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How the Three Levite Families and Their Various Forms of Labor Symbolize Three Dimensions in Jewish History and in Each of Our Lives

Harmony, Expulsion, Frustration: How the three Levite families and their various forms of labor symbolize three dimensions in Jewish history and in each of our lives.

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“If it is a clear day on the festival of Shavuos, sow your fields with wheat.” A farming tip, or an insight into the essence of wisdom?

What We Ask of Life; What Life Asks Of Us. "If it is a clear day on the festival of Shavuos, sow your fields with wheat,” said Achetofel to his family before taking his own life. A farming tip, or an insight into the essence of wisdom?

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How Kabbalah Transformed the World

The Secret of the Bow & Arrow: How Kabbalah Transformed the World

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How the Five Jewish Holidays Address the Five Most Painful Experiences of the Human Journey

The five challenges of living: Loss, illness, moral Impurity, finances & uncertainty. How the five Jewish holidays address the five most painful experiences of the human condition

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What an Agricultural Law Teaches us about Psychological Serenity and Historical Endurance

This women's class was presented on Tuesday Parshas Acharei-Kedoshim, 6 Iyar 5777, May 2, 2017, in Monsey, NY.

How do you maintaining your identity during stressful times? What an agricultural Talmudic law about fruit teaches us about psychological serenity and historical endurance. 

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How to Criticize the People Around You: Why Only a Kohen, Not a Sage, Can Decide Who Is a Leper

When Can You Expel a Child From School?- How to Criticize the People Around You

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A Journey into the Five Layers of Torah Study, and the Five Layers of Human Identity

Please Pass the Salt - A Journey into the Five Layers of Torah Study, and the Five Layers of Human Identity

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Tanya - A Tale of Two Souls #123: From 1997-2002, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Jacobson presented a weekly Tanya class in the Heichal Menachem Center in Boro Park, Brooklyn, NY. The series included 150 classes, covering the first section of Tanya, Likkutei Amarim, which comprises 53 chapters. This class was recorded in thewinter of5761,2001

How Do We Reconcile the Opposing Views on the Meraglim? Understanding the Inner Workings of Torah

This is a text-based class on a Maamar, a Chassidic discourse, said by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, on Shabbos Parshas Shlach, 26 Sivan, 5745, June 15, 1985 (a few days before the presenters Bar-Mitzvah). Rabbi YY Jacobson presented this class to congregation Beis Shmuel in Brooklyn, during the week of Parshas Shlach, 12-14 Sivan 5771, June 14-16, 2001.

The class explores the startling contrast between two interpretations of the spies -- that they were wicked men, who lacked faith on G-d; and that they were spirtiual giants fearful of losing their deep relationship with the Divine in the desert. How do we reconcile these two diametrically opposed perspectives?

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