The Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen Podcast

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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