocrisy
Abraham understood that no human acknowledgment of G-d can ever be “hypocritical.”
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Father and Son: Abraham and Isaac
Despite the fact that Abraham and Isaac embodied different approaches to life, the father and son had a respectful and symbiotic relationship. Learn a quick lesson on parents and children from this Torah story.
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Free Choice
The ultimate criterion of “free choice” is not “Is it determined?” but “What determines it?” Every choice is determined by something, be it a rational motive or an intuitive flash of no traceable origin. True choice is when one’s course of action is determined by, and only by, the very quintessence of self.
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