The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov Saacks: Recent Episodes
Yakov Saacks - The Chai Academy
Courses ranging from Jewish practice and history to marriage and parenting and every day Jewish life. Choose from many classes, taught live online daily.
Self Help Series: Confidence is a Key Part of God's Creation
Welcome to The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov Saacks. Our courses range from range from Jewish practice and history to marriage, parenting and every day Jewish life. Classes are added daily! Check out our complete library: thechaicenter.com/academy
Self Help Series: Gratitude Strategies
Welcome to The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov Saacks. Our courses range from range from Jewish practice and history to marriage, parenting and every day Jewish life. Classes are added daily! Check out our complete library: thechaicenter.com/academy
Self Help Series: The Importance of Not Dwelling in Darkness
Welcome to The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov Saacks. Our courses range from range from Jewish practice and history to marriage, parenting and every day Jewish life. Classes are added daily! Check out our complete library: thechaicenter.com/academy
Self Help Series: Self Help Series: God's Secret of Coexisting - Enhance any relationship
Welcome to The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov Saacks. Our courses range from range from Jewish practice and history to marriage, parenting and every day Jewish life. Classes are added daily! Check out our complete library: thechaicenter.com/academy
Self Help Series: Pros & Cons of Marriage
Welcome to The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov Saacks. Our courses range from range from Jewish practice and history to marriage, parenting and every day Jewish life. Classes are added daily! Check out our complete library: thechaicenter.com/academy
Self Help Series: How to Look at Stubbornness
Welcome to The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov Saacks. Our courses range from range from Jewish practice and history to marriage, parenting and every day Jewish life. Classes are added daily! Check out our complete library: thechaicenter.com/academy
Self Help Series: Managing & Transforming Pain, Part 2
Welcome to The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov Saacks. Our courses range from range from Jewish practice and history to marriage, parenting and every day Jewish life. Classes are added daily! Check out our complete library: thechaicenter.com/academy
Self Help Series: Managing and Transforming Pain, Part 1
Welcome to The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov Saacks. Our courses range from range from Jewish practice and history to marriage, parenting and every day Jewish life. Classes are added daily! Check out our complete library: thechaicenter.com/academy
Self Help Series: Conquering your Fears
Welcome to The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov Saacks. Our courses range from range from Jewish practice and history to marriage, parenting and every day Jewish life. Classes are added daily! Check out our complete library: thechaicenter.com/academy
Self Help Series: Be Yourself, Part 3
Welcome to The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov Saacks. Our courses range from range from Jewish practice and history to marriage, parenting and every day Jewish life. Classes are added daily! Check out our complete library: thechaicenter.com/academy
Self Help Series: Be Yourself, Part 2
Welcome to The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov Saacks. Our courses range from range from Jewish practice and history to marriage, parenting and every day Jewish life. Classes are added daily! Check out our complete library: thechaicenter.com/academy
Self Help Series: Be Yourself, Part 1
Welcome to The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov Saacks. Our courses range from range from Jewish practice and history to marriage, parenting and every day Jewish life. Classes are added daily! Check out our complete library: thechaicenter.com/academy
Now the heavens and the earth were completed and all their host.2And God completed on the seventh day His work that He did, and He abstained on the seventh day from all His work that He did.3And God blessed the seventh day and He hallowed it, for thereon He abstained from all His work that God created to do.
And God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the sky and over all the beasts that tread upon the earth. " And God said, "Behold, I have given you every seed bearing herb, which is upon the surface of the entire earth, and every tree that has seed bearing fruit; it will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and to all the fowl of the heavens, and to everything that moves upon the earth, in which there is a living spirit, every green herb to eat," and it was so. And God saw all that He had made, and behold it was very good, and it was evening and it was morning, the sixth day.
And God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kind, cattle and creeping things and the beasts of the earth according to their kind," and it was so. And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kind and the cattle according to their kind, and all the creeping things of the ground according to their kind, and God saw that it was good. And God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and they shall rule over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the heaven and over the animals and over all the earth and over all the creeping things that creep upon the earth." And God created man in His image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
And God said, "Let the waters swarm a swarming of living creatures, and let fowl fly over the earth, across the expanse of the heavens." And God created the great sea monsters, and every living creature that crawls, with which the waters swarmed, according to their kind, and every winged fowl, according to its kind, and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters of the seas, and let the fowl multiply upon the earth." And it was evening, and it was morning, a fifth day.
And God said, "Let there be luminaries in the expanse of the heavens, to separate between the day and between the night, and they shall be for signs and for appointed seasons and for days and years. And they shall be for luminaries in the expanse of the heavens to shed light upon the earth." And it was so. And God made the two great luminaries: the great luminary to rule the day and the lesser luminary to rule the night, and the stars. And God placed them in the expanse of the heavens to shed light upon the earth. And to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate between the light and between the darkness, and God saw that it was good. And it was evening, and it was morning, a fourth day.
And God said, "Let the water that is beneath the heavens gather into one place, and let the dry land appear," and it was so. And God called the dry land earth, and the gathering of the waters He called seas, and God saw that it was good. And God said, "Let the earth sprout vegetation, seed yielding herbs and fruit trees producing fruit according to its kind in which its seed is found, on the earth," and it was so. And the earth gave forth vegetation, seed yielding herbs according to its kind, and trees producing fruit, in which its seed is found, according to its kind, and God saw that it was good. And it was evening, and it was morning, a third day.
