Rabbi Yosef Y. Jacobson

One of America’s premier Jewish scholars in the areas of mysticism and Torah, Rabbi Yosef Y. Jacobson is a senior fellow at the Rabbinical Seminary Chovevei Torah and spiritual leader of Congregation Beis Shmuel in Brooklyn. A warm and motivational speaker, Rabbi Jacobson has lectured on Chassidic teachings to Jewish and non-Jewish audiences in six continents and twenty states and published scores of articles on Jewish thought. Rabbi Jacobson served as a member of a select team that prepared the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s addresses for publication. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Yiddish-English weekly, the Algemeiner Journal.

Why Me, G-d? Where Is G-d When It Hurts?

By Rabbi Yosef Y. Jacobson

Open a newspaper anywhere, any day, and you will see headlines screaming of pain and sadness. Since the days of Job, man has asked the same question over and over: Why me, G-d? We may never comprehend G-d, but we should know that G-d, Who understands the purpose of pain, feels the intensity of our suffering; every tear we shed becomes His.

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Validating Torah Through Science?

By Rabbi Yosef Y. Jacobson

This video is an excerpt from a Crossfire panel at the National Jewish Retreat.

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Is There a G-d? Who Needs G-d?

By Rabbi Yosef Y. Jacobson

In the modern era, religion has come under harsh attack. After all, so much extremism, intolerance, fundamentalism and war has been associated with religion. Discover the Jewish approach: Is it unscientific to embrace G-d? Who Even needs G-d? And can there be right and wrong without a God?

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