Toward My Meaningful Life
A longtime expositor of the Rebbe's teachings, and author of Toward a Meaningful Life, Rabbi Simon Jacobson shares how he overcame his early skepticism and found his own calling in life.
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Rabbi Simon Jacobson is the author of the best-selling Toward a Meaningful Life: The Wisdom of the Rebbe (William Morrow, 1995), and the founder and director of the Meaningful Life Center.
Chana Weisberg is host of the Ordinary People, Extraordinary Stories podcast and curator of advanced learning experiences on Chabad.org. She lectures internationally on issues relating to women, relationships, meaning, self-esteem and the Jewish soul. She is the author of six books. Her latest book, Shabbat Delights, is a two-volume series on the weekly Torah portion.
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Wow! This Rabbi is brilliant and down to earth. Not a common thing.
Just a question. Am I missing something? I thought our mission statement is written in the Torah. And that is keeping Torah and mitzvahs. Here, however, it sounds like each individual person can decide what their mission statement is. What?! The Torah (G-d’s will) tells you what your mission is. Your can’t make up what you’re supposed to be doing in world. Your Creater tells you - in the Torah - what He has in mind for you. Any “calling “ you believe you have is limited to your own subjective opinion, it doesn’t necessarily reflect G-d’s view of the matter. You need to look in the Torah to find out the truth. So who cares what you feel your “calling” is? What if that’s not what G-d wants from you?
Please explain.