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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

119 episodesEN

Show overview

Samach Vav launched in 2025 and has put out 119 episodes in the time since. That works out to roughly 130 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a near-daily cadence.

Episodes typically run an hour to ninety minutes — most land between 58 min and 1h 11m — 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 3 days ago, with 87 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2026, with 87 episodes published. Published by Rabbi Simon Jacobson.

Episodes
119
Running
2025–2026 · 1y
Median length
1h 5m
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 119: How souls reach the etzem, re'usa d'liba, and then reveal it in giluiim

May 11, 20261h 12m

Re'usa d'liba's impact on mitzvos. Reaching re'usa d'liba through avodah with the revealed faculties

May 9, 20261h 10m

Samach Vav Part 117: Souls are connected with the Divine on a core level, like a child to a parent

May 8, 202656 min

Samach Vav Part 116: The love of re'usa d'liba is due to the soul's core connection with Atzmus

May 7, 202659 min

Samach Vav Part 115: Levels of contemplation in prayer that generate love, but cannot grasp Atzmus

May 6, 202658 min

Atzmus Ohr Ein Sof is completely beyond existence and all forms of comprehension, including negation

May 5, 202655 min

Samach Vav 113: No thought can grasp You at all. Two types of comprehension: Positive and negative

May 4, 20261h 16m

Samach Vav Part 112: The primary element in mitzvos is kabolas ol, which generates the ratzon atzmi

May 3, 20261h 3m

Samach Vav Part 111: The difference between sovev in creation and that revealed through mitzvos

May 1, 202656 min

Samach Vav Part 110: Mitzvos draw the core essence of ohr ein sof into existence

Apr 26, 202656 min

Difference between the inherent structure of creation and the desired structure of mitzvos

Apr 24, 20261h 10m

Samach Vav Part 108: The parameters of mitzvos are only a result of the divine desire, not inherent

Apr 23, 20261h 4m

Samach Vav Part 107: Difference between the desire for creation and the desire for mitzvos

Apr 23, 20261h 6m

Samach Vav Part 106: Review of the three levels in the Kav HaMidah

Apr 23, 20261h 12m

Samach Vav Part 105: Three levels in the kav ha'midah. The etzem can change the structure entirely.

Apr 20, 20261h 16m

Root of medidah in the pre-tzimtzum desire for existence that envisions all that will be actualized

Apr 18, 202655 min

Samach Vav Part 103: The partitions throughout the cosmic order, which conceal the divine light

Apr 17, 20261h 0m

Samach Vav Part 102: The light flows through one kav, and not many kavim, to create hierarchy

Apr 16, 202653 min

Samach Vav Part 101: The role of the elements used to create existence -- ohr ein sof, tzimtzum, kav

Apr 15, 202656 min

Samach Vav Part 100: The structure and hierarchy of existence is rooted in the kav

Apr 14, 202657 min
Rabbi Simon Jacobson