Featured Lectures by Rabbi YY Jacobson

Days of Love or Days of Trauma? - Lecture to Fresh Start Recovery Center with Q & A

Sunday, September 28, 8:30 pm ETRabbi YY Jacobson presents for Fresh Start Alumni with Q&A on Sunday, 6 Tishrei, 5786, September 28, 2025. Fresh Start Retreat, their flagship program, Fresh Start Retreat, is a 7-day intensive retreat helping participants understand their past to create a brighter future. https://jewishfreshstart.com/home

The Gift of Allowing Your Struggling Children to Crack You Open - Raising Challenging Children

My Love Will Be Stronger Than Your Defiance: What I Learnt From Rabbi Shimon Russell About Raising Children

My Journey of Personal Self-Discovery - Rabbi YY on Podcast “Totally Unexpected”

You Can’t Teach Today Without Doing Deep Personal Work; Moving from the Frequency of Exile to RedemptionChavie Bruk interviewed Rabbi YY Jacobson on her podcast, “Totally Unexpected,” 3 Tamuz, 5785, June 29, 2025. Chavie begins the conversation by asking Rabbi YY how he manages his output of classes and public appearances while balancing personal responsibilities. Rabbi YY shares that although he has always maintained a heavy workload, he eventually realized that constantly jumping from one thing to the next can be a distraction. He shares a personal anecdote from when he was teaching a class to teenagers, and his own teenage children found it amusing that their father would have any relevant advice for teens. That was one of the catalysts for embarking on his own journey of self-discovery and reshaping his approach to teaching. Chavie and Rabbi YY discuss the importance of practicing an embodied Judaism and recognizing when ego or the self takes control of the task at hand. Rabbi YY describes what it was like to memorize six to seven hours of the Rebbe’s lectures every week as a young student, and how that continues to impact him more than thirty years later. Chavie brings up how the concept of Moshiach can sometimes feel elusive. Rabbi YY offers that today, we can taste what it feels like to live in a Messianic era by letting go of the things we cannot control—the frequencies of ego, fear, insecurity, feeling overwhelmed or disassociated—and recognizing that we have the ability to touch coherence and oneness, which is the frequency of trust, surrender, faith, and love. These are the higher frequencies of redemption, which are not pulled down by the gravity the earthiness, the frequency of guilt and shame.

Time for a Jewish Renaissance -- Within and Without; Trump and the Jews - Rabbi YY on Kiddush Club Podcast

What the World Needs Most from the Jewish People: What Would the Rebbe Say Today About Israel?"We've all seen his videos, heard his Torah, but nothing could prepare us for the larger-than-life Rabbi YY in person, in full force, and off the cuff. We had the opportunity to hear from Rabbi YY his thoughts on the world, politics, and the current state of worldwide Jewry - a topic that is sometimes overlooked. We hope you enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed recording." To watch this and all other Kiddush Club podcasts: KiddushClubPodcast

Pray Like Never Before: How to Surrender and Go Into Flow - Michal Ashman & Rabbi YY Jacobson

What to Do With the Distracting Thoughts? Why Is Davening So Boring?This Zoom interactive experience, a lecture followed by a Q&A session on prayer, was organized by the Chabad House of Johannesburg, South Africa, on Thursday, 2 Sivan, 5785, May 29, 2025. Michal Ashman is the author of "What Would You Do If You Weren't Afraid."