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The Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen Podcast
by Dov Ber Cohen
Classes on Jewish spirituality, personal growth, philosophy and practice.
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Rachel, Leah, and Two Paths of Avodas Hashem for Rosh Hashanah
In this rich pre-Rosh Hashanah shiur, Rav Dov Ber Cohen explores two fundamental archetypes of avodas Hashem — the way of Leah and the way of Rachel. Leah embodies the grounded, joyful servant who shows up regardless of feeling; Rachel burns for inner experience, light, and understanding. Neither is complete without the other, and Rav Dov Ber weaves them together into a vision of what it means to be both an eved and a ben before Hashem. The shiur moves through two madreigos: accepting ol malchut shamayim with full commitment, and the higher bitul of dissolving into Hashem's light entirely. Along the way, Rabbi Dov Ber addresses the yetzer hara with warmth and wisdom — not as an enemy to fight, but as a signal of where you are spiritually and an opportunity to go higher. He closes with a meditation on zachrenu lechaim and what it truly means to be alive: not achievement, not self-improvement for its own sake, but becoming a vessel for kavod Hashem in every moment and with every gift you carry. Living in Tune with Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen Mindfulness, Torah wisdom, and inner work for a calmer, more aligned life. Courses & Resources - Living in Tune - 8-Week Foundational Mindfulness Course https://www.rabbidovber.org Join the WhatsApp Community https://bit.ly/4qtfv3p Contact: [email protected]
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Rosh Hashanah on Shabbat | When Ahavah and Yirah Come Together
In this shiur, Rav Dov Ber Cohen explores the rare and elevated meeting point of Rosh Hashanah and Shabbat. Drawing from the Netivot Shalom and the Yerushalmi, he unpacks why zichron teruah, the Torah's language of remembering the shofar, points specifically to this day. When Rosh Hashanah falls on Shabbat, the shofar is not blown, yet the inner work of crowning the King continues at a deeper level. Memory, kavana, and davening become the vessel. Rabbi Dov Ber teaches that Rosh Hashanah carries yirah, and Shabbat carries ahavah, and that on this day alone both wings are present together. There is no din on Shabbat, no judgment, only the possibility of a relationship fully alive with awe and love at once. The mitzvah becomes the yearning itself, and the yearning becomes a form of closeness that the action alone cannot reach. Living in Tune with Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen Mindfulness, Torah wisdom, and inner work for a calmer, more aligned life. Courses & Resources - Living in Tune - 8-Week Foundational Mindfulness Course https://www.rabbidovber.org Join the WhatsApp Community https://bit.ly/4qtfv3p Contact: [email protected]
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Five Avodot for Elul: Preparing for Rosh Hashanah with Joy and Depth
In this shiur, Rav Dov Ber Cohen walks through five essential avodot for the days of Elul leading into Rosh Hashanah. Rather than approaching the season with anxiety or self-criticism, he frames it as a time of extraordinary divine openness — a moment to grow with vitality, not pressure. Rabbi Dov Ber draws from Rav Tzvi Meir Silberberg and Rav Ovadia Yosef to show that Rosh Hashanah is a day of simcha, not dread. He explores kavana in tefillah, the real meaning of cheshbon hanefesh, and how teshuva is not only a reckoning with the past but a conscious, forward-facing commitment to becoming who we want to be. Woven throughout is a reminder that emunah and bitachon are the antidote to anger, fear, and stagnation — and that Hashem, our Avinu Malkeinu, cannot stop thinking about us. The only question is whether we are open to receiving what He is already pouring down. Living in Tune with Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen Mindfulness, Torah wisdom, and inner work for a calmer, more aligned life. Courses & Resources - Living in Tune - 8-Week Foundational Mindfulness Course https://www.rabbidovber.org Join the WhatsApp Community https://bit.ly/4qtfv3p Contact: [email protected]
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Rosh Hashanah | The Secret of Yom Teruah, Shofar Blasts For The Soul
In this shiur delivered in the week of Rosh Hashanah, Rav Dov Ber Cohen explores the deeper meaning of Yom Teruah — not merely as a day when shofar is blown, but as a day whose very essence is shofar. Drawing on the Netivos Shalom and a profound mashal from the Baal Shem Tov, he teaches that the mechitzos between us and Hashem are not true barriers. They are woven from Hashem's own light, and the one who yearns hard enough discovers they were never truly separated. Rabbi Dov Ber calls us to approach Rosh Hashanah not with philosophical analysis or accumulated heaviness, but with the cry of a child reaching for an Abba. The shofar blast is not a performance — it is a shattering of small consciousness into something vast. Leave your mind at the door. Scream. Dance. Yield. The treasure is one dig away, and the gates at Ne'ilah are not closing you out — they are locking you in. Living in Tune with Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen Mindfulness, Torah wisdom, and inner work for a calmer, more aligned life. Courses & Resources - Living in Tune - 8-Week Foundational Mindfulness Course https://www.rabbidovber.org Join the WhatsApp Community https://bit.ly/4qtfv3p Contact: [email protected]
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Authentic Jewish Spirituality Part 6 | The Path of Tefillah and the Power of Speech
In this shiur, Rav Dov Ber Cohen teaches that speech is the fourth pillar of authentic Jewish spirituality, and perhaps the most overlooked. As the bridge between our inner world and outer reality, how we speak, to ourselves, to others, and to Hashem, shapes who we are becoming. Rabbi Dov Ber unpacks the word lehitpallel as a reflexive act: tefillah is not petitioning Hashem for things but evaluating yourself, connecting to your soul, and envisioning a greater you. He walks through the four dimensions of tefillah, shevach, bakashah, hodayah, and sichah, and makes the case that sichah, simple, spontaneous conversation with Hashem, may be the most powerful of all. From brachos as spiritual microdosing throughout the day, to the practice of saying "Hashem, I know You're here" fifty times daily, this shiur offers a living, breathing vision of what it means to make speech holy. Living in Tune with Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen Mindfulness, Torah wisdom, and inner work for a calmer, more aligned life. Courses & Resources - Living in Tune - 8-Week Foundational Mindfulness Course https://www.rabbidovber.org Join the WhatsApp Community https://bit.ly/4qtfv3p Contact: [email protected]
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Shabbas 26 | B'Yam Darkecha
