Relationships

Drawing upon some well known ideas articulated in the best-seller Men are form Mars and Women are from Venus, this lectures presents the Jewish view and the lighter side of relationships.

This humorous but serious presentation on love and relationships will entertain and enlighten you - and will surely make you smile.

Without kindness love has no body, without respect love has no spirit, without sanctity love has no soul. Three ingredients to everlasting love.

One of the primary qualities necessary in marriage is humor; the ability to laugh at oneself. Humor is very important in marriage for it makes us loveable.

Intimacy for Dummies: A light-hearted look at a subject that has caused so much heart break.

Understanding the components of love gives us a deeper understanding of the emotion itself. It also explains the essential connection between love and our humanity, to love is to be a “mentch”.

A proper relationship is a blessing, yet people often seem to struggle to get theirs right. Here are five common obstacles that people face in relationships and some practical tips to avoid them.

After all the books and advice columns offering to explain intimacy, there is still one ingredient missing, without which our relationships are just not what they're meant to be.

Weaving the humorous and practical, learn down to earth tips to attain happiness in marriage.

At the giving of the Torah at Sinai we entered into a relationship with G-d – marriage. What is the nature of this relationship and how does it apply to human marriage between husband and wife?

Kabbalah’s formulation of the ten soul powers – the make-up of the human psyche – sheds light on the differences between men and women to help better our relationships.

What does Judaism say about marital intimacy? Introduce meaning and sanctity into your marriage with the beautiful observances of mikvah. This class is the sixth lecture of a six-part series titled ‘The Essentials,’ which introduces the foundations of Jewish life and living.

Have we gone too far in our defiling the human body? Discussing sexuality today in our “new world”.

We all want love. We know it fulfills a basic need in the human experience. Without it we feel miserable and with it we feel elated. But what is it?

Harmony is necessary when two people with different personalities want to learn to live together. But how is it created?

Man's need for respect and woman's need for appreciation

There are two kinds of love: a pleasurable love where one feels good and content and then there’s a compelling love where one feels motivated and compelled to do something. The latter, may be the core and heart of a relationship.

The similarities between marriage on earth and the marriage of G-d and the Jews, reveal the Divine nature of both these unions. Our relationships with G-d and spouse demand modesty, humility and a sense of propriety. These are the building blocks of all intimate relationships.

A Kabbalistic understanding of relationships, marriage and our individual role within them. Learn the Torah understanding of a relationship and how marriage is not about two halves coming together, but two complete wholes which create a new entity whilst still remaining individuals.

Marriage may be a good idea all by itself. However G-d prefers to make it a mitzvah. He wants to be our partner in marriage. This makes marriage far greater than a human affair.

An insight into the unspoken awe of the sanctity of women that can be seen in all the laws of family purity and Mikvah.

Making life more exciting and existence less significant enables us to live more fully and allows us to let other in our life more fully. But what is the difference between life and existence?

In what way do we dismiss our existence? How does it affect our relationship with our parents, spouse and children? What is teenage rebellion all about and how does the difference between existing and living explain it?

The three primary relationships in life

The circumstances in which a baby is conceived contributes greatly to the quality, nature, character and health of the child.

Rabbi Yaffe teaches the Kabalistic perspective on human interaction, from the most intimate of relationships to the most extrinsic, including the most fundamental relationship; the relationship with oneself.

Rabbi Yaffe teaches the Kabalistic perspective on human interaction, from the most intimate of relationships to the most extrinsic, including the most fundamental relationship; the relationship with oneself.

When G-d instructs us on how to get divorced, He is demonstrating the qualities we need for a good marriage. He wants us married and to the very person to whom we are married. Yet if you can't do it, He personally supervises the divorce.

Discussing with today’s youth the spiritual and pragmatic ingredients that infuse intimacy, love and marriage with purpose, meaning and holiness from the Torah perspective.

Discussing with today’s youth the spiritual and pragmatic ingredients that infuse intimacy, love and marriage with purpose, meaning and holiness from the Torah perspective.

Discover profound Kabbalistic insights on the deeper meaning behind love and intimacy.