The Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen Podcast

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.

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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.

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Mindfulness, Torah wisdom, and inner work for a calmer, more aligned life.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Living in Tune with Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen
Mindfulness, Torah wisdom, and inner work for a calmer, more aligned life.

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