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In this shiur, Rav Dov Ber Cohen teaches the fifth and deepest path of Jewish spirituality: meditation. Drawing on classical Hebrew terms and vivid imagery, he distinguishes between passive meditation — the work of calming and clearing a restless mind — and active meditation, where one consciously chooses the inner landscape of thought, gratitude, and connection to Hashem. Rabbi Dov Ber introduces the foundational concepts of yishuv ha-da'at and menuhat ha-nefesh, peace of mind and genuine inner rest, as the bedrock of all avodah. He explains how conscious breathing is not merely a wellness technique but a direct pathway to the neshama, rooted in the Torah's account of Hashem breathing life into Adam. The shiur weaves together the metaphors of a garden, a whiteboard, and a car journey to illuminate how meditation clears what was never chosen and replaces it with what is true. 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]

In this rich and layered shiur, Rav Dov Ber Cohen draws on the image of the Shabbat candle to illuminate the deepest structure of the neshama. The flame, he teaches, has two parts: the part that burns against the wick, transforming physicality into energy, and the part that rises above it, spreading light into the world. These two parts mirror the two dimensions of the soul — that which purifies our inner life and that which radiates outward into everything around us. Rabbi Dov Ber weaves together kedusha, ahavah, simchah, and the spiritual architecture of Shabbat into a single, coherent vision: we are not here to escape the physical, but to refine it. Lighting Shabbat candles becomes an act of inner alchemy — releasing the weight of the week and opening to the taste of Olam HaBa that Shabbat carries. A shiur for anyone seeking to understand what it truly means to let their light shine. 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]

In this opening shiur on Yesod VeShoresh HaAvodah, Rav Dov Ber Cohen introduces the foundational vision of Rabbi Alexander Ziskind, an eighteenth-century Lithuanian master whose sefer bridges the depth of Kabbalah with the practical discipline of mussar. Rather than presenting mussar as harsh self-criticism, Rabbi Dov Ber frames it as Chassidic mussar, a path of motivated, wholehearted growth carried with sweetness and compassion. The shiur opens with the core teaching of the sefer: yirah is not fear but a way of seeing. When a person truly perceives Hashem's presence and greatness, ahavah and avodah flow naturally from that place. Love, character refinement, and service are not separate disciplines but the organic fruit of genuine yirah. Rav Dov Ber draws on the pasuk in Devarim to show that the kavana behind every mitzvah, from tefillin to netilat yadayim, can become an act of bringing Hashem nachat ruach and revealing His presence in the world. 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]

In this shiur on Shabbat candles, Rav Dov Ber Cohen draws a luminous thread from the Or of creation all the way into the Friday night home. Light, he teaches, is not merely physical. It is the most accurate expression of Hashem available to our senses — selfless, without limitation, giving always for the other. Rabbi Dov Ber explores how the candle itself encodes the structure of the neshama. The fuel, the wick, and the flame spell nefesh — the part of the soul that anchors us into the body. Lighting Shabbat candles is not only ritual. It is the moment when body and soul, so often at odds during the week, are drawn into shalom with one another. He also reflects on the role of the Jewish woman as a vessel for the Shekhinah, whose presence she draws into the home through this mitzvah. As Tisha B'Av approaches, this teaching carries particular weight: bringing in Hashem's presence, one candle at a time. 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]

In this shiur, Rav Dov Ber Cohen addresses one of the defining struggles of modern life: the relentless striving, comparing, and craving that leaves people exhausted yet unable to rest. He draws a careful distinction between vegging out and true Menucha, the settled, fully present ease that Shabbat brought into creation as its crown. Rabbi Dov Ber traces the soul's architecture, from Nefesh through Ruach into Neshama, and shows how Menuchat HaNefesh and Nachas Ruach are not luxuries but prerequisites for tapping into genuine Oinek, the deep delight of Gan Eden that flows into our consciousness when we stop chasing. The Kina, Taiva, and Kavod that drive modern anxiety are named honestly, and the breath, the body, and the Torah itself are offered as the path back. 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]

In this Sukkot shiur, Rav Dov Ber Cohen invites us into the deeper avodah of לישב בסוכה — not merely sitting inside four walls, but arriving fully present within a space he describes as a Shechinah compression chamber. Moving from the yirah of the Yamim Noraim into the ahavah of Sukkot, he traces how the season shifts from awe and distance into intimacy and divine embrace. Rabbi Dov Ber unpacks the sukkah as a teaching on impermanence: the sechach is drying, the arba minim are fading, and everything visible is temporary. This is not a cause for sadness, but an invitation to anchor our simchah in emunah and neshama rather than in the material world. He also guides the listener through the lulav and etrog as a practice of conscious ownership — values, heart, sight, and speech — taken deliberately into hand. The closing image is simple and beautiful: sitting alone in the sukkah, breathing deeply, held. 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]

In this shiur, Rav Dov Ber Cohen reframes teshuva not as a word of burden or guilt, but as a warm and healing return to one's truest self. Drawing on Shabbat Shuvah and Parshas Ha'azinu, he teaches that the neshama's natural state is love, joy, and awe, and that teshuva is simply the act of remembering where we come from. Rabbi Dov Ber weaves together the inner meaning of Shabbat, the practice of presence, and the silence that underlies all of creation. He shows how menucha is not rest from exhaustion but a return to the stillness that was here before creation began. The yetzer hara, he explains, arrives precisely when we are on the verge of something holy, which is itself a reason for encouragement rather than despair. This shiur is a call to stop running, look up, and recognize that you are never truly disconnected from Hashem. 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]

In this shiur, Rav Dov Ber Cohen reframes Yom Kippur not as a day of dread but as the happiest day of the year — a day when Hashem floods the world with love and invites us to wipe the slate completely clean. Drawing on the image of the neshama as a light bulb covered by layers of paint, he explains how aveiros do not damage the soul but obscure its light, and how teshuva restores what was always there. Rabbi Dov Ber teaches that teshuva has two stages: first the ratzon, the genuine desire for the relationship, and then the action that proves it. He challenges the tendency to either collapse into shame or coast on divine love, calling instead for a middle path of joyful, motivated self-examination. Practical guidance for the Aseret Yemei Teshuva is offered with warmth and honesty, including how to face the yetzer hara when it arrives to weaken our preparation. 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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]