In this shiur, Rav Dov Ber Cohen explores the depth of Shabbat candle lighting as one of the most spiritually charged moments of the week. Drawing from the Arizal, the Zohar, and the inner dimensions of Kabbalah, Rabbi Dov Ber reveals that the woman who lights is not simply performing a ritual, but actively drawing the Shechina, shalom, and kedusha into the home. The shiur traces why fire and light hold a singular place in Torah thought: unlike any other physical substance, fire can be shared without diminishment, expands beyond its source, and never grows old. These qualities make it the closest analogy in creation to Hashem's own infinite light. Rav Dov Ber also teaches that the neshama itself is called a ner, and that lighting candles with kavana is an act of illuminating one's inner divine light, of choosing emunah over anxiety, and of stepping fully into presence at the close of the week. Living in Tune with Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen Mindfulness, Torah wisdom, and inner work for a calmer, more aligned life. Courses & Resources - Living in Tune - 8-Week Foundational Mindfulness Course https://www.rabbidovber.org Join the WhatsApp Community https://bit.ly/4qtfv3p Contact: [email protected]
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Parashat Nitzavim - Vayelech | Choose Life, Wake Up, and Stand Before Hashem
In this shiur on Nitzavim-Vayelech, Rav Dov Ber Cohen opens with the essential balance the parsha itself encodes: knowing when to stand firm and when to move, when to push with hishtadlut and when to surrender with bitachon. From there, the teaching expands into something far deeper. Rabbi Dov Ber draws on the Zohar's reading of Atem nitzavim to frame Rosh Hashanah not as a day of judgment from above, but as a moment of choosing. Uvacharta bachayim, choose life, is placed in our hands. The books of life and death are not written by Hashem alone. They are written by whether we choose kindness over jealousy, presence over numbness, and connection over sleepwalking through our days. The shofar, the mezuzah, the bracha, the Modeh Ani, all of it is a call to wake up. And Rosh Hashanah, he teaches, is not about whether you succeeded this year. It is about whether you still want the right things. That desire alone is already beautiful. Living in Tune with Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen Mindfulness, Torah wisdom, and inner work for a calmer, more aligned life. Courses & Resources - Living in Tune - 8-Week Foundational Mindfulness Course https://www.rabbidovber.org Join the WhatsApp Community https://bit.ly/4qtfv3p Contact: [email protected]
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Preperaring for Rosh Hashana with Sefer Sichot Hischazkus | Elul
In this shiur, Rav Dov Ber Cohen opens a remarkable sefer, Sichot Hischazkus by the Chasidic Rebbe Tzvi Mayer Silberberg, as a guide for what avodah in Elul actually looks like in practice. He names three honest obstacles that prevent even sincere people from taking hold of these holy months: too many competing voices, the spiritual distance of our generation, and the fact that every neshama is its own universe, inspired by different things. Rather than adding pressure, Rabbi Dov Ber invites a different orientation entirely. Hashem has opened something in Elul, a real siyata di-shmaya, and the one thing that blocks us from receiving it is our own heaviness. The avodah begins with a growth mindset, not perfectionism, and with tefillah as authentic communication with Hashem. Even a few honest words, said from the heart, open the relationship. Living in Tune with Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen Mindfulness, Torah wisdom, and inner work for a calmer, more aligned life. Courses & Resources - Living in Tune - 8-Week Foundational Mindfulness Course https://www.rabbidovber.org Join the WhatsApp Community https://bit.ly/4qtfv3p Contact: [email protected]
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Proper Intention and A Healthy Relationship | Elul
In this rich and wide-ranging shiur, Rav Dov Ber Cohen unpacks what teshuva really means at its core: not a checklist of external changes, but a genuine return to healthy relationship — with yourself, with others, and with Hashem. He draws a sharp distinction between New Year's resolutions and the inner transformation that Torah asks of us. Rabbi Dov Ber explores the two stages of teshuva — the ratzon, the deep inner want, and the action that proves the want is real. He teaches that your neshama is always already experiencing ahava, yira, simcha, and devekut; teshuva is the work of bringing your conscious life into alignment with what your soul already knows. He also offers practical guidance on the yetzer hara, inner child work, lashon hara, and how to use bad habits as triggers for connection with Hashem — meeting yourself with honesty rather than performance. Living in Tune with Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen Mindfulness, Torah wisdom, and inner work for a calmer, more aligned life. Courses & Resources - Living in Tune - 8-Week Foundational Mindfulness Course https://www.rabbidovber.org Join the WhatsApp Community https://bit.ly/4qtfv3p Contact: [email protected]
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Elul | Feeling Alive in Our Avoda
In this shiur, Rav Dov Ber Cohen dismantles the heaviness that so many of us carry into the season of teshuva. He challenges the common mistake of measuring the teshuva gap against a perfect tzaddik rather than against who we genuinely could be. Real teshuva, he teaches, is not New Year's resolution-making, not Whac-A-Mole with bad habits, and not self-punishment dressed up as sincerity. Rabbi Dov Ber draws a clear line between external avodah and the deeper work of returning to God consciousness. Charata, vidui, and improved middot are means, not the destination. The destination is a neshama that feels alive, present, and in loving relationship with Hashem. Teshuva, at its root, is as simple as a child calling home and saying: Dad, I want to come back. This shiur is for anyone who has made Elul heavier than it needs to be, and who is ready to return not through strain, but through sincerity and presence. Living in Tune with Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen Mindfulness, Torah wisdom, and inner work for a calmer, more aligned life. Courses & Resources - Living in Tune - 8-Week Foundational Mindfulness Course https://www.rabbidovber.org Join the WhatsApp Community https://bit.ly/4qtfv3p Contact: [email protected]
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Authentic Jewish Spirituality Pt. 5 | The Path Of Teshuva
In this shiur, Rav Dov Ber Cohen teaches teshuva as the third of five paths toward genuine spiritual vitality. Far from a season of self-punishment, he presents teshuva as a joyful return, an act of cleaning the soul rather than condemning it. Using the image of a thousand-watt light bulb dimmed by layers of paint, he shows how aveiros do not damage the neshama but cover it, and how teshuva removes what has been layered over our true light. Rabbi Dov Ber draws a careful distinction between guilt, shame, and charatah, the kind of remorse that motivates growth rather than collapse. He teaches that one sincere moment of acknowledgment, ownership, and genuine pain is enough to begin the cleansing. The yetzer hara's greatest trick, he warns, is convincing us that we are what we have done. Teshuva insists otherwise: you are too good for this, not too broken to change. Living in Tune with Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen Mindfulness, Torah wisdom, and inner work for a calmer, more aligned life. Courses & Resources - Living in Tune - 8-Week Foundational Mindfulness Course https://www.rabbidovber.org Join the WhatsApp Community https://bit.ly/4qtfv3p Contact: [email protected]