And God said, "Let there be an expanse in the midst of the water, and let it be a separation between water and water." And God made the expanse and it separated between the water that was below the expanse and the water that was above the expanse, and it was so. And God called the expanse Heaven, and it was evening, and it was morning, a second day.
And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. And God saw the light that it was good, and God separated between the light and between the darkness. And God called the light day, and the darkness He called night, and it was evening and it was morning, one day.
The first of the Five Books of Moses, relates the story of creation and Noah's Flood, and describes the lives and deeds of the Patriarchs, Matriarchs, and the Twelve Tribes. Genesis ends with the Israelites' descent to Egypt and Jacob's passing.
Two deeds merit reward both in this world and the world to come: Visiting the Sick and Escorting a Bride. Find out why.
Karl Marx was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary. Born in Trier, Germany, Marx studied law and philosophy at university. He married Jenny von Westphalen in 1843. Due to his political publications, Marx became stateless and lived in exile with his wife and children in London for decades, where he continued to develop his thought in collaboration with German thinker Friedrich Engels and publish his writings, researching in the British Museum Reading Room. His best-known titles are the 1848 pamphlet The Communist Manifesto and the three-volume Das Kapital (1867–1883). Marx's political and philosophical thought had enormous influence on subsequent intellectual, economic and political history. His name has been used as an adjective, a noun, and a school of social theory.
Chaim Weizmann was a Russian-born biochemist, Zionist leader and Israeli statesman who served as president of the Zionist Organization and later as the first president of Israel. He was elected on 16 February 1949, and served until his death in 1952. It was Weizmann who convinced the United States government to recognize the newly formed state of Israel.
Samson Refael Hirsch was a German Orthodox rabbi best known as the intellectual founder of the Torah im Derech Eretz school of contemporary Orthodox Judaism. Occasionally termed neo-Orthodoxy, his philosophy, together with that of Azriel Hildesheimer, has had a considerable influence on the development of Orthodox Judaism.
Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.
Louis Brandeis was an American lawyer and associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky, to Jewish immigrant parents from Bohemia (now in the Czech Republic), who raised him in a secular home.[3] He attended Harvard Law School, graduating at the age of 20 with the highest grade point average in the law school's history. Brandeis settled in Boston, where he founded a law firm (that is still in practice today as Nutter McClennen & Fish) and became a recognized lawyer through his work on progressive social causes.
Henrietta Szold was a U.S. Jewish Zionist leader and founder of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America. In 1942, she co-founded Ihud, a political party in Mandatory Palestine dedicated to a binational solution.
Lev Davidovich Bronstein[b] (7 November [O.S. 26 October] 1879 – 21 August 1940), better known as Leon Trotsky[c] (/ˈtrɒtski/),[1] was a Ukrainian-Russian Marxist revolutionary, political theorist and politician. Ideologically a communist, he developed a variant of Marxism which has become known as Trotskyism.
Born to a wealthy Ukrainian-Jewish family in Yanovka (present-day Bereslavka in Ukraine), Trotsky embraced Marxism after moving to Nikolayev in 1896. In 1898 Tsarist authorities arrested him for revolutionary activities and subsequently exiled him to Siberia. He escaped from Siberia in 1902 and moved to London, where he befriended Vladimir Lenin. In 1903, he sided with Julius Martov's Mensheviks against Lenin's Bolsheviks during the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party's initial organisational split. Trotsky helped organize the failed Russian Revolution of 1905, after which he was again arrested and exiled to Siberia. He once again escaped and spent the following ten years working in Britain, Austria, Switzerland, France, Spain and the United States. After the 1917 February Revolution brought an end to the Tsarist monarchy, Trotsky returned to Russia and became a leader in the Bolshevik faction. As chairman of the Petrograd Soviet, he played a key role in the October Revolution of November 1917 which overthrew the new Provisional Government.
Abraham Isaac Kook (Hebrew: אַבְרָהָם יִצְחָק הַכֹּהֵן קוּק; 7 September 1865 – 1 September 1935) also known by the acronym הראי״ה (HaRaAYaH);[1] was an Orthodox rabbi, and the first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of British Mandatory Palestine in the Land of Israel. He is considered to be one of the fathers of religious Zionism, and is known for founding the Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva.[2]
Hannah Szenes (often anglicized as Hannah Senesh or Chanah Senesh; Hebrew: חנה סנש; Hungarian: Szenes Anna; July 17, 1921 – November 7, 1944) was a poet and a Special Operations Executive (SOE) member. She was one of 37 Jewish SOE recruits from Mandate Palestine parachuted by the British into Yugoslavia during the Second World War to assist anti-Nazi forces and ultimately in the rescue of Hungarian Jews about to be deported to the German death camp at Auschwitz.[2]
Leo Max Frank (April 17, 1884 – August 17, 1915) was an American factory superintendent who was convicted in 1913 of the murder of a 13-year-old employee, Mary Phagan, in Atlanta, Georgia. His trial, conviction, and appeals attracted national attention. His lynching two years later, in response to the commutation of his death sentence, became the focus of social, regional, political, and racial concerns, particularly regarding antisemitism. Today, the consensus of researchers is that Frank was wrongly convicted and Jim Conley was likely the actual murderer.
Elie Wiesel was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.