About the Author

Rabbi Adam Jacobs

Rabbi Adam Jacobs is a rabbi, author, and educator. He is the founder of The Looking Glass, which offers Jewish wisdom for the searching soul through programs like Letting Go and What If It's True?, and the creator of Feed Your Head, a publication exploring spirituality, film, music, and philosophy. After 26 years at Aish, where he founded the Aish Center, he now devotes himself to helping people discover the extraordinary hidden inside ordinary life.

Disclosure Day: What Spielberg’s Film Gets Right About God

by Rabbi Adam Jacobs

Spielberg's new film asks whether alien life destroys faith in God. Here’s a Jewish approach to the question.

Music of the Soul: An Interview with Peter Himmelman

by Rabbi Adam Jacobs

A wide-ranging interview with the Grammy and Emmy-award nominated singer and songwriter on creativity and spirituality, Ishay Ribo, and sticking your neck out for Israel after October 7th.

The Scientific Foreknowledge of the Jewish Sages

by Rabbi Adam Jacobs

Three specific examples of Rabbis from the Talmud knowing things about the natural world that, all things being equal, they should not have known.

Debate Like a Mensch

by Rabbi Adam Jacobs

Ancient Jewish wisdom on the seven traits that characterize a wise person. Biden and Trump, take note.

Unlocking the Hidden Depths of Your Seder Plate

by Rabbi Adam Jacobs

Your Passover Seder Plate is more than just food - it's a map to spiritual growth and freedom!

The Deeper Meaning of Hamantaschen

by Rabbi Adam Jacobs

Wine’s Double-Edged Secret

by Rabbi Adam Jacobs

Why drink on Purim until one cannot tell the difference between cursed is Haman and blessed is Mordechai?

Bob Marley’s Songs of Freedom

by Rabbi Adam Jacobs

The music legend wrote some of the most unabashedly religious and spiritual lyrics the rock world ever heard.

Judaism and the Holiness of Eating

by Rabbi Adam Jacobs

Don’t just scarf down that hotdog; use it to ascend your spiritual ladder.

Science, Religion and a Cosmologist’s Return to Judaism: An Interview with Dr. Brian Keating

by Rabbi Adam Jacobs

A leading cosmologist, Dr. Keating was a Catholic altar boy before he discovered his Judaism later in life.

When Science and Religion Hold Hands

by Rabbi Adam Jacobs

Science and mysticism are entwined with each other.

Is Elon Musk Right?

by Rabbi Adam Jacobs

Are we living in a simulation?

Baruch Spinoza: Genius, Jew, Heretic

by Rabbi Adam Jacobs, Dr. Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes

The Jewish struggle with the ideas of a philosopher who left the fold.

Bob Dylan and the Philosophy of Modern Song

by Rabbi Adam Jacobs

Reflections on the music and spirituality of a rock legend.

Yom Kippur: Tasting Transcendence

by Rabbi Adam Jacobs

How to holiday in the great beyond.

Put Your Foot Down: Are Human Feet Poorly Designed?

by Rabbi Adam Jacobs

Is the human foot a masterpiece of engineering or a flawed result of chance?

Where's Waldo and the Design Argument

by Rabbi Adam Jacobs

Are atheists and Intelligent Design advocates both missing the point?

Hellen Keller's Kabbalistic Insight

by Rabbi Adam Jacobs

The art of seeing with your mind.

Hidden Meaning in the Talmud's Cures and Fables

by Rabbi Adam Jacobs

Is there more than meets the eye in these strange stories?

Love is a Skeleton Key

by Rabbi Adam Jacobs

Love: the strangest and most profound human experience.

The Spiritual Benefits of a Medical Scare

by Rabbi Adam Jacobs

Don’t let a crisis go to waste.

Near Death Experience in Ancient Jewish Sources

by Rabbi Adam Jacobs

Is the Near Death Experience a purely modern phenomenon or are there credible sources that support it in ancient texts?

