BOOKS BY RABBI ELIYAHU YAAKOV
~Human By Choice: A Kabbalistic Path To Self Help
~Jewish By Choice: A Kabbalistic Take On Life & Judaism
~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)
ebook & audio book also available ($5 each)
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.
Jewish By Choice: A Kabbalistic Take On Life & Judaism ($14)
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Jewish By Choice draws up an all-inclusive picture of Judaism and Jewish belief by which we come to understand the world, its purpose, and our place in it.
Weaving together classical Jewish thought and Kabbalistic wisdom, Jewish By Choice examines the realities of existence and the meaningfulness of life. By clearly defining and exploring concepts such as God, Free Will, the Soul, the Male-Female Dynamic, Suffering, Death, Reincarnation, and Unity, Jewish By Choice constructs a practical model of the Jewish take on reality and what we are doing here as it is seen through the eyes of Kabbalah.
Shabbos Insights of the Maharal ($15)
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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. It is simply a must-have for anyone looking to make their Shabbat meal experience a more meaningful one. By gleaning from the various works of the Maharal, the author illuminates the familiar words of Shabbos and Yom Tov as he presents the Maharal’s outlook on core concepts of Judaism as they relate to the words of our Kiddush, zemiros, bentsching, and beyond. And this masterful commentary is accompanied by a beautiful original translation by Rabbi Avraham Sutton, making it far more than just a bencher. Enlightening and inspiring, Shabbos Insights of the Maharal is a one-of-a-kind that offers an elevating glimpse of the levels you can reach on each and every Shabbos. (Targum Press)
The Trees In The Forest: Jewish Living In The Context Of Kabbalah ($10)
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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.