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Shabbos 25 - B'Yam Darkecha
Shabbat Shalom! Good Shabbas! Rav Dov Ber Cohen explores what it means to truly live well. He invites us to stop mulling over what is hard and begin wallowing in what is good — not by denying pain, but by understanding that challenge carries three gifts: resilience, chesed, and emunah. Pain does not define us. How we respond does. Rav Dov Ber then draws us into the rhythm of Shabbat as a lens for the whole week — a reminder to ask what we are really hustling for, and whether our neshama has its own spreadsheet. He speaks about teshuva as a car wash for the soul, light and sweet rather than heavy. And he closes with the story of the Baal Shem Tov's chassid who traveled far to see Eliyahu HaNavi, only to discover that it is far greater to be Eliyahu than to see him. We can choose, right now, to be that presence for someone else. Living in Tune with Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen Mindfulness, Torah wisdom, and inner work for a calmer, more aligned life. Courses & Resources - Living in Tune - 8-Week Foundational Mindfulness Course https://www.rabbidovber.org Join the WhatsApp Community https://bit.ly/4qtfv3p Contact: [email protected]
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Elul | Teshuva, and Remembering Who You Really Are
In this shiur, Rav Dov Ber Cohen teaches that Elul is not a season of dread but an invitation to come home. Drawing on the image of Hashem as a loving parent who keeps a book of your most tender moments, he reframes Rosh Hashanah as a renewal of relationship rather than a day of reckoning. Yom Ha-Zikaron is not about sins being tallied but about remembering who you truly are: a radiant neshama, temporarily housed in a body, here to bring consciousness into the world. Rabbi Dov Ber walks through the arc from Elul through Yom Kippur to Sukkot as engagement, mikvah, and wedding. He speaks honestly about the yetzer hara, the trap of self-criticism, and the difference between intellectual emunah and a lived, experiential knowing of Hashem. The avodah of Elul, he says, begins simply: understand the real metzius, remove what is not serving you, and start each morning by winning the first small battle. Living in Tune with Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen Mindfulness, Torah wisdom, and inner work for a calmer, more aligned life. Courses & Resources - Living in Tune - 8-Week Foundational Mindfulness Course https://www.rabbidovber.org Join the WhatsApp Community https://bit.ly/4qtfv3p Contact: [email protected]
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Elul | The Avoda of Renewal and Letting Go
In this shiur, Rav Dov Ber Cohen opens the month of Elul as a season of awakening rather than dread. Drawing on the teaching that the Shulchan Aruch is, at its heart, a book of reminders to breathe, he shows how every mezuza, bracha, and act of tzniut is an invitation to return to presence, to remember that we are neshamot inside a world sustained by Hashem's ongoing awareness. Rabbi Dov Ber explores Rosh Hashanah not as a day of heaviness but as the birthday of finite consciousness, the moment when Hashem gave human beings a piece of Himself and made authentic relationship possible. The avodah of the day is not viduy or fear, but showing up with ahava v'yira, with the joy of a child who wants the King to be King. The shiur closes with a grounded call to prepare with both head and heart, to understand what these days hold, and to meet them with the excitement they deserve. Living in Tune with Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen Mindfulness, Torah wisdom, and inner work for a calmer, more aligned life. Courses & Resources - Living in Tune - 8-Week Foundational Mindfulness Course https://www.rabbidovber.org Join the WhatsApp Community https://bit.ly/4qtfv3p Contact: [email protected]
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Authentic Jewish Spirituality Pt. 4 | The Power of Mitzvot
In this shiur, Rav Dov Ber Cohen teaches that mitzvot are not cultural rituals or burdensome obligations — they are spiritual power points, direct portals into the reality of Hashem. Building on an earlier session about perishus and the body ego, he now turns to the second key of kedusha: pumping up the volume of the neshama. Rabbi Dov Ber explains that every mitzvah has five layers — action, speech, learning, kavana, and simcha — and that each one draws down immense spiritual light when done with presence and joy. Tefillin becomes a life-support system for the soul. Tzitzit becomes a living declaration of values. A mezuzah becomes a portal of divine awareness. The more you understand what you are doing, the more you receive. He closes with a tender story about a child's cup of mud — a reminder that Hashem does not need the black boxes. He wants the relationship. Living in Tune with Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen Mindfulness, Torah wisdom, and inner work for a calmer, more aligned life. Courses & Resources - Living in Tune - 8-Week Foundational Mindfulness Course https://www.rabbidovber.org Join the WhatsApp Community https://bit.ly/4qtfv3p Contact: [email protected]
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Shabbat 24 - B'Yam Darkecha
In this shiur on preparing for Shabbat, Rav Dov Ber Cohen explores the deeper meaning of Malbushei Shabbat, the special clothes worn for Shabbat. Drawing from the Arizal, Rabbeinu Chaim Vital, and Kabbalistic teaching, Rabbi Dov Ber reveals how physical clothing mirrors the levushim of the neshama: thought, speech, and action. He introduces the concept of or makif, the surrounding spiritual light that expands on Shabbat, and explains how Shabbat garments serve as an outer expression of this heightened inner reality. The neshama yeseira, the additional soul received on Shabbat, calls for a corresponding elevation in how we present ourselves to the world. This teaching is an invitation to stop misidentifying with the external and to use clothing, presence, and Shabbat itself as a path toward recognizing who we truly are: radiant neshamot yearning to return to Gan Eden. Living in Tune with Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen Mindfulness, Torah wisdom, and inner work for a calmer, more aligned life. Courses & Resources - Living in Tune - 8-Week Foundational Mindfulness Course https://www.rabbidovber.org Join the WhatsApp Community https://bit.ly/4qtfv3p Contact: [email protected]
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Reframing Our Perspectives In Elul | The End Is A Beginning
In this Elul shiur, Rav Dov Ber Cohen explores the courage it takes to begin again — not once, but year after year, with the same list, the same struggles, and the same invitation to grow. Drawing from the teachings of Beyam Darkecha, he reframes the Jewish calendar not as a cycle of repetition that wears us down, but as a series of deepening encounters where every mitzvah, every tefillah, and every act of chazara refines the neshama in ways we may not immediately feel. Rabbi Dov Ber speaks honestly about the weight of carrying our issues alongside our avodah, the difference between neurotic urgency and genuine emunah, and what it looks like to be a Sim Shalomdike Yid — someone who brings full presence to the moment that remains, rather than collapsing under the one that was lost. This shiur is a grounded, warm invitation into Elul as a place of self-compassion, honest effort, and renewed bitachon. Living in Tune with Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen Mindfulness, Torah wisdom, and inner work for a calmer, more aligned life. Courses & Resources - Living in Tune - 8-Week Foundational Mindfulness Course https://www.rabbidovber.org Join the WhatsApp Community https://bit.ly/4qtfv3p Contact: [email protected]
