Teenage Years
What most young people are searching for is a meaningful cause.They are overflowing with a mixture of adrenaline and confidence — “I want to change the way the world works,” teenagers often think. “I can change the world.” Adults, burdened with the pressures of everyday life, convince themselves that the world just is the way it is, but young people cannot tolerate such resignation. This is the constant conflict between the two groups: young people abhor the status quo, while adults’ lives revolve around it.
Teenagers: The Rebellion of Youth
To satisfy the needs of our teenagers in today’s society, we must first recognize that their restlessness and hunger for meaning is not material but spiritual in nature, and that only spirituality can feed spiritual hunger. To fight a spiritual war, they must be equipped with spiritual weapons. This is a new approach to teenage rebellion.
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Bar Mitzvah: An Unreasonable Source
Thirteen years is the age at which the Jewish male becomes bar mitzvah (“son of [the] commandment”). At this point in his life, his mind attains the state of daat—the maturity of awareness and understanding that makes a person responsible for his actions. From this point on he is a “man,” bound by the divine commandments of the Torah, individually responsible to G-d to fulfill his mission in life.
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Bar Mitzvah: The Baseball Game
A heartwarming story about a bar mitzvah boy who talks about baseball with a very special Rebbe. Adulthood though the metaphor of baseball.
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My Encounter With The Rebbe: The Baseball Game
The Rebbe discussed baseball with a bar-mitzvah boy, and had a lifelong effect.
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Rebellious Youth
Today’s children are rising up against their elders, but in a positive way.
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The Student Anti-Violence Walk Out: A Spiritual Perspective On The Power Of Youth
Learn how the purity of youth – unadulterated by the cynicism of material life – has the power to change worlds. We’ll call it the youth revolution.
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Is Teenage Rebellion a Bad Thing?
Rebellion can be the healthiest thing for a human being — a pure energy that inspires a person to not give up,, to refuse to tolerate injustice, to not go along with an idea just because everyone else is.
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The Secret Language of Teenagers
The language barrier between adults/parents and teens can be just as confusing and bewildering as two people meeting from different countries. Join Rabbi Jacobson to decipher the secret language of teens and learn how to properly communicate.
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Educating Ourselves and Our Children about Healthy Sexuality and Intimacy
Rabbi Simon Jacobson in Conversation with Dr. Yocheved Debow: Ancient Wisdom for Modern times. Educating Ourselves and Our Children about Healthy Sexuality and Intimacy in this Challenging World.
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Back to School. Back to Normal?
Join Rabbi Jacobson as he addresses, in his disarming and inimitable way, our current disruptions. Instead of reacting to the symptoms with short term solutions, learn how to turn this challenge into an opportunity.
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