Stories
Breaking Down the Highest Level of Empathy
Rabbi Simon Jacobson breaks down the highest level of empathy by telling a story of the Mittler Rebbe.
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A Chance Reading and Meeting
I picked up a book randomly sitting at my table and opened to any page, the words I read changed our life.
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Reach. Not Preach.
Brazilian educator founded school based on Lubavitcher Rebbe’s timeless wisdom found in the Book Toward a Meaningful Life by Simon Jacobson.
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More than the Eye Can See: A Journey from Darkness to Light
In the past few years I have discovered that Judaism is more than the eye can see. It is a journey from darkness to light; the light of the Torah.
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Suicidal Thoughts
The words I read in Toward a Meaningful Life pierced through me and opened up a world of new possibilities and serene peace.
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Spiritually Thirsty
I was spiritually thirsty. Toward a Meaningful Life put my spiritual house in order and then everything else in my life fell into place.
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Celebrating My Birth 60 Years Later
The book, Toward a Meaningful Life by Simon Jacobson, helped me commit my life and coming year with intention and meaning.
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Kaparot
Kaparot is one of the most solemn observances of the Days of Awe. In the early morning hours of the day before Yom Kippur, we take a rooster (for a man) or a hen (for a woman) and, circling it above our heads, say three times: “This is my exchange, this is in my stead, this is my kaparah (atonement); this rooster shall go to its death, and I shall go on to good, long life and peace.”
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