Seeing Without Eyes

by Rabbi Adam Jacobs

Mr. Rogers and the Philosophy of Simplicity

by Rabbi Adam Jacobs

The Webb Telescope Images: Joy or Despair?

by Rabbi Adam Jacobs

Kate Bush and the Need To Be Understood

by Rabbi Adam Jacobs

The Cosmological Argument for God’s Existence

by Rabbi Adam Jacobs

​​From antiquity to the present, there have been many great philosophers who have made "cosmological" arguments for the existence of God. Are they still compelling?

Love - Not Just About Chemicals Anymore!

by Rabbi Adam Jacobs

Help, I Don't Exist!

by Rabbi Adam Jacobs

How can a material entity be consciously aware of itself?

Milk and Meat: A Deeper Look at the Biggest Jewish Food Hang-up

by Rabbi Adam Jacobs

Discover the mystical and spiritual reasons to keep milk and meat apart.

The Marvelously Modest Matzah

by Rabbi Adam Jacobs

What no one told you about matzah.

Why Maror Is the Bitter Herb You Want to Endure

by Rabbi Adam Jacobs

The bitter herb represents a taste of the kind of suffering that leads to growth.

Marley and Matzah, A Taste of Freedom

by Rabbi Adam Jacobs

What do Bob Marley and matzah have in common? They both teach us about freedom.

Heisenberg, Tao and the Unbreakable One

by Rabbi Adam Jacobs

The more closely we examine the physical world, the more it seems to recede from us. Our mistake is trying to grasp the whole by only looking at a part.

Why Your Passover Seder Should Be Bittersweet

by Rabbi Adam Jacobs

Everything you need to know about charoset, the bittersweet symbol of Passover.

Smile, the Universe Has a Cause

by Rabbi Adam Jacobs

Is it possible to prove that the Universe had a beginning? Many philosophical arguments have been put forth over thousands of years but do they still hold water?

The "Eye for an Eye" Fallacy

by Rabbi Adam Jacobs

The phrase doesn’t mean what you think it means.

Surviving Failure, Befriending Defeat

by Rabbi Adam Jacobs

When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?

by Rabbi Adam Jacobs

Why do human beings undergo a mini-death every night?

Kabbalah and Jazz: The Mystical Foundation of Improvisational Music

by Rabbi Adam Jacobs

According to Jewish belief, everything is music.

Dune, Judaism and Humanity's Hope

by Rabbi Adam Jacobs

Why does Frank Herbert's esoteric book continue to fascinate, generation after generation?

Adele's New Song Gives Us Access to Her Heart

by Rabbi Adam Jacobs

Divorce is akin to death. In this sense, we are all part of Adele’s massive, global shiva.

The Secret Chord: The Complex, Heroic Act of Forgiveness

by Rabbi Adam Jacobs

An exploration of the process of forgiveness, through the prism of music and Jewish wisdom.

The Secret Chord: Jimi Hendrix's Message to Love

by Rabbi Adam Jacobs

The rock legend had a tough childhood but used music to heal himself and, ultimately, to discover the power of love.

 

Music is Not Normal

by Rabbi Adam Jacobs

Why do we love music? Is there something deeper than sound?

Prophet

by Rabbi Adam Jacobs

The film Noah has been banned by some Islamic authorities for depicting a prophet of God. What is the Jewish view of prophecy?

The Great Ocean of Truth

by Rabbi Adam Jacobs

Despite the staggering discoveries made by science, the universe is still shrouded in awesome mystery.

Small Nation, Big Difference

by Rabbi Adam Jacobs

Israel isn’t perfect, but it’s working hard to implement the Jewish ideal of repairing the world.

Why You Don't Understand the Bible

by Rabbi Adam Jacobs

The Jewish sages of antiquity were in the best position to interpret and comprehend the Torah.

Why We Dance

by Rabbi Adam Jacobs

"Dance is the hidden language of the soul." ~Martha Graham

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