The Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen Podcast

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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