Business, Work & Money
When you equate your self-worth with your bank account, the result is anxiety. But when you equate money with divine gifts, the result is an invaluable blessing.
Have you transformed your job into meaningful work? The majority of our energy is spent on something that most of us abhor – work! There is nothing as depressing as a rainy Monday morning, when you know you are going to spend the next ten hours in a cubicle. So why do we do it? Why do we work? To make money, of course. But what is it about money that makes our hearts go ka-ching? Is it really worth distilling all that blood, sweat and tears into a few crisp dollar bills? The answer is an emphatic yes! You can transcend the monotony and enjoy meaningful work!
Money: Vice or Virtue?
This is an open discussion with Simon Jacobson, author of the best-seller Toward a Meaningful Life, on how to elevate materialism, work, and money.
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Money: A Blessing or a Curse?
When you put money in perspective and recognize why it was given to you, it becomes a blessing instead of a curse. And by using your wealth for charitable and philanthropic purposes instead of spending it all on the desire of the moment, your money becomes eternal.
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Thinking & Stinking at the Harvard Business Review
Bernard Starr, Ph.D., a professor of psychology, criticizes the Harvard Business Review’s endorsement of dirty business practices.
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Mega Corporations & Individual Freedom
Do mega corporations really control our lives? Rabbi Simon Jacobson, author of best-selling Toward a Meaningful Life, talks about how to free your mind.
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Is There More to Life Than Your Job?
Is there more to life than your job? Work is an inevitable part of life. Here’s an open discussion on how to make work more meaningful.
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Competition: How Free is the Free Market?
Does G-d have anything to do with the free market? Is there enough money to go around? How can a person approach business competition in a dignified way?
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A Business Proposal
By the decree of divine providence, man wanders about in his travels to those places where the sparks that are to be extracted by him await their redemption. The Cause of All Causes brings about the many circumstances and pretexts that bring a person to those places where his personal mission in life is to be acted out.
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Noah’s Flood
Practical Kabbalah on Noah’s Flood, which commenced on the 17th of Cheshvan in the year 1656 from creation, and ended on Cheshvan 27 of the following year.
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A Day in the Life of a Jew
As Jews, however, we are also guided by a more subtle calendar, a more spiritual clock: the calendar and clock of history. As Jews, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are as central to our concept of morning, noon and evening as the sun’s arc across the sky; Adam, Moses and King David mark our year as prominently as the turning of the seasons; and the twelve sons of Jacob, progenitors of the twelve tribes of Israel, are as basic to our daily schedule as the twelve numerals etched on our clock-face or the twelve spiral-bound pages hanging on our wall.
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Vayigash: Can Capitalism Survive without a Soul?
We must balance our economy of consumption with higher values. Let us learn from Joseph how to reclaim our mission statement: What are we? Who are we? What is this company called America?
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