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Authentic Jewish Spirituality Pt. 3 | Prishut
In this shiur, Rav Dov Ber Cohen maps out the inner architecture of a human being — neshama, ruach, and body — and asks the essential question: who is actually in charge? He teaches that the body is not the self but the vehicle, and that the voice of the neshama grows quieter the more we feed the animalistic drive of the yetzer hara through craving, honor-seeking, and distraction. Rabbi Dov Ber introduces prishut — self-control — as the foundational practice of spiritual identity. Through small, daily acts of restraint in food, speech, technology, and physical comfort, we train the inner muscle that matters most: the ability to choose the soul's voice over the body's noise. Every moment of prishut is a declaration that you are not your cravings, not your ego, and not your reflection in the mirror. This is avodah that begins in the ordinary and reaches toward true kedusha. Living in Tune with Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen Mindfulness, Torah wisdom, and inner work for a calmer, more aligned life. Courses & Resources - Living in Tune - 8-Week Foundational Mindfulness Course https://www.rabbidovber.org Join the WhatsApp Community https://bit.ly/4qtfv3p Contact: [email protected]
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Authentic Jewish Spirituality Pt. 2 | Introduction
In this foundational shiur, Rav Dov Ber Cohen introduces the inner map of the neshama and the driving tension at the heart of Jewish spiritual life. He unpacks the five levels of the soul — nefesh, ruach, neshama, chaya, and yechida — and brings them into sharp, practical focus: you are not a body that has a soul. You are a soul that has a body. Rabbi Dov Ber teaches that the body-ego is built around feel good and look good, while the neshama is driven by be good and do good. The yetzer hara is not simply an obstacle — it is the sparring partner that makes genuine choice, and genuine growth, possible. Without it, there is no free will, no earning, and no real closeness with Hashem. The concept of Nehama d'Kisufa — the bread of shame — explains why the soul entered this world and what is truly at stake in the choices we make every day. Living in Tune with Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen Mindfulness, Torah wisdom, and inner work for a calmer, more aligned life. Courses & Resources - Living in Tune - 8-Week Foundational Mindfulness Course https://www.rabbidovber.org Join the WhatsApp Community https://bit.ly/4qtfv3p Contact: [email protected]
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Shabbos 23 - B'Yam Darkecha
In this wide-ranging shiur, Rav Dov Ber Cohen weaves together the sefirot of chesed, gevurah, and tiferet as a map for living each day of the week with intention. Tuesday's energy is tiferet, the quality of harmony and beauty, connected to the nefesh yeseirah still lingering from Shabbat and expressed through conscious, holy action in the world. Rabbi Dov Ber then opens a deeper teaching on Shabbat itself. Drawing on the Arizal and the language of tasting, he asks what it means to truly experience Shabbat rather than merely observe it. The question of tasting the Shabbat food before the meal becomes a doorway into one of Judaism's most distinctive ideas: that conscious engagement with the physical world is not a compromise of avodas Hashem, but one of its highest expressions. Eating with awareness, joy, and kavana is not what the Eastern traditions do, and that difficulty is precisely the point. Living in Tune with Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen Mindfulness, Torah wisdom, and inner work for a calmer, more aligned life. Courses & Resources - Living in Tune - 8-Week Foundational Mindfulness Course https://www.rabbidovber.org Join the WhatsApp Community https://bit.ly/4qtfv3p Contact: [email protected]
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Authentic Jewish Spirituality Pt. 1 | Introduction
In this shiur, Rav Dov Ber Cohen draws a defining distinction between being a good person and living a holy life. Tov, goodness, is achievable by anyone with strong values and self-awareness. But kadosh, holiness, asks something deeper: to be fully present in the world while bringing genuine spiritual consciousness into every act of eating, speaking, working, and loving. Rabbi Dov Ber challenges the idea that spirituality means withdrawal or detachment. Against both Western materialism and Eastern renunciation, he places the Torah's path as something richer: intimate engagement with life, anchored in the soul. Mitzvot are not arbitrary obligations but precision tools for manifesting the neshama into the world through thought, speech, and action. This teaching asks each listener to consider whether they are living on the level of tov alone, or reaching toward the kadosh that is their true purpose. Living in Tune with Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen Mindfulness, Torah wisdom, and inner work for a calmer, more aligned life. Courses & Resources - Living in Tune - 8-Week Foundational Mindfulness Course https://www.rabbidovber.org Join the WhatsApp Community https://bit.ly/4qtfv3p Contact: [email protected]
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Tisha B'Av | True Relationship
In this Tisha B'Av shiur, Rav Dov Ber Cohen strips away the surface-level questions about mourning something distant and arrives at the heart of what was truly lost: relationship. Not the stones of the Beit HaMikdash, but the living bonds between a person and themselves, between Jew and Jew, and between the Jewish people and Hashem. Rabbi Dov Ber is unflinching and honest. He names the near-absence of real deveikut and yirah in tefillah, the sinat chinam tearing religious communities apart, and the quiet disconnection so many feel from their own neshama. He speaks not to shame, but to awaken a real and honest pain that can move into yearning. The shiur closes with a practical avodah for Tisha B'Av: set aside the phone, sit with the discomfort, let the yearning surface, and leave with one concrete action to restore each of the three relationships that make life whole. Living in Tune with Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen Mindfulness, Torah wisdom, and inner work for a calmer, more aligned life. Courses & Resources - Living in Tune - 8-Week Foundational Mindfulness Course https://www.rabbidovber.org Join the WhatsApp Community https://bit.ly/4qtfv3p Contact: [email protected]
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Katnut and Gadlut: Doing Enjoyable Things
