Sexuality
Why is sexuality so powerful? Intimacy is a celebration of vulnerability; it touches the softest part in each person, the most private and fragile part of a human being.
Most of us desire true intimacy, but we are afraid to experience true vulnerability, to lose control. But this makes it difficult to ever experience true intimacy, for being comfortable with your vulnerability is the ultimate intimacy. The question is: How can we really let go? We can be distracted and misled by the physical aspects of intimacy, pursuing it only to satisfy our selfish needs. Or we can understand sexuality and intimacy as the truly meaningful forces that they are.
The Destruction and Restoration of Dignity
He is still controlled by the dark demon within. He lives in world of shadows, seemingly always on the run. Escaping what? Himself above all. Why they call it “substance abuse” seems odd; it’s not abuse of the substance, but of yours.
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Vaetchanan: Comfort My People
Many tears indeed can be shed for our children whose lives are prematurely “hijacked” by the demons of abuse and drugs; bright futures suddenly aborted; robbed of their possibilities; injured psyches.
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Finding Your Transcendent Soulmate
There are many other questions that need to be answered when searching for your soul mate. Here are some of the requirements necessary to achieve a transcendent relationship. It is always best to have a close trusting friend or mentor that can help you objectively assess your particular relationship.
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Sexuality or Intimacy?
Everyone has a sexual nature, everyone has a need for sexuality, everyone has a sexual personality, and everyone has been shaped, in one way or another, in their sexual preferences, in how they express and experience it, whether inside or out of marriage today. Everyone listening will have a very strong opinion in the matter. This discussion is coming from a perspective that is very defined, yet extremely flexible and surprisingly free-spirited.
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What Do Nuclear Energy & Love Have in Common? A New Look at Intimate Relationships
How powerful is intimacy and sexuality? In human experience it is as powerful as nuclear energy. Like nuclear power, it also has the potential of becoming the most devastating. When two people come together, they have the power to create a new life – or to behave so abusively that one or both people suffer a trauma of a lifetime.
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Homosexuality
Rabbi Simon Jacobson, author of the best-selling “Toward a Meaningful Life” discussed homosexuality and Judaism live on the radio. This is a transcript.
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A Marriage Made on Earth
Man was created male and female initially—as a “single being with two faces.” In marriage, the divine analogue is made whole again. Essay by Rabbi Simon Jacobson based on a letter from the Rebbe.
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Passover: Faith and Flesh
Did you hear about Israel’s latest plan to polish its image for the American public? Girls. Yes, you heard that right….
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Vayeira: Where is Moshiach? In Sodom
The theme, in this week’s Torah portion, the destruction of the wicked cities, Sodom and Gomorrah, a deceptively complex story…
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The Value of Beauty
A frank dialogue that offers a refreshing perspective on the deep value of human beauty.
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Separating the Sexes
Keeping teenage guys and girls apart is a wise approach to their future.
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Arise and Shine
Of all abuses’ devastating effects the most damaging of all is the violation of human dignity. Causing deep shame, abuse demoralizes the human spirit and strips a person of his G-d-given birthright – the sense of self-value and self-esteem.
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Harvey, Meet Abraham
So how does a person find the strength to control his/her cravings, when the road to satisfaction seems wide open because one’s ‘power’ seems stronger than any downside? When you’ve successfully closed the door and drawn the shades, and believe you have an open opportunity for self-gratification, how do you find the strength to pull back your reins?
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The “Weinstein” Epidemic
What are the deeper implications of the hunting spree? How and why has the public outrage zeroed in on a single target: Harvey Weinstein and those like him.
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Quiz: Rate Your Personal Boundaries
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Six Ways Love Makes Life Better
As we continue to search for the secret formula to finding love and not losing it, here are several love words to help us unlock the heart to the mystery of love. Love makes life better!
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Why Do We Fall in Love?
Why do we fall in love? What lies behind the attraction between the sexes? In seeking to make sense of our sexuality we must look to its origins. The human race is in essence one entity, a male-female singularity. When man and woman come together and unite in a marital union, they recreate the divine image in which they were both formed as one.
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Comfort My People
Left with no one else to blame, the child erroneously sees himself as the culprit. And this self-loathing and sense of inadequacy further erodes the child’s confidence. It’s not your fault. Don’t allow yourself to be invalidated. You have all the strength necessary to pick up the pieces and rebuild your life.
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In The Friend Zone
Rabbi Simon Jacobson advises a “nice guy” on how to get out of the friend zone.
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Love is in the Air: Elul in Jerusalem
Learn how the Hebrew month of Elul teaches us how to start anew and open up a new chapter of love in our lives.
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Gender Identity
“Why are some people created with a gender that they feel is wrong for them?” Rabbi Jacobson addresses gender issues, which are spiritually complex and mysterious. He looks at gender from the perspective of the Jewish mystics.
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Mistaken As Gay
A viewer asked: “I am a man who often gets called gay. I have never had a gay relationship. I actually do like women, and hope to meet the right woman one day. It gets hard to always be perceived as gay. Women don’t even consider me as a potential date. How can I meet the right woman under these circumstances?”
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The State of Sexuality in Our Times: What the Recent Harassment Scandals Teach Us About Ourselves
Please join Rabbi Jacobson as he addresses the bigger story behind this appalling behavior — what it tells us about life today, what it teaches us about our sexual perspectives.
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The Politics of Sexuality
After all that has been said and written about the Senate’s confirmation proceedings, discover, in this refreshing and groundbreaking talk, a new perspective that will shed light on the core issues and its relevance to our lives.
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Jewish Spirituality & Recovery from Addiction
Join Rabbi Simon Jacobson for a talk on Jewish spirituality and the road to recovery from addiction.
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Quarantined and Addicted: How Can I Break Free?
Discover how the root of addiction is driven by the need for love and connection. Human beings crave attachment. When we lack healthy attachments, we turn to unhealthy ones. Learn how to transform the dysfunction into the functional; how to gain relief of emptiness and demons by redirecting and channeling cravings toward transcendent goals.
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Finding the Balance: Panel Discussion on Recovery from Sex and Love Addiction
What are the components that lead to a balanced recovery from Sex and Love addiction, or any other addictive disorder? Addiction does not occur in a vacuum, and our panelists will explore how recovery can fill the various voids created by acting out on sex and love addiction.
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How to Be Intimate
The sacred union of intimacy and sexuality is when two people love each other and that love permeates not just the bedroom, and not just their bodies, but it permeates their psyches, their minds and their hearts, and above all, their souls.
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Who’s In Control: Men or Women?
Explore the spiritual roots of masculine and feminine energy. By retracing our steps to the genesis of these archetypes and of the gender split, we discover ways to realign our identities, and realize how the two forms of energy are really part of one unifying reality.
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Battle of the Sexes
Enter into the spiritual world of woman and man. What is the inner dimension of their tension and innate opposition? Can these two forces fuze together, or are they forever destined to resist one another?
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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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