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Samach Vav

Samach Vav

Samach Vav by MyLife: Chassidus Applied Hafotzas HaMayanot Chutza Initiative Launched by The Meaningful Life Center to Address the Personal and Emotional Needs of The Chabad Community and Answer the Most Pressing Questions of Our Lives.

Rabbi Simon Jacobson

149 episodesEN

Show overview

Samach Vav launched in 2025 and has put out 149 episodes in the time since. That works out to roughly 160 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a near-daily cadence.

Episodes typically run an hour to ninety minutes — most land between 57 min and 1h 10m — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Religion & Spirituality show.

The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 2 days ago, with 117 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2026, with 117 episodes published. Published by Rabbi Simon Jacobson.

Episodes
149
Running
2025–2026 · 1y
Median length
1h 3m
Cadence
Near-daily

From the publisher

Samach Vav by MyLife: Chassidus Applied Hafotzas HaMayanot Chutza Initiative Launched by The Meaningful Life Center to Address the Personal and Emotional Needs of The Chabad Community and Answer the Most Pressing Questions of Our Lives. Please subscribe to get the word out, and receive MyLife in your inbox weekly. Our website: meaningfullife.com Submit a Question: http://www.meaningfullife.com/mlc-tv-channels/mylife-chassidus-applied/#question Let us know what you think!

Latest Episodes

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Samach Vav Part 149: Deep study, effort and toil reaches the koach hi'uli ha'atzmi

Jun 27, 20261h 9m

Koach hiuli ha'atzmi, beyond structure and source, produces far deeper and unlimited ideas

Jun 26, 20261h 2m

Samach Vav Part 147: The koach ha'maskil is a manifestation of wisdom, lower than the core soul

Jun 25, 20261h 4m

Samach Vav Part 146: Chochmah in keser and keser in chochmah

Jun 24, 202659 min

Chochmah of ohr yoshor and ohr chozer are like the difference between coal and flint

Jun 24, 202656 min

Samach Vav Part 144: Two levels of concealment: with our without substance, hot coal vs. flint stone

Jun 23, 20261h 35m

Binah -- the power to dig deeper beyond the parameters of chochma and discover new insights

Jun 21, 202657 min

Samach Vav Part 142: "those who wait for him" are those who exert themselves in in-depth Torah study

Jun 19, 20261h 13m

Yaaseh l'mechakeh lo (hope) is the performance of mitzvos that generates ratzon and taanug ha'atzmi

Jun 19, 202659 min

Ratzon and taanug ha'atzmi in mitzvos; today the ratzon is revealed and the taanug concealed

Jun 17, 202651 min

Samach Vav Part 139: How taanug and ratzon interact with each other

Jun 17, 202655 min

Ratzon expresses the depths of the etzem; taanug ha'atzmi remains fundamentally concealed

Jun 15, 20261h 11m

Samach Vav Part 137: Ratzon, mesiras nefesh reaches Atzmus, deeper than revealed pleasure

Jun 14, 202650 min

Samach Vav Part 136: Taanug and ratzon's role in creating an interface between Atzmus and existence

Jun 12, 20261h 14m

Samach Vav Part 135: Ratzon expresses the intense drive of the soul, unlike conscious taanug

Jun 11, 20261h 11m

Samach Vav Part 134: Ratzon is expressive; taanug -- non-expressive

Jun 11, 202650 min

Samach Vav Part 133: Taanug ha'atzmi remains concealed and unexpressed

Jun 10, 202655 min

Samach Vav Part 132: Every ratzon has concealed taanug within

Jun 7, 202645 min

Samach Vav Part 131: Ratzon reaches higher than taanug, causing the soul to be in a state of shuv

Jun 4, 202637 min

The baal teshuva's transformation and mesiras nefesh is greater than that of the tzaddik's

Jun 3, 20261h 9m
Rabbi Simon Jacobson