In this shiur, Rav Dov Ber Cohen explores the inner landscape of katnut, the spiritual state of smallness, disconnection, and heaviness that every person moves through. Rather than treating it as a failure, Rabbi Dov Ber reframes it as the real arena of avodas Hashem, the place where emunah, persistence, and genuine growth are forged. The teaching moves through the Chassidic concept of mochin d'gadlus, the expanded consciousness that allows a person to hold a higher perspective without emotional detachment. Rav Dov Ber draws on Mesillas Yesharim, the image of waking dream state, and the lived texture of everyday life to show what it means to keep showing up for yourself, for others, and for Hashem, even when nothing feels alive. He also makes a simple, grounded case that doing enjoyable, embodied things, music, movement, time in nature, is not a distraction from avodah but an expression of it. Living in Tune with Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen Mindfulness, Torah wisdom, and inner work for a calmer, more aligned life. Courses & Resources - Living in Tune - 8-Week Foundational Mindfulness Course https://www.rabbidovber.org Join the WhatsApp Community https://bit.ly/4qtfv3p Contact: [email protected]
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Katnus: The Sacred Struggle | The 9 Days
In this shiur, Rav Dov Ber Cohen teaches on the inner experience of katnus — the spiritual state of smallness and disconnection that visits every sincere person on the path of avodah. Rather than treating disconnection as failure, he frames it as the beginning of the next level, a sign that one chapter of growth has closed and a new one is opening. At the heart of the teaching is the concept of da'at: not merely what the mind knows, but the living bridge between intellect and heart. Rav Dov Ber explores why emunah can sit fully formed in the mind while barely touching the emotional life, and how breath, speech, and repetition can gradually carry truth downward into the neshama. He speaks with honesty about the yetzer hara's subtlest move — convincing us that disconnection is permanent — and offers a compassionate, grounded alternative: to stay in motion, to begin again, and to resist both the illusion of arrival and the despair of never arriving. Living in Tune with Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen Mindfulness, Torah wisdom, and inner work for a calmer, more aligned life. Courses & Resources - Living in Tune - 8-Week Foundational Mindfulness Course https://www.rabbidovber.org Join the WhatsApp Community https://bit.ly/4qtfv3p Contact: [email protected]
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Life Is A Roller Coaster | The Nine Days
In this shiur, Rav Dov Ber Cohen teaches during the Nine Days, drawing on the spiritual concept of ratzo v'shov, the soul's natural rhythm of expansion and contraction. Rather than treating low periods as failures, Rabbi Dov Ber reframes katnut, smallness and disconnection, as part of the very structure of growth. The neshama is not meant to feel constantly inspired; the real avodah begins precisely when inspiration fades. With characteristic warmth, he offers grounded, practical guidance on self-nurture, moderation, and meaningful downtime. He distinguishes clearly between guilt and responsibility, showing how both privilege and hardship call us not toward shame but toward purposeful, joyful living. Drawing from Pirkei Avot, Rebbe Nachman, and the beracha of chesronon, Rabbi Dov Ber teaches that lack itself is a gift, the very engine of yearning, relationship, and becoming. Living in Tune with Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen Mindfulness, Torah wisdom, and inner work for a calmer, more aligned life. Courses & Resources - Living in Tune - 8-Week Foundational Mindfulness Course https://www.rabbidovber.org Join the WhatsApp Community https://bit.ly/4qtfv3p Contact: [email protected]
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Rosh Chodesh Av: Hearing Your Soul Through the Nine Days
In this shiur, Rav Dov Ber Cohen opens on Rosh Chodesh Av — the yahrtzeit of Aharon HaKohen — and traces the spiritual DNA of the entire month through the lens of shalom, shmiiah, and the inner work of fixing taiva. He teaches that the distance we feel during the Nine Days is not rejection but a deeper form of drawing close, rooted in Rebbe Nachman's insight that every harchakas is really a hiskarvus in disguise. Rabbi Dov Ber weaves together the month's energy — fire, the lion of Leo, gevurah, and the letter tes — into a single call: stop feeding the noise and start listening to the music of your neshama. The avodah of Av is not mourning a building but mourning the distance, and then using that yearning to rebuild, one present day at a time. The goal is not just surviving Tisha B'Av but entering it with kavana, and emerging with renewed fire — for shalom, for achdut, and for a Beit HaMikdash built from within. Living in Tune with Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen Mindfulness, Torah wisdom, and inner work for a calmer, more aligned life. Courses & Resources - Living in Tune - 8-Week Foundational Mindfulness Course https://www.rabbidovber.org Join the WhatsApp Community https://bit.ly/4qtfv3p Contact: [email protected]
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Parshat Pinchas: Your Chelek, Your Mission, Your Unique Path
In this shiur on Parshat Pinchas, Rav Dov Ber Cohen draws on the division of the Land of Israel to ask a deeply personal question: what is your chelek, your portion, in this world? Just as each tribe inherited a distinct portion in Eretz Yisrael, every neshama carries a unique spiritual purpose that cannot be borrowed from someone else. Rabbi Dov Ber explores the difference between halacha, the shared structure that holds us all, and hashgafa, the personal expression that must flourish within it. He introduces the distinction between flow and grow: the areas where we move naturally and the areas of resistance that may actually signal our deepest tikkun. The shiur is a grounded, energizing invitation to stop comparing, stop imitating, and start inhabiting your own mission, your own talents, your own struggle, as the very place where Hashem needs you most. Living in Tune with Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen Mindfulness, Torah wisdom, and inner work for a calmer, more aligned life. Courses & Resources - Living in Tune - 8-Week Foundational Mindfulness Course https://www.rabbidovber.org Join the WhatsApp Community https://bit.ly/4qtfv3p Contact: [email protected]
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17th of Tammuz: Exile, Awareness, and the Five Avodot of Return
In this shiur delivered on the 17th of Tammuz, Rav Dov Ber Cohen explores the spiritual anatomy of galus — not only as a historical condition, but as an inner state of distance, confusion, and lost awareness. Drawing on the five tragedies associated with this day, he shows how each one reflects a fracture in our relationship with Hashem: the broken luchot, the interrupted tamid, the breached walls of kedusha, the burning of Torah values, and the idol placed in the Beis HaMikdash. Rabbi Dov Ber teaches that the broken tablets were carried alongside the whole ones inside the Aron HaKodesh, because Hashem holds our brokenness with the same care as our wholeness. The response to galus is not despair but da'as — wakefulness, presence, and the daily discipline of showing up. He offers five practical avodot for the three weeks: recommitting through teshuva, building a tamid of personal tefillah, restoring walls of kedusha, living with fiery Jewish pride, and returning to emunah and bitachon. Living in Tune with Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen Mindfulness, Torah wisdom, and inner work for a calmer, more aligned life. Courses & Resources - Living in Tune - 8-Week Foundational Mindfulness Course https://www.rabbidovber.org Join the WhatsApp Community https://bit.ly/4qtfv3p Contact: [email protected]
