Meet Rabbi Simon Jacobson, a rabbi with a vast reach. On YouTube he has over 15 million views and his book, Toward a Meaningful Life, has sold over 400,000 copies. Rabbi Jacobson grew up in Crown Heights, Brooklyn in a home he describes as "full of ideas." Beginning in 1979, Rabbi Jacobson headed a team of scholars that memorized and transcribed entire talks the late Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson gave during the Sabbath and holidays as writing and tape recording were not permitted. Today, Rabbi Jacobson leads the The Meaningful Life Center which the New York Times describes as a “Spiritual Starbucks.” The Center bridges the secular and the spiritual through a wide variety of content. In this episode, we cover a lot of ground including how best to approach game-changing technology, why community is so important and the preeminence of the soul. --The outro music was produced by Michael Greenberg.
