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• צא מן התבה- Student (October 13, 2026)
• צא מן התיבה- Faculty (October 13, 2026)
• Bloom for their Return (October 7, 2026)
• A Job Well Done (October 7, 2026)
•  From Recognition to Tefilah (October 7, 2026)
• Student Parnasut Cards (October 6, 2026)
• Az Nidbiru Elul 5786: Back to School Edition (September 8, 2026)
• Lifnim Vlachutz Yamim Noraim 5787 (September 1, 2026)
• The Educator's Journey (August 24, 2026)
• Beginning the Year (August 24, 2026)
• Self Awareness (August 14, 2026)
• Patience & Grit  (August 14, 2026)
• Music (August 14, 2026)
• Kol Yisrael (1) (August 14, 2026)
• Jewish Identity – A part of the Chain (August 14, 2026)
• Empathy (August 14, 2026)
• Dress (August 14, 2026)
• Antisemitism  (August 14, 2026)
• Kavannah in Mitzvot (July 30, 2026)
• תם: Torah and the Evil Inclination (July 30, 2026)
• ידיעת התורה: The Value of Knowing Torah (July 30, 2026)
• Teshuva for Beit Din (July 30, 2026)
• Malbin Pnei Chavero B’Rabim (July 30, 2026)
• Kiddush and Kedushat Shabbat (July 30, 2026)
• Prayer from the Darkness- Tefila Arvit Reshut (Shitas HaRif & Mei HaShiloach) (July 30, 2026)
• Believing in Your Potential (July 30, 2026)
• Kedushas HaGuf: Are you a soul with a body or body with a soul? (July 30, 2026)
• From Rock to Garden (July 29, 2026)
• רב לך (June 14, 2026)
• Standing at the Edge (June 7, 2026)
• Flow (May 27, 2026)
• Set Apart (May 25, 2026)
• Thoughts & Actions (May 19, 2026)
• Tzitzit (May 17, 2026)
• הָיִינוּ כְּחֹלְמִים (May 13, 2026)
• Counting (May 13, 2026)
• Revealing the Single Inner Thread Within (May 13, 2026)
• Gathering the Scattered: Returning to Inner Home (May 7, 2026)
• Giving and Taking (May 7, 2026)
• If Only We Knew (May 7, 2026)
• Rav Dov's Tefiluta Series (April 23, 2026)
• Middle School’s Tefillah Learning (April 22, 2026)
• The Cave of Torah (April 21, 2026)
• The Power of Speech (April 14, 2026)
• Holy Words (April 14, 2026)
• Every Person, Every Generation (March 29, 2026)
• Lifnim Vlachutz Pesach Edition 5786 (March 25, 2026)
• Vehi She’amda (March 24, 2026)
• The Power of Thank You: Lessons from the Korban Todah (March 13, 2026)
• Sacrifice (March 13, 2026)
• Where Do You Find G-d? (March 13, 2026)
• Provisions for the Road - צידה לדרך (March 13, 2026)
• On Your Own Time (March 9, 2026)
• In the Shadow of the Divine: Aesthetics and Spirituality (March 1, 2026)
• Antisemitism (February 23, 2026)
• ונהפוך הוא (February 23, 2026)
• The Hidden Hallel (February 15, 2026)
• The Avoda of Shabbos (February 11, 2026)
• The Gift of Giving (February 10, 2026)
• Clothes Maketh the Man? (February 10, 2026)
• Naaseh V'Nishma (February 10, 2026)
• Preparing for Kedusha (February 4, 2026)
• Building a Mishkan (February 3, 2026)
• G-d is in the Details (February 3, 2026)
• Set the Table! (February 3, 2026)
•  זמרת הארץ  (February 2, 2026)
• The Song of the Grass (January 28, 2026)
• הרגע שמונים אותך: מחצית השקל: The Moment They Count You: Half-Shekel (January 28, 2026)
• Becoming A Makom (January 28, 2026)
• Laughter and Expansion (January 28, 2026)
• Heart and the Place of World (January 28, 2026)
• Four Foundations (January 28, 2026)
• Teachers, Students and Faith (January 28, 2026)
• קְרָשִׁים: What Holds Your Judaism Together? (January 27, 2026)
• אָנֹכִי: The Letter That Changes Everything (January 25, 2026)
• Shabbat Shira (January 25, 2026)
• Finding My Song Within Me (January 25, 2026)
• You are the Story. . . (January 19, 2026)
• Getting out of Galut by Controlling your Ruach (January 14, 2026)
• גדולה מתוך חסרון (January 11, 2026)
• Optimist and Faith (January 5, 2026)
• It's the Small Things (January 5, 2026)
• Face to Face in the Sukkah - פנים אל פנים בסוכה (December 27, 2025)
• The Blessing of Interdependence   (December 26, 2025)
• Emotional Agility (December 24, 2025)
• Never Satisfied, Always Giving (December 22, 2025)
• Chanukah-The Power of Song (December 22, 2025)
• Never Satisfied, Always Giving (December 21, 2025)
• Are You Willing To Work For It? (December 12, 2025)
• Surrounded by Mitzvos (December 4, 2025)
• One Menorah, Many Lights (December 4, 2025)
• What's Your Name (December 4, 2025)
• Enough: Trusting in HaShem’s Abundance (December 4, 2025)
• The Jewish Story (December 4, 2025)
• Inside Out (December 4, 2025)
• The Angel Who Redeems (November 28, 2025)
• Calling From the Depths (November 27, 2025)
• Gratefully Yours- הפעם אודה את ה׳ (November 27, 2025)
• Dreaming like Yosef (November 19, 2025)
• Wrestling or Hugging? (November 19, 2025)
• Hakol Kol Yaakov - הקול קול יעקב (November 19, 2025)
• G-d Is in This Place- יֵשׁ  ה' בַּמָּקוֹם הַזֶּה (November 19, 2025)
• The Inner Struggle (November 17, 2025)
• Breaking Through to Your Wellspring (November 17, 2025)
• Who Are You? (November 17, 2025)
• Unconditional Love (November 17, 2025)
• Breaking Through to Your Wellspring (November 17, 2025)
• Lev HaParsha 5786 (November 14, 2025)
• נר דלוק, ברכה מצויה בעיסה, ענן קשור על האוהל (November 11, 2025)
• Virtual Parnasut- Miriam Schwartz (November 9, 2025)
• Sichot Ishiyot: When a Teacher Becomes a Lamplighter (November 9, 2025)
• Running To Give (November 3, 2025)
• Single Tasking (November 3, 2025)
• Calling to Hashem (November 3, 2025)
• Tzimtzum and the Kav (November 3, 2025)
• Had You Been There, You Too Would Have Grabbed on and Run Towards… (November 3, 2025)
• One Within One (November 3, 2025)
• The Long Shorter Way (November 3, 2025)
• To Be a Blessing (October 29, 2025)
• כפה עליהם את ההר כגיגית (October 21, 2025)
• After The Storm (October 17, 2025)
• The Four Seasons (October 17, 2025)
• Mitzvot By Rote (October 17, 2025)
• Breathtaking Gratitude (October 17, 2025)
• Praying for their Prayers (October 17, 2025)
• Walking with G-d, Walking with People (October 16, 2025)
• V'Avarechecha: What Makes Me Blessed? (October 16, 2025)
•  ובחרת בחיים למען תחיה (October 10, 2025)
• The Teacher as a Lamplighter (October 7, 2025)
• Klalei HaChinuch v'HaHadracha: (October 7, 2025)
• Everybody Has a Name (October 7, 2025)
• Same