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Parashat Balak: What It Really Means to Show Up as a Mensch
In this shiur on Parshas Balak, Rav Dov Ber Cohen teaches the concept of Tzuras Ha'adam — the form of a human being — as the foundation of all avodah. Drawing on the stark contrast between Avraham and Bilaam, he explores what it means to carry yourself with true dignity: not arrogance, not low self-esteem, but the deep inner standing of someone who knows they were created b'tzelem Elokim. Rabbi Dov Ber unpacks the Gemara's teaching that a person is revealed through money, anger, and drink — kis, kaas, and cos — and shows how each one either builds or breaks the Tzuras Ha'adam. From there, he walks through the three traits of Pirkei Avos: ayin tovah, ruach nemucha, and nefesh shefela — a good eye, a humble spirit, and tempered desire — as the living portrait of a talmid of Avraham Avinu. Living in Tune with Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen Mindfulness, Torah wisdom, and inner work for a calmer, more aligned life. Courses & Resources - Living in Tune - 8-Week Foundational Mindfulness Course https://www.rabbidovber.org Join the WhatsApp Community https://bit.ly/4qtfv3p Contact: [email protected]
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Shabbos 21 - BYam Darkecha
In this wide-ranging and deeply personal shiur, Rav Dov Ber Cohen explores what it truly means to prepare for Shabbat, not just physically but inwardly. Drawing on the imagery of consciousness and content, screen and movie, he teaches that most of us have fallen so deeply into the film of our own psyche that we have lost touch with the pure awareness underneath. Shabbat, he explains, is the weekly return to that still white screen, and Friday is the sacred bridge that carries us there. Rabbi Dov Ber traces the week through the lens of nefesh, ruach, and neshama, and maps the days of the week onto the sefirot, showing how all of it flows toward Shabbat as its source and destination. He speaks with warmth about the yetzer hara's particular hostility on Erev Shabbat, and why recognizing that tension is itself part of the avodah. Preparation, he reminds us, is not just logistics. It is learning, yearning, and arriving with matches. Living in Tune with Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen Mindfulness, Torah wisdom, and inner work for a calmer, more aligned life. Courses & Resources - Living in Tune - 8-Week Foundational Mindfulness Course https://www.rabbidovber.org Join the WhatsApp Community https://bit.ly/4qtfv3p Contact: [email protected]
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Rosh Chodesh Tammuz: Seeing Through the Fake Into the Real
In this shiur for Rosh Chodesh Tammuz, Rav Dov Ber Cohen draws a direct line between the month's energy and the epidemic of inauthenticity all around us. From the Golden Calf to social media personas, from counterfeit spirituality to communities built on status, he names the core wound of these weeks: we have learned to perform rather than to be. The sense of the month is sight, and Rabbi Dov Ber teaches that how we see determines everything. Do we see ourselves as a son of the King, or as an animal driven by appetite? Do we see the difficult people in our lives as obstacles, or as Eliyahu Hanavi sent to help us grow? Do we see our brokenness as disqualifying, or as precisely what belongs in the Kodesh Hakodashim? The rectification of Tammuz is not grand. It is the quiet, daily choice to look at ourselves, at others, and at life itself through the eyes of chesed, emunah, and something real. Living in Tune with Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen Mindfulness, Torah wisdom, and inner work for a calmer, more aligned life. Courses & Resources - Living in Tune - 8-Week Foundational Mindfulness Course https://www.rabbidovber.org Join the WhatsApp Community https://bit.ly/4qtfv3p Contact: [email protected]
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Shabbos 20 - BYam Darkecha
In this shiur, Rav Dov Ber Cohen returns to one of his central themes: Shabbat as the tachlis, the living purpose of all creation. Drawing on Zohar, the Arizal, and the Noam Elimelech, he traces three ways of understanding how Shabbat relates to the six days of the week — as source, as summit, and as the hidden center from which all blessing flows. Rav Dov Ber weaves together the seven Sefiros, the three levels of the neshama, and the rhythm of thought, feeling, and action across each day of the week. Rather than overwhelming the listener, he offers a gentle, practical map: a single moment of awareness each morning, attached to what you already do, is enough to begin living Shabbat all week long. The shiur closes with a reminder that kedusha is not an event but a relationship, one that deepens with every conscious moment, every gut Shabbat, every deliberate step toward presence. Living in Tune with Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen Mindfulness, Torah wisdom, and inner work for a calmer, more aligned life. Courses & Resources - Living in Tune - 8-Week Foundational Mindfulness Course https://www.rabbidovber.org Join the WhatsApp Community https://bit.ly/4qtfv3p Contact: [email protected]
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Behar-Bechukotai: The Inner Work of Loving Another
In this parasha shiur on Behar-Bechukotai, Rabbi Dov Ber explores the central importance of mitzvot bein adam lchavero - the way we speak, care, give, and make space for others. During Sefira, when we focus on refining our love for another and being careful not to cause pain, this becomes especially practical and personal. He also highlights a key ingredient for real growth: the humility to seek guidance from a mentor, coach, or Rebbe.🎙️ Living in Tune with Rabbi Dov Ber CohenMindfulness, Torah wisdom, and inner work for a calmer, more aligned life.📚 Courses & Resources• Living in Tune — 8-Week Foundational Mindfulness Course🌐 https://www.rabbidovber.org📱 Join the WhatsApp Communityhttps://bit.ly/4qtfv3p📧 Contact: [email protected]
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The Fire Within: Awakening the Light of Lag BaOmer
Lag BaOmer opens a gateway into the inner dimension of Torah- where fire, light, and deep transformation come alive. This shiur explores the roots of Jewish mysticism, the revealing power of Rebbi Shimon, and the inner energy of Hod she’b’Hod.Through understanding these ideas, we begin to see how this day is not just historical- but deeply personal and present.🎙️ Living in Tune with Rabbi Dov Ber CohenMindfulness, Torah wisdom, and inner work for a calmer, more aligned life.📚 Courses & Resources• Living in Tune — 8-Week Foundational Mindfulness Course🌐 https://www.rabbidovber.org📱 Join the WhatsApp Communityhttps://bit.ly/4qtfv3p📧 Contact: [email protected]
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Pesach Sheini - No Last Chance!
