In this shiur on preparing for Shabbat, Rav Dov Ber Cohen explores the deeper meaning of Malbushei Shabbat, the special clothes worn for Shabbat. Drawing from the Arizal, Rabbeinu Chaim Vital, and Kabbalistic teaching, Rabbi Dov Ber reveals how physical clothing mirrors the levushim of the neshama: thought, speech, and action.

He introduces the concept of or makif, the surrounding spiritual light that expands on Shabbat, and explains how Shabbat garments serve as an outer expression of this heightened inner reality. The neshama yeseira, the additional soul received on Shabbat, calls for a corresponding elevation in how we present ourselves to the world.

This teaching is an invitation to stop misidentifying with the external and to use clothing, presence, and Shabbat itself as a path toward recognizing who we truly are: radiant neshamot yearning to return to Gan Eden.

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In this Elul shiur, Rav Dov Ber Cohen explores the courage it takes to begin again — not once, but year after year, with the same list, the same struggles, and the same invitation to grow. Drawing from the teachings of Beyam Darkecha, he reframes the Jewish calendar not as a cycle of repetition that wears us down, but as a series of deepening encounters where every mitzvah, every tefillah, and every act of chazara refines the neshama in ways we may not immediately feel.

Rabbi Dov Ber speaks honestly about the weight of carrying our issues alongside our avodah, the difference between neurotic urgency and genuine emunah, and what it looks like to be a Sim Shalomdike Yid — someone who brings full presence to the moment that remains, rather than collapsing under the one that was lost. This shiur is a grounded, warm invitation into Elul as a place of self-compassion, honest effort, and renewed bitachon.

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In this shiur, Rav Dov Ber Cohen maps out the inner architecture of a human being — neshama, ruach, and body — and asks the essential question: who is actually in charge? He teaches that the body is not the self but the vehicle, and that the voice of the neshama grows quieter the more we feed the animalistic drive of the yetzer hara through craving, honor-seeking, and distraction.

Rabbi Dov Ber introduces prishut — self-control — as the foundational practice of spiritual identity. Through small, daily acts of restraint in food, speech, technology, and physical comfort, we train the inner muscle that matters most: the ability to choose the soul's voice over the body's noise. Every moment of prishut is a declaration that you are not your cravings, not your ego, and not your reflection in the mirror.

This is avodah that begins in the ordinary and reaches toward true kedusha.

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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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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.

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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.

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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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