Simon Jacobson

Q&A with Rabbi Simon Jacobson on the Jewish perspective on relationships and marriage, from an event hosted by Met@Chabad, which educates and facilitates dating and marriage with Jewish values for young Jews.

When did humankind begin to see – experience – the universe as one unified entity, instead of a composite of myriad pieces?

Looking back fifty years to the beginning of the leadership of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, of righteous memory, we explore his unbelievable impact and continuing influence throughout the world. (From a cable show in 1999)

Every month has its own unique energy and power. Elul is the month of love and relationships.

Rabbi Simon Jacobson discusses the definition of biography in Judaism, and what it means to write a biography of a Rebbe, in the context of three biographies published recently.

The opening word of the Ten Commandments sets the tone and captures the essence of all the commandments and of the entire Torah.

Imagine a discussion between a refrigerator and electricity. The refrigerator is plugged in and it's cooling food. Now, suddenly, the plug is pulled and the refrigerator says to the electricity, "Where do you go when the plug is pulled?"

Can we fashion a menorah out of our own flesh and blood? …It takes eight steps.

Rabbi Simon Jacobson relates that a few years after his father introduced the writer Natan Yellin-Mor to the Rebbe, he received an envelope from the ailing writer. Inside was a request that its contents be published after the writer’s death.(Early 1980s)