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Giving Unconditional Love
Rabbi Simon Jacobson gives a three-minute talk on the spiritual nature of unconditional love, and what it takes to give it.
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How One Inspiring Moment Can Change Your Life
Discover a new way to look at what you — and every person — can accomplish in a split second. How to see a world in a gain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.
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Ep. 225: Is the Rebbe’s Position on Zionism Different Than That of the Rebbe Rashab and Rebbe Rayatz?
Also in this episode: Chassidus Applied to the 2nd day of Rosh Chodesh Elul, Parshas Shoftim and the 4th Week of the Shiva D’Nechemta; If Adam and Eve are the ancestors of all mankind, how do we explain all the diversity of their descendants’ physical appearance? How to deal with loss? What is the difference between the Kabbalah of the Rama”k and of the Arizal? Part III
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Should You Retire?
With a touch of humor, this short talk by best-selling author and counselor-to-thousands Rabbi Simon Jacobson, cuts to the core of why retirement might look attractive, but isn’t always the healthiest choice. You never retire from life. Your whole life is valuable — from birth to old age.
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Ep. 224: How to Turn the Experience of Being Bullied into a Positive?
Also in this episode: Chassidus Applied to Rosh Chodesh Elul and the 3rd Week of the Shiva D’Nechemta; Which psychological streams are aligned with Judaism? What is the Rebbe’s opinion on buying life insurance? What is the difference between the Kabbalah of the Rama”k and the Kabbalah of the Arizal? Part II; Follow-up: Off the derech; Can we establish policy based on a chassidishe hergesh? Writing pidyon to other Rebbes
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Ordinary People Becoming Extraordinary
Discover how to look beyond the glitz and glitter — beyond the modern forces which, deliberately or inadvertently, blind us — and see the extraordinary within the ordinary, the unusual within the usual, the miraculous within the natural.
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Why You Should Never Say, “Why Me?”
“Why me?” lands people in a downward spiral of negativity. Learn productive alternatives that allow you to turn your bad experiences and pain into powerful, life-transforming changes.
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Ep. 223: Is a School Considered Lubavitch if it Is Behaving Counter to the Rebbe’s Directives?
Also in this episode: Chassidus Applied to Chof Av, the 2nd Week of the Shiva D’Nechemta, Parshas Eikev and Shabbos Mevorchim Elul; Can I write a pidyon to other Rebbes, or only to my own Rebbe? If my soul is Jewish (born to a Jewish mother), does that automatically make my body Jewish, even if my father is not Jewish? What is the difference between the Kabbalah of the Rama”k and the Kabbalah of the Arizal?
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The Longest Eclipse
Discover the deeper meaning of the moon as an archetype reflected in each one of us, and how the lunar cycles and eclipses illuminate and teach us extraordinary personal, spiritual and psychological lessons for our lives and our relationships.
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Know That You Don’t Know
Find out if you are limiting yourself intellectually and spiritually, and how you can harness the power of that which you do not know.
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