| By Shais Taub | 0 Comments
This guided meditation simulates the chasidic practice of “hisbobenus” contemplation. Rabbi Shais Taub gently guided you through various thoughts on the theme that G-d is the only true existence.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
| By Shais Taub | 0 Comments
A guided meditation just before the onset of Shabbos in order to get into a Shabbos frame of mind. (Delivered at the National Jewish Retreat.)
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
| By Shais Taub | 0 Comments
What is the deeper meaning of kaddish as well as the other Jewish customs connected with death, grief, and mourning? This talk describes the connection between traditional Jewish mourning practices and the kabbalistic view of the journey of the soul. The significance of shiva (seven days of mourning) and shloshim (thirty days) is described as corresponding to phases in the soul's transition away from embodiment. We also look at the meaning of observing a yarhzeit (anniversary of passing) and Yizkor (memorial prayer recited on holidays) from the perspective of honoring the soul's journey.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
| By Shais Taub | 0 Comments
Can you see your child as a soul?
In this guided meditation we try to align ourselves with the truth that our child is intrinsically worthy, infinitely worthy, and unconditionally worthy.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
| By Shais Taub | 0 Comments
Rabbi Taub addresses the Menachem Foundation’s Kinus Hamechanchos on their theme (The Advantage of Light from Dark) as it relates to Tu B’Av and seeing the potential within every child.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
| By Shais Taub | 0 Comments
Rabbi Shais Taub speaks to the 12th grade of Beis Rivkah High School about the meaning of visiting the Rebbe's Ohel.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
| By Shais Taub | 0 Comments
On the importance of seeing the uniqueness of every child. A special talk for parents and educators in honor of the shloshim memorial of 19-year-old Dina Leah Rosenzweig a"h.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
| By Shais Taub | 0 Comments
On the occasion of his father's yarhzeit, the Rebbe teaches a kabbilistic interpretation of the Mishnah studied on a yahrzeit:
"A needle which is placed on the step [leading down to a mikvah] in a cave, and the water is moved back and forth, as soon as a wave has passed over it, it becomes ritually clean."
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
| By Shais Taub | 0 Comments
What do parents do when a child just doesn't "fit the mold"? At the annual dinner for Legadel, a London UK organization that provides support to children who are not thriving in school, Rabbi Shais Taub presents words of encouragement and inspiration about how the job of parents is to cherish that which makes each child different rather than stifle it.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
| By Shais Taub | 0 Comments
How do we raise our daughters to want to commit their lives to Torah? We lift them up.
This talk, presented at the annual dinner of Beis Chaya Mushka Monsey, discusses the education of girls and young women in the context of two different types of self-sacrifice which correspond to the two holidays of Pesach and Shavuos.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
| By Shais Taub | 0 Comments
What incentives drive us to do mitzvos? What is the key difference between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation? And what does it have to do with the prohibition of "new flour"?
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
| By Shais Taub | 0 Comments
Rabbi Taub addresses parents at Beth Rivkah High School in Crown Heights, Brooklyn about how to raise emotionally healthy teens.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Recent Comments