Soul Vitamins: 3-Minute Videos

You Were Sent to Earth With a Mission

Your soul was sent to Earth with a purpose. Are you living up to it? If you want to change your life, start with that question.

Redeeming Negativity

For most of us, negative feelings and experiences are something we are taught to repress or to react to. A revolutionary idea is to, instead, use negativity for positive ends.

What Is Kabbalah All About?

According to Kabbalah, the spectrum of human experience is divided into seven emotions and qualities (known as the Sefirah). The sefirah (represented by the tree of life) not only outlines the different parts of your emotional life, but is the very spiritual DNA of the entire universe. By studying it, you’ll unlock the fundamental building blocks of existence.

We All Come From One Place

The antidote to divisiveness and to cognitive dissonance is to acknowledge that we all come from one place. We all share one soul. This is practical Kabbalah.

Bad Mood Remedy: Commitment to a Cause

Join Rabbi Jacobson for this short, inspiring video discussing the importance of commitment, and how it can help you to transcend your perceived personal limitations.

The Problem With Being a Good Person

Join Rabbi Jacobson for this short, inspiring video discussing the importance of both being and doing when it comes to being a good person.

Anything Beyond Survival Is Spiritual

Rabbi Simon Jacobson discusses the sphere beyond material existence — without bringing religion into it. Discover what spirituality is, and how you probably are having more spiritual experiences than you realize that you are.

Humiliation: The Spirituality of Embarrassment

Discover why nothing is wrong with you, and in fact why it is quite positive, to feel humiliated. In Judaism, enlightenment does not come from being indifferent. Rather, experiencing embarrassment is a sign of being emotionally healthy.

Do You Live a Life of Quiet Desperation?

Staying in our comfort zones leads to what Thoreau called “lives of quiet desperation.” “Quiet desperation” is when we begin to resign ourselves to the circumstances of our lives.

Are You Insecure?

Are you insecure? Here are three criteria by which to find out.

Is Fashion Avant-garde?

While the innovations of the soul are unlimited and eternal, fashion choices are limited by what is available.

A Lesson from Trees: Determination

Trees have the innate ability to work around challenges. Likewise, challenge brings out the deepest strengths in a person.