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From Loss to Hope: October 7, Three Years Later — The Jewish Courage to Keep Building | Keynote Address West Island Community Memorial Event
What Will Live Because You Lived? | Rabbi Bernath's Sermon for Neilah 2026
Is Someone Doing Your Thinking For You? | Rabbi Bernath's Sermon for Kol Nidrei 2026
The Secret Israel Knows About Happiness | Rabbi Bernath's Sermon for Shabbat Shuva 2026
The Forgiveness Experiment: Take Back the Pen, Put Down the Poison
The Wall That Wasn’t There | Rabbi Bernath's Sermon for Rosh Hashanah Day 2 5787
The Shofar We Are: Wake Up to Something - Rabbi Bernath's Sermon for Rosh Hashana Day 1 5787
Growing Older, Growing Deeper: How to Make Your Years Count - Parshat Ki Teitzei • Elul • The Gift of a Life Fully Lived
Love Is Not Found. It Is Built. | 10 Jewish Relationship Truths for Tu B’Av
Help Us Keep the Light Going: A Special Message from Rabbi Yisroel Bernath
The Gift of Feeling Too Much: Why Your Sensitivity Is Not Your Weakness.
The G-d Question: Beyond the Bearded Man in the Sky | A Candid Discussion.
Who Really Wrote the Torah? A Conversation on G-d, Truth, and the Power of Ideas
The Blank Tanach and the Book We Need in the Wilderness | Parshat Beha’alotecha
The House of David & The Forgiveness Experiment
The Story of Ruth: Loss, Loyalty & Redemption
The Kingdom Within: Presence, Dignity & the Courage to Receive - Entering the Week of Malchut
Real Connection, Not Just Chemistry: Entering the Week of Yesod
The Courage to Soften: Entering the Week of Hod
The Strength to Keep Going, Even When You Don’t Feel Like It: Entering the Week of Netzach
The Heart of Balance: Entering the Week of Tiferet
From Egypt to Opening Doors: How to Break Through What’s Holding You Back
The Kabbalah of the Passover Seder
Rabbi Bernath’s Passover Seder: A Guide to Preparing for a Night That Can Change You
Pre-Passover Special - When the Chains are Invisible
This Passover: How to Finally Break Out of Feeling Stuck
When, Not If: Why Your Mistakes Might Be Your Greatest Strength
The Life You Dreamed vs. The Life You’re Living
Finding Holiness in the Fragments of Life: The Kabbalah Secret of the Broken Tablets
When the Street Starts Singing: Drowning Out Haman, Then and Now...
Going “All In” for the Right Things
You’re Not Broken, You’re Layered: The Kabbalah of Showing Up Even When You Don’t Feel Golden
Who’s in Charge: Your Emotions or Your Values?
You Don’t Have to Be Born Jewish to Choose Judaism
The Forgiveness Experiment Book Launch | Rabbi Yisroel Bernath in conversation with Ilana Zackon
Who Sang First? Leadership, Voice, and Finding the Song Within
Why the Hardest Moments in Life Are Invitations, Not Obstacles.
Freedom Begins When We Stop Tolerating
Turn Your Head... How Moses Found His Calling and How You Can Find Yours
The Greatest Light That Could Only Come from the Deepest Darkness
After Bondi Beach Attack: Chabad Answers Darkness with Light!
Are the Jewish People Really the Chosen People?
A New Way to See Charity: When Giving Becomes Receiving
In Conversation with Rabbi David Eliezrie | UNdaunted: How the Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn Saved Russian Jewry, Reimagined American Judaism, Ignited a Global Jewish Renaissance
Climbing Jacob’s Ladder: The Four Worlds & The Journey of Prayer
Gratitude in Crazy Times: How Rachel Taught Us the Secret to Staying Whole
Why Laughter Might Be the Holiest Thing in Your Relationship
Waking Up to the Gift of Time
When the Flame Goes Out: Finding Your Spark in the Empty Vessel
AMA: Am I less of a Jew because I was raised Reform?