Pesach Sheini teaches us that in Yiddishkeit, there is no such thing as being too late. When a person truly yearns to come close, Hashem opens a new doorway and reminds us that He never gives up on us.This shiur explores the deep inner message of Pesach Sheini: valuing mitzvahs, longing for connection, and refusing to give up on ourselves. It is a reminder that even when we feel distant, blocked, or behind, sincere desire has the power to bring us back into alignment.🎙️ Living in Tune with Rabbi Dov Ber CohenMindfulness, Torah wisdom, and inner work for a calmer, more aligned life.📚 Courses & Resources• Living in Tune — 8-Week Foundational Mindfulness Course🌐 https://www.rabbidovber.org📱 Join the WhatsApp Communityhttps://bit.ly/4qtfv3p📧 Contact: [email protected]
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Sephirat HaOmer: Tapping into the Power of HOD
In this shiur, Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen explores the inner power of Hod during Sefirat HaOmer- the ability to acknowledge, appreciate, and see beyond the surface. Hod invites us into gratitude, humility, and a more honest relationship with ourselves and with Hashem.This is not just about saying thank you. It is about learning to notice what is already here, recognize the deeper truth beneath externals, and show up with openness before Hashem. Through the avodah of Hod, we soften the need to control and begin living with more presence, surrender, and inner alignment.🎙️ Living in Tune with Rabbi Dov Ber CohenMindfulness, Torah wisdom, and inner work for a calmer, more aligned life.📚 Courses & Resources• Living in Tune — 8-Week Foundational Mindfulness Course🌐 https://www.rabbidovber.org📱 Join the WhatsApp Communityhttps://bit.ly/4qtfv3p📧 Contact: [email protected]
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Your Negative Thoughts Are Not You - Transform the "Rah"
When a negative thought, craving, or difficult emotion arises, it can feel like something has gone wrong inside of us. In this shiur, Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen explains that these moments can actually become openings for deeper connection, if we learn how to notice them without identifying with them.Every desire and emotion contains energy that can be redirected toward Hashem, growth, and inner clarity. Through the lens of the Omer, the seven middot, and practical mindfulness, this shiur shows how jealousy, anger, craving, and anxiety can become part of the path toward a cleaner heart and a calmer mind. 🎙️ Living in Tune with Rabbi Dov Ber CohenMindfulness, Torah wisdom, and inner work for a calmer, more aligned life.📚 Courses & Resources• Living in Tune — 8-Week Foundational Mindfulness Course🌐 https://www.rabbidovber.org/lit📱 Join the WhatsApp Communityhttps://bit.ly/4qtfv3p📧 Contact: [email protected]
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Acharei Mos/Kedoshim- Kedusha in Real Life
In this shiur on Acharei Mos–Kedoshim, Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen explores what holiness really means in lived experience. Rather than escaping the physical world, he shows how Torah calls us to bring awareness, dignity, and alignment into the ordinary parts of life. Kedusha is not only about avoiding what is forbidden, but about how we relate to what is permitted.This teaching offers a grounded vision of spiritual growth: to be fully alive, deeply present, and inwardly anchored while moving through food, relationships, pleasure, work, and responsibility. It is a call to live with greater honesty, self-respect, and sensitivity, so that even everyday choices become part of avodas Hashem.🎙️ Living in Tune with Rabbi Dov Ber CohenMindfulness, Torah wisdom, and inner work for a calmer, more aligned life.📚 Courses & Resources• Living in Tune — 8-Week Foundational Mindfulness Course🌐 https://www.rabbidovber.org/lit📱 Join the WhatsApp Communityhttps://bit.ly/4qtfv3p📧 Contact: [email protected]
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Count All Day! - Sefirat HaOmer
Take this journey through Sefirat HaOmer and discover how each day can become a step in refining your middot and deepening your connection with Hashem In this shiur, Rav Dov Ber Cohen opens up the inner avodah of Sefirat HaOmer as a path of steady growth, emotional refinement, and spiritual elevation. He explains how each week corresponds to one of the seven lower Sefirot, inviting us to work on our character with intention, awareness, and heart.With warmth and clarity, Rav Dov Ber reminds us that mitzvot are meant to be done with love, vitality, and inner excitement. This is not just a countdown to Shavuot, but a process of becoming a vessel for something higher—moving toward the 50th level, beyond nature, and into deeper divine connection.🎙️ Living in Tune with Rabbi Dov Ber CohenMindfulness, Torah wisdom, and inner work for a calmer, more aligned life.📚 Courses & Resources• Living in Tune — 8-Week Foundational Mindfulness Course🌐 https://www.rabbidovber.org📱 Join the WhatsApp Communityhttps://bit.ly/4qtfv3p📧 Contact: [email protected]
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Pesach 2026 Part 3: Unconditional Love | The Freedom to Trust Yourself
Pesach is often seen as the festival of freedom, but in this shiur Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen reveals something even deeper: its essence is Hashem’s unconditional love. Before growth, before perfection, before earning anything, there is already love.This teaching explores how real freedom begins when a person stops living from shame and starts living from trust. When we know we are not abandoned, we can begin to choose differently, grow honestly, and return to ourselves with strength.🎙️ Living in Tune with Rabbi Dov Ber CohenMindfulness, Torah wisdom, and inner work for a calmer, more aligned life.📚 Courses & Resources• Living in Tune — 8-Week Foundational Mindfulness Course🌐 https://www.rabbidovber.org📱 Join the WhatsApp Communityhttps://bit.ly/4qtfv3p📧 Contact: [email protected]
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What Stories Are We Telling Our (Inner) Children? | V’Higadeta L’Vincha
In this special Yahrzeit shiur for his father, Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen reflects on the mitzvah of V’Higadeta L’Vincha through the lens of memory, inheritance, and inner growth. He explores how the stories we receive, and the ones we pass on to our children and to our inner child, shape identity, faith, and emotional life.Set in the spirit of Pesach, this shiur invites us to look honestly at the narratives we live by and to consider which ones bring freedom, dignity, and connection. It is a thoughtful reflection on legacy, healing, and the responsibility to tell a truer story.🎙️ Living in Tune with Rabbi Dov Ber CohenMindfulness, Torah wisdom, and inner work for a calmer, more aligned life.📚 Courses & Resources• Living in Tune — 8-Week Foundational Mindfulness Course🌐 https://www.rabbidovber.org📱 Join the WhatsApp Communityhttps://bit.ly/4qtfv3p📧 Contact: [email protected]
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Rosh Chodesh Nissan: Giving the Honour to Hashem
As Rosh Chodesh Nissan arrives, this shiur explores what it means to begin again- not through pressure or perfection, but through presence, humility, and renewed connection. Rabbi Dov Ber reflects on Nissan as the month of speech, relationship, and inner rebirth, where the avodah of Pesach becomes a path back to simplicity and wonder.This shiur is a gentle call to move from ego to essence, from taking to giving, and from distraction to real awareness of Hashem in creation. Through the symbolism of matzah, blossoms, brachos, and the Seder itself, we are invited to taste a more honest, alive, and aligned way of being.🎙️ Living in Tune with Rabbi Dov Ber CohenMindfulness, Torah wisdom, and inner work for a calmer, more aligned life.📚 Courses & Resources• Living in Tune — 8-Week Foundational Mindfulness Course🌐 https://www.rabbidovber.org📱 Join the WhatsApp Communityhttps://bit.ly/4qtfv3p📧 Contact: [email protected]
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Pesach 2026 Part 2: The Power to Start Again
