Author and Rabbi Jacob Rupp is founder of the platform Lift Your Legacy. Rabbi Rupp specializes in helping teens, collegiate students, and professionals who need guidance on business development, and his expertise also lies in strengthening family relationships and tackling issues of self esteem. Rabbi Rupp's mission is not only for his coaching to improve the lives of those with daily struggles,but also to motivate business owners and entreprenuers to live a more spiritual and genuine life. He does this in a unique way by combining the background of a rabbi and 3,300 years of Jewish wisdom, with current knowledge of business/leadership/ development to provide a comprehensive, rooted, and relevant way to achieve goals and develop a clear strategy.
I had a chance to interview him to learn more.
Why did you launch Lift Your Legacy?
-I launched Lift Your Legacy to close the gap between self help and monotheistic religion, specifically Judaism. From my studies and my previous career I am aware that despite the fact that more and more people are moving away from conventional religion, the wisdom contained within the Bible is highly relevant for today. Lift Your Legacy is my attempt to build a bridge, both from the knowledge I have aquired and help clients with, and other experts in the field who can help people live healthy, more focused, and genuine lives.
What are the benefits of coaching?
-The benefits of coaching, when working with the right coach, can be tremendous. The purpose of coaching is to provide forward action towards an established goal. While understanding our past and our motivations are of course necessary, the role of the coach is to always be helping the client ask "ok, what's next?" We get so bogged down by the past, by over analysis, or by a lack of clarity in going forward that oftentimes we don't take the action we need to facilitate the results in our lives. Our time isn't finite, so lack of action is also making a choice and losing an opportunity. The coach, not unlike a coach for a sports team helps provide accountability, vision, and direction. But its mostly psychological; when not just you are committed to getting your goals accomplished you show up with more authority and purpose.
What principles of Judaism are universal, regardless of belief?
-Much of Judaism is universal. Belief, in Judaism, is not an important factor before living or thinking according to Biblical principles because making conclusions based on things that you cannot prove simply is silly. Thus, for the new initiate, I am always quick to point out that making sure there is a rational foundation for our knowledge is crucial in spirituality like it is anywhere else in life. You don't want to believe the car seat you carry your three year old is safe, you want to know! That being said, one particular teaching that stands out is the concept that man was created in the image of the Divine. The Divine, being the opposite of that which is fixed reflects our potential. That is to say that we are born with nature and nurture; but our potential is outside of both. The reflection of our truest essence is the ability to create something beyond what our circumstances will allow. History is full of people who have defied man and nature and grown beyond and created great things because they dreamed it possible. Why not us?
Why is spirituality important?
-Spirituality is a hard thing to define and thus you need a working definition before you define its importance. However, acknowledging that there is more to our life and the world at large than pure physicality shouldn't come as too hard of a mental jump for most. The biggest and most impressive gaps that exist in the world for us are not the distances in the cosmos but in our own minds and hearts. Knowing your soulmate is in the other room, and occupies certain demenontions doesn't get you any closer to feeling close to them, or in love with them, or satisfied with yourself. Knowing we exist is far less important than knowing WHY we exist, and HOW we can exist at our highest potential. Even the idea of potential is spiritual; we are envisioning a reality that hasn't happened yet, or a person we aren't yet. Think about raising children; on one hand they are ours--biologically, custodially. But why we love our kids and want their best is so much more than that; they're our legacy, we are just their guarantors. The bigger you picture your purpose, the more you become a part of the bigger picture.
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