Do I Hear the Call? Lech Lecha.
The Hero for the Simple People: Turning the Story of Noah on it’s Head
The Divine Split: How Genesis Reveals the Secret to Love, Gender, and G-d
The Dance of Return: Joy That No Enemy Can Steal
Building Joy in a Shaky World | Rabbi Bernath’s Sermon for Sukkot 2025
Be the Breeze: The Power of One Soul on Rosh Hashanah
Laughing Into the Future: The Promise of Rosh Hashanah | Rabbi Bernath's Sermon for the Rosh Hashana 2025
Who Are You Meant to Be? | Rabbi Yisroel Bernath Rosh Hashanah Sermon
Make a Confession: Reclaiming Judaism’s Lost Art of Owning Our Goodness
Finding G-d in Our Struggles: The Firstborn of the Unloved
One G-d, Many Voices: How Diversity Makes Us Whole
Rebroadcast: Elul & High Holidays - Our Marriage with G-d
Integrity & Ambition: The Torah’s Blueprint for Shining in a Broken World
Life, Love, and Everything in Between | A Conversation with Jeffrey Warner
Why Joseph Got In and Moses Didn’t: Unpacking a Story of Loyalty, Land, and Leadership
Eicha by Candlelight - Tisha B’Av 5785 (2025)
Vain Tears: Reclaiming Our Power After Generations of Silence
Moses’ Rebuke & the Art of Receiving Criticism: A Parsha Perspective on Self-Esteem
The G-d Question: Beyond the Bearded Man in the Sky | A Candid Discussion.
Cursed to Bless: The Unlikely Prophet and the Eternal People - An Overview of Parshat Balak
Who Really Wrote the Torah? A Conversation on G-d, Truth, and the Power of Ideas
A Personal Message from Rabbi Yisroel Bernath
The Serpents: When the Poison Becomes the Cure: Finding Healing in the Very Place You Were Hurt
The Mutiny: Moses, Korach, and the Relentless Pursuit of Peace
The Thing I Fear Most Is Fear: From Vain Tears to Healing Power with Rabbi Yisroel Bernath
Stillness in the Storm: How to Find Peace in a Fragmented World
Nuclear Soul: How One Person Can Change the World!
The Crown Returns: Torah, Memory, and the Story We Still Carry | Rabbi Bernath’s Sermon for Shavuot
Special Shavuot Discussion: The Guarantors: Why G-d Chose the Children?
From Adrenaline to Identity: What It Really Means to Live Jewish Today | Rabbi Bernath’s Shabbat Sermon
Still the Chosen People: Finding Value After Tragedy
Life Is a Wedding: The Inner Celebration of Lag B’Omer
The Silence That Spoke Too Loud: A Midrashic Look at Courage, Complacency, and Consequence
Don’t Only Look at the Disease — See the Person: The Torah’s Hidden Origin of Holistic Healing - Rabbi Bernath on Parshat Tazria
Inspiration, Conception, Attraction & Competition - The Inspirational Sefirot | Thursday Kabbalah with Rabbi Yisroel Bernath
Parshat Shmini | What's More Important Motive or Deed?
Passover | Next Year in Jerusalem!
Silencing Inner Pharaohs: The Power of Untranslated Truths
No Dialogue, Just Endless Love: A Pre-Passover Journey into the Soul of the Seder
Passover | Transforming Pain into Blessing
Reclaiming Passover as a Value | Live Class @ Federation CJA in Montreal
Passover | Why Did G-d have to Kill the Firstborn?
The Living Memory of Passover: Insights for your Seder Table with Rabbi Yisroel Bernath
Passover | The Meaning of Karpas
Passover | What Frogs can teach us about Values
Invite Yourself to Freedom: Five Life-Changing Insights from the Seder
Passover | Who is the Wicked Son?
Passover | Four Questions are Really Four Answers
Fire, Ice, and the Narcissist King: A Lesson in Humility and Empathy
Passover | Come and Eat