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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

188 episodesEN

Show overview

Samach Vav launched in 2025 and has put out 188 episodes in the time since. That works out to roughly 200 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 yesterday, with 156 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2026, with 156 episodes published. Published by Rabbi Simon Jacobson.

Episodes
188
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 188: Intellect reaches upward

Aug 22, 20261h 0m

Samach Vav Part 187: Neshama, intellect, like fire. Ruach, emotions, like wind

Aug 21, 202654 min

Samach Vav Part 186: The soul is both fire and wind (breath)

Aug 21, 202655 min

Samach Vav Part 185:To refine Esau, Jacob had to first fortify himself through the birurim of tikkun

Aug 19, 202657 min

Samach Vav Part 184: Living spring water reaches he'elem ha'Atzmus drawing it into Torah and mitzvos

Aug 19, 20261h 6m

Samach Vav Part 183: Teshuva requires a leap, unlike the orderly progression of tzaddikim

Aug 19, 20261h 21m

Samach Vav Part 182: Distress generates the most powerful, expansive force

Aug 18, 20261h 6m

Samach Vav Part 181: Teshuva reaches taanug ha'atzmi ha'bilti murgash, higher than tzaddikim

Aug 17, 20261h 4m

Samach Vav P. 180: 2 elevations in olam haba -- meal, taanug murgash, no meal, taanug bilti murgash

Aug 15, 202652 min

Samach Vav Part 179: In the 2nd elevation in the future the souls will hover above the chochma water

Aug 12, 202652 min

Samach Vav Part 178: Taanug ha'atzmi is the he'elem ha'atzmi of ein sof itself, totally ungraspable

Aug 11, 202655 min

Samach Vav P. 177: Taanug ha'murgash is taanug and he'elem ha'atzmi descending to being an interface

Aug 10, 202658 min

Samach Vav Part 176: The interface of Atzilus and of Torah

Aug 10, 20261h 3m

Samach Vav Part 175: Keser is an interface that connects Ohr Ein Sof with souls

Aug 4, 20261h 1m

Samach Vav Part 174: The interface of keser is similar to an interpreter

Aug 4, 20261h 43m

Samach Vav Part 173: Atik is a 'copy" of the divine essence, but also an interface to the emanations

Aug 2, 202654 min

Samach Vav Part 172: The ayin chochma allows us to have some grasp in the ayin of keser

Aug 2, 20261h 2m

Samach Vav Part 171: Taanug ha'poshut beyond any palpable pleasure (atzmus ha'taanug ha'ne'elem)

Jul 30, 202657 min

Samach Vav Part 170: Taanug ha'poshut expressed in a palpable sensation (taanug ha'bo b'murgash)

Jul 30, 202647 min

Samach Vav Part 169: 2 levels of vision in the future: the vision of sechel. ri'yas ha'mehus mamash

Jul 28, 202654 min
Rabbi Simon Jacobson