Meet Rabbi Simon Jacobson, a rabbi with a vast reach. On YouTube he has over 15 million views and his book, Toward a Meaningful Life, has sold over 400,000 copies. Rabbi Jacobson grew up in Crown Heights, Brooklyn in a home he describes as "full of ideas." Beginning in 1979, Rabbi Jacobson headed a team of scholars that memorized and transcribed entire talks the late Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson gave during the Sabbath and holidays as writing and tape recording were not permitted. Today, Rabbi Jacobson leads the The Meaningful Life Center which the New York Times describes as a “Spiritual Starbucks.” The Center bridges the secular and the spiritual through a wide variety of content. In this episode, we cover a lot of ground including how best to approach game-changing technology, why community is so important and the preeminence of the soul. --The outro music was produced by Michael Greenberg.

Explore the concept of Daas with Rabbi Mendy Schochet.

Meet Rabbi Dr. Abadie and learn about his journey from being expelled from Lebanon to being invited by the United Arab Emirates to serve as the Senior Rabbi of the Jewish Council of the Emirates. Along the way, learn about the immense changes taking place in the Arab world as a result of the Abraham Accords.

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The outro music was produced by Michael Greenberg.

Meet the professor who brought Jewish studies to Japan. For over two decades, Professor Taggar-Cohen has been educating thousands of students at Doshisha University in Kyoto on everything from the Talmud to Tel Aviv.

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The outro music was produced by Michael Greenberg.