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When the Sun Is Eclipsed: Light, Darkness, and the Jewish Soul
What does a solar eclipse have to do with war, faith, and the Jewish soul?
In this episode of Toward a Meaningful Life Podcast, hosts David Cohen and Levi Goldstein explore a powerful and timely teaching from Rabbi Simon Jacobson, delivered just one week after the October 7 attacks in Israel — on the very day of a rare annular solar eclipse.
Rabbi Jacobson explains that the sun represents immense power, while the moon symbolizes the Jewish people — a nation that waxes and wanes, disappears and reemerges, yet never truly vanishes. Drawing from the Talmud and Kabbalistic insight, he reveals how…
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