BOOKS BY RABBI ELIYAHU YAAKOV

~Human By Choice: A Kabbalistic Path To Self Help

~Shabbos Insights of the Maharal

~The Trees In The Forest: Jewish Living In The Context Of Kabbalah

DESCRIPTIONS

Human By Choice: A Kabbalistic Path To Self Help ($10)

Human By Choice: A Kabbalistic Path To Self Help can be summed up as ‘The 7 Habits meets Kabbalah’.

Joy is the experience of actualizing who you really are.

It is the person who lives by his principles even when it’s tough who gains our respect.  It is the person who keeps his calm and composure in times of stress that we admire.  Human By Choice is an intimate conversation outlining a path for each of us to become that person.

Throughout the book, Rabbi Eliyahu Yaakov – experienced teacher and counselor – draws on Kabbalistic principles to bring perspective to the modern social climate.  With explanatory precision, Rabbi Eli communicates abstract ideas in a down-to-earth style to address everyday and not-so-everyday life questions in a manner accessible to beginner and advanced reader alike.

In Human By Choice, Rabbi Eli takes the reader on a 5-step journey to personal actualization:

1. Individuality & Personal Value

2. Character Advancement & Meaningful Living

3. Implementing Principles & Personal Accomplishment

4. Actualizing Your Potential Self & Embodying Life Goals

5. Personal Harmony & Communal Interdependence

Human By Choice has  the makings of a life-changer for anyone searching for happiness, love, fulfillment, wholeness, or themselves.

Shabbos Insights of the Maharal ($15)

Shabbos Insights of the Maharal is a compilation and translation of inspirational Torah thoughts by the Maharal of Prague, one of the leading Jewish thinkers and Kabbalists of the Middle Ages, on the Shabbat Birkon.  This is a must-have for anyone looking to make their Shabbat meal experience a more meaningful one.  Included within the book is the original Hebrew text of the bentcher side-by-side with a translation by Rabbi Avraham Sutton, with the Maharal commentary running along the bottom. (Targum Press)

The Trees In The Forest: Jewish Living In The Context Of Kabbalah ($10)

Often, institutions of Jewish learning will have two separate classes – one for Jewish philosophy and one for Jewish law, and the student is left wondering what one has to do with the other. What does the manner in which God created the world have to do with how I wash my hands and put on my shoes? In The Trees In The Forest, Rabbi Eliyahu Yaakov ventures to apply the grand esoteric themes and worldview of Kabbalah to the intricate nitty-gritty details of Jewish law thereby infusing daily Jewish living with added inspiration and meaning.

Excerpted from the Introduction to The Trees In The Forest

While Kabbalah has been applied to personal transformation, psychology, and the monthly calendar, the practical path by which we live this lofty consciousness through the specifics of Jewish practice has yet to be explained. If anything, it seems the average Jew assumes just the opposite – that the specifics of Judaism get in the way of the lofty Kabbalistic ideals. So, in a sense, my purpose in writing this book is to get to the forest from among the trees – to see the Kabbalistic big picture that underlies the specifics of Jewish practice, thereby revealing how all of Judaism is a means of infusing the physical nitty-gritty with the spiritual consciousness that Kabbalah offers us.