Pesach is not only a remembrance of leaving Mitzrayim- it is an invitation to become new. In this shiur, Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen explores the deeper power of the Seder night: freedom from inner slavery, the possibility of starting again, and the unconditional love of Hashem that meets us before we feel ready.This talk opens up the inner meaning of Pesach, white garments, spiritual renewal, and the journey from confusion to clarity. It is a grounded and uplifting reflection on how to leave the prison of the mind, reconnect to the soul, and come to the Seder with joy, openness, and a willingness to begin again.🎙️ Living in Tune with Rabbi Dov Ber CohenMindfulness, Torah wisdom, and inner work for a calmer, more aligned life.📚 Courses & Resources• Living in Tune — 8-Week Foundational Mindfulness Course🌐 https://www.rabbidovber.org📱 Join the WhatsApp Communityhttps://bit.ly/4qtfv3p📧 Contact: [email protected]
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Why Comparison Is Ruining Your Happiness | Kina (Envy) | Orchos Tzaddikim
In this shiur, Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen explores the inner root of envy and why comparison quietly steals a person’s peace. He shows how jealousy grows out of ego, lack, and the feeling that someone else’s life has something ours is missing.The deeper path is not pretending envy never shows up, but learning how to notice it, loosen its grip, and return to gratitude and enoughness. This is a practical teaching on how to live with more calm, more dignity, and more trust in your own path.🎙️ Living in Tune with Rabbi Dov Ber CohenMindfulness, Torah wisdom, and inner work for a calmer, more aligned life.📚 Courses & Resources• Living in Tune — 8-Week Foundational Mindfulness Course🌐 https://www.rabbidovber.org📱 Join the WhatsApp Communityhttps://bit.ly/4qtfv3p📧 Contact: [email protected]
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Parashat HaChodesh & Vayakhel | Becoming New and Leaving Inner Mitzrayim
In this shiur on Parashat HaChodesh and Vayakhel, Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen explores the avodah of becoming new. Through the themes of renewal, intention, and inner freedom, he shows how Pesach is not a repeat of last year, but an opportunity to leave inner Mitzrayim and reconnect to Hashem with freshness and heart.This teaching weaves together the new moon, the building of the Mishkan, and the call to stop living on autopilot. It offers a grounded path for moving beyond distraction, overthinking, and spiritual dryness, and entering Pesach with more clarity, desire, and trust.🎙️ Living in Tune with Rabbi Dov Ber CohenMindfulness, Torah wisdom, and inner work for a calmer, more aligned life.📚 Courses & Resources• Living in Tune — 8-Week Foundational Mindfulness Course🌐 https://www.rabbidovber.org📱 Join the WhatsApp Communityhttps://bit.ly/4qtfv3p📧 Contact: [email protected]
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Pesach 2026 Part 1: Preparing to Receive Hashem’s Love
Pesach is not only a remembrance of leaving Mitzrayim. In this shiur, Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen opens a deeper way of approaching the Seder - as a meeting with Hashem, a night of immense divine love, and a chance to prepare ourselves to truly receive it.This teaching explores how mitzvos and moadim are meant to awaken the inner world, not only the outer form. Through learning, yearning, and simple inner readiness, we begin preparing for a Pesach that is not just observed - but deeply experienced.🎙️ Living in Tune with Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen Mindfulness, Torah wisdom, and inner work for a calmer, more aligned life.📚 Courses & Resources• Living in Tune — 8-Week Foundational Mindfulness Course🌐 https://www.rabbidovber.org📱 Join the WhatsApp Communityhttps://bit.ly/4qtfv3p📧 Contact: [email protected]
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No One Can Ruin Your Life
A sudden war, cancelled flights, and an unexpected journey through Cyprus and Egypt became a living lesson in emunah, resilience, and purpose. What began as a complicated trip home for Purim turned into a powerful reflection on how we respond when life doesn’t go according to plan. In this shiur, Rabbi Dov Ber shares three transformative lessons from the experience: learning to accept detours with calm, using challenges as opportunities for growth, and recognizing that every place we find ourselves may carry a deeper mission. Through the lens of the Purim story and Esther’s journey, we explore how to live with trust, presence, and purpose even when the path is unclear.🎙️ Living in Tune with Rabbi Dov Ber CohenMindfulness, Torah wisdom, and inner work for a calmer, more aligned life.📚 Courses & Resources• Living in Tune — 8-Week Foundational Mindfulness Course🌐 https://www.rabbidovber.org📱 Join the WhatsApp Communityhttps://bit.ly/4qtfv3p📧 Contact: [email protected]
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GIVE! Insights into Parshat Ki Tisa
Parshat Ki Tisa takes us from spiritual heights to one of the Torah’s most painful moments—the sin of the Golden Calf. Yet within that fall lies a profound lesson about how a person truly grows and reconnects.In this shiur, Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen explores how the mitzvah of the half-shekel and the story of the Golden Calf reveal a deeper truth: spiritual greatness isn’t about focusing on ourselves. The highest form of elevation comes through responsibility, generosity, and living as part of something bigger than us.🎙️ Living in Tune with Rabbi Dov Ber CohenMindfulness, Torah wisdom, and inner work for a calmer, more aligned life.📚 Courses & Resources• Living in Tune — 8-Week Foundational Mindfulness Course🌐 https://www.rabbidovber.org📱 Join the WhatsApp Communityhttps://bit.ly/4qtfv3p📧 Contact: [email protected]
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Purim: Why & How — Revealing the Hidden
Purim can be the highest, holiest day of the year—or it can turn into a loud distraction. In this shiur, Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen brings Purim back to its center: intention (“why”) and presence (“how”).You’ll learn how Purim invites you to reveal what’s hidden—your soul, Hashem in your life, and a deeper kind of joy that shows up even when nothing looks “fixed” on the outside.🎙️ Living in Tune with Rabbi Dov Ber CohenMindfulness, Torah wisdom, and inner work for a calmer, more aligned life.📚 Courses & Resources• Living in Tune — 8-Week Foundational Mindfulness Course🌐 https://www.rabbidovber.org📱 Join the WhatsApp Communityhttps://bit.ly/4qtfv3p📧 Contact: [email protected]
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Shabbos 19 - BYam Darkecha
https://link.me/rabbidovberofficial🎙️ Welcome to Living in Tune with Rav Dov Ber CohenMindfulness, Torah wisdom, and personal transformation—woven together to help you live with presence, courage, and spiritual clarity.💬 Questions, Comments, or Reflections?We’d love to hear from you.Reach out anytime: [email protected]📱 Join the Living in Tune WhatsApp Community:Get weekly inspiration, shiur announcements, and mindfulness reminders.https://chat.whatsapp.com/JgwcmzzfUUELAUDrhDnqQ8?mode=hqrt2📚 Explore Rav Dov Ber’s Courses & Teachings:– Living in Tune: 8-Week Foundational Mindfulness Course– Guided meditations, Torah-based mindfulness practices, and spiritual growth tools🌐 Visit: www.rabbidovber.org📖 About Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen:Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen is a global teacher, author, and spiritual guide whose work blends authentic Torah wisdom with practical mindfulness and emotional mastery. Drawing on decades of learning, meditation, inner work, and real-world experience, his teachings are both deep and accessible.Author of Mastering Life and founder of Living in Tune, Rav Dov Ber helps students cultivate clarity, calm, and spiritual alignment. His approach is gentle yet transformative—rooted in Chassidic depth, expressed through meaningful stories, and grounded in tools for everyday life.His mission: to help you slow down, reconnect with your essence, and live in tune with your soul.🌱 Living in Tune — helping you slow down, tune inward, and live a life aligned with your highest self.
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