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This Jewish Life is Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe’s flagship podcast. Since its founding in January of 2013, This Jewish Life has featured a delightful potpourri of podcast episodes on a myriad of Jewish subjects. In its current incarnation, the podcast focuses on exploring the deeper elements of Jewish life and philosophy. In each episode our objective is to go a bit deeper into subjects that we may be familiar with, to plumb the depths and uncover the essence of the beauty and sublimity of Jewish life and customs, and Torah wisdom. Please email any questions, comments, or feedback to [email protected].

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Celebrating a Wolbe Bar Mitzvah

2026/10/12

This past weekend, we celebrated my son Shlomo’s bar mitzvah, together with much of our family. It was a delightful and memorable affair! In this special podcast, I share some of the exciting events of the weekend, and of course some of the speeches that I gave in honor of the bar mitzvah boy. We […]

Joy, Jubilation, and Ecstasy on Sukkos

2026/09/24

The festival of Sukkos is called “the time of our joy.” The entire festival is associated with joy. Sitting in the Sukkah is joyous, shaking the Lulav is joyous, the traditional celebratory festivities are known as the “Joy of the Drawing.” Why are these days so intimately associated with joy? In this special podcast, we […]

The Unparalleled Day of Yom Kippur

2026/09/20

The holiest day of the year is upon us. The day of Yom Kippur is unmatched and unrivaled by any other. It is a day of elevation. It is a day of purification. It is a day to be cleansed of all of our sins. It is a day to move past all of our […]

Asking Forgiveness Before Yom Kippur

2026/09/17

Yom Kippur is a day of atonement and expiation. On this auspicious day, the Almighty forgives us for all our transgressions and we become purified before God. But the purification of Yom Kippur is limited to sins between man and God. For interpersonal transgressions, there is no atonement unless the aggressor appeases and secures forgiveness […]

The Ten Wonders of Repentance

2026/09/10

God showered humanity with endless gifts: the ability to see, to hear, to walk, to taste, to think, to make choices, to become closer to Him. The list is very long. One of the greatest gifts that God gave humanity is the ability to repent. When we err, when we make blunders, when we go […]

The Nuanced Judgment of Rosh Hashana

2026/09/07

Rush Hashanah is a day of judgment. On this day, God sits, as it were, on His Throne of Judgment. The intensity and scrutiny of divine judgment is unfathomable. Even the angels quake and quiver with trepidation. For some, the results of the judgment are instantaneous: the completely righteous are immediately inscribed and sealed into […]

The Incalculability of Mitzvos

2026/08/31

Mitzvos have infinite value. There is no experience that we can have in this world that matches the reward in the world to come for a single mitzvah. But not all mitzvos are the same. Some contain more power than others. And even within a single mitzvah, there are infinite gradients of degrees of devotion […]

The First Elul

2026/08/24

We have a begun hallowed days of Elul. In one month, we will celebrate Rosh Hashanah. We will all be judged. We will blow the shofar. We will pray for a good year. Ten days later, the holy day of Yom Kippur. We will fast for 25 hours: no food, no drink. On that day,we […]

Confronting Mortality (How to Preparing for the Afterlife Part 2)

2026/08/17

Death and the afterlife are foreign, and often terrifying, subjects. Naturally, most of us tend to try to avoid thinking about it too much. This is exactly what allows the evil inclination to deceive and mislead us. It’s an important subject to the well-upon, though too much morbid fascination can be counterproductive. In part 2 […]

When and How to Prepare for the Afterlife

2026/08/03

Sooner or later, we all are required to drink from the bitter portion of death. As a result of the sin of Adam, death is the fate of all mankind. But what happens afterwards? What happens in the afterlife? In that, we are all different. The state of a person after they pass depends completely […]

How to Build the Third Temple

2026/07/13

The Temple is a central component of our religion. Ever since it was destroyed by the Romans, our nation has been operating in a suboptimal fashion. Certainly, we have prayers to match the sacrifices of God, and our Torah Academy halls, the four cubits of halacha, is a place where the divine presence rests; we […]

The King’s Way

2026/06/29

The sorcerer/prophet of the nations, Balaam, sought to curse the Israelites, but his attempts were thwarted. The Talmud reveals some very interesting elements of his botched effort. Had he succeeded in cursing the nation, there would have been nothing left. He would have achieved total devastation. In this very interesting and informative podcast, we study […]

The System of Prayer

2026/06/22

It takes years to develop a taste for prayer. Prayer is described in our sources as “service of the heart.” Service of any sort is difficult for us, and most of us are not attuned enough to our hearts to even understand what service of the heart means. Prayer is a foundational pillar of our […]

Two Anonymous Wives

2026/06/15

There are two wives – two women whose names we don’t even know – who caused seismic, tectonic shifts in the fates and the fortunes of their husbands, their families, their tribes, and the nation at large. 254 men were part of the Korach rebellion against Moshe and Aaron. 253 of them perished. On(e) survived […]

The History and Mystery of the Ancient Blue Dye (Techeiles)

2026/06/08

We recite the three paragraphs of the Shema twice a day. The third paragraph contains the mitzvah of placing tzitzis fringes on the corner of our garments, and to wrap the fringes with a cord of blue-dyed wool. In this interesting podcast we share the fascinating and controversial history of the ancient blue dye, and […]

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dennis.karpf 2022/06/06

Dennis Karpf

Each podcast is wonderful: combining legal, ethical, mussar and mystical traditions. The three crowns of Torah can be actualized in each of us.

★★★★★

david kir 2020/05/27

🤚🏼🤚🏼🤚🏼

Very educational and easy to follow. Listened to on cross country road trip and thoroughly enjoyed.

★★★★★

itsan12 2019/12/29

Best Jewish podcast

Educational, inspirational and overall great podcast. I wanted to learn more about Judaism and I feel like I’ve already learned so much. He’s a great ...

★★★★★

econodude 2019/06/10

Fascinating!! Wealth and depth of Jewish wisdom

A wealth of info, i continue to be intrigued listening about the varied subjects. Thank you Rabbi for breaking things down and passing down of the Or...

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tzvighfd 2019/03/07

Expert in show

You invited a kosher expert and he barely spoke...1h and he barely provided practical info because you took over the podcast...

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Sam!!1 2019/01/31

Great

Amazing

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Enjoyable and Educational

Love his Podcasts and I’ve increased my knowledge of bible and new vocabulary words too! Thankful

★★★★★

Nick Cuz 2018/11/04

Brilliant

Rabbi Wolbe demystifies all the essential yet very often esoteric concepts in Judaism, in a crystal clear, engaging and humorous way. What an erudite ...

★★★★★

RockyMountains 2017/07/19

Excellent!

Amazing podcast and highly recommended to everyone!

★★★★★

ישראל מניו יורק 2017/07/12

Great Mussar perspective

Rabbi Wolbe comes from a legacy of greatness in Mussar, which is eminently clear from this podcast, even more than in his others. Careful and thorough...

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