The Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen Podcast explores Jewish mindfulness, emotional mastery, relationships, and real inner avodah. In each shiur, Rabbi Dov Ber shares practical Torah wisdom for navigating anxiety, deepening connection, strengthening emunah, and living with greater presence and purpose. Rooted in Chassidic depth yet grounded in everyday life, these teachings are experiential, honest, and transformative. If you’re seeking clarity without pressure, growth without guilt, and spirituality that actually changes how you live - this podcast is for you.
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: livingintune.team@gmail.com
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: livingintune.team@gmail.com
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: livingintune.team@gmail.com
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: livingintune.team@gmail.com
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: livingintune.team@gmail.com
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: livingintune.team@gmail.com
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: livingintune.team@gmail.com
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: livingintune.team@gmail.com
In this shiur, Rav Dov Ber Cohen explores the inner and outer avodah of Erev Shabbat — what it really means to prepare yourself to receive the light of Shabbat Kodesh. Drawing on the Arizal and the structure of machshava, dibbur, and maaseh, Rabbi Dov Ber shows that Friday is not only about cooking and shopping, but about gathering the spiritual energy of the entire week and arriving at Kabbalat Shabbat ready to receive. He speaks with warmth and honesty about teshuva as a clearing, not a punishment. About the mikvah that sometimes happens with a mop and a floor and small children who need dressing. About saying L'kovod Shabbat over every carrot and cucumber. About the holiness of showing up for your family even when your tallis calls. This is a shiur about bringing kedusha into the real texture of Friday — not escaping it, but sanctifying it, one moment and one act 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: livingintune.team@gmail.com
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: livingintune.team@gmail.com
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: livingintune.team@gmail.com
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: livingintune.team@gmail.com
Shavuos is the day we received the Torah, yet it has no specific mitzvah of its own. In this shiur, Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen explores how that absence can reveal something deeper: our yearning for mitzvos, our desire for connection, and the joy of giving nachas to 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 📱 Join the WhatsApp Community https://bit.ly/4qtfv3p 📧 Contact: livingintune.team@gmail.com
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 Community https://bit.ly/4qtfv3p 📧 Contact: livingintune.team@gmail.com
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 Community https://bit.ly/4qtfv3p 📧 Contact: livingintune.team@gmail.com
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 Community https://bit.ly/4qtfv3p 📧 Contact: livingintune.team@gmail.com
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 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: livingintune.team@gmail.com
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 Community https://bit.ly/4qtfv3p 📧 Contact: livingintune.team@gmail.com
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 Community https://bit.ly/4qtfv3p 📧 Contact: livingintune.team@gmail.com
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 Community https://bit.ly/4qtfv3p 📧 Contact: livingintune.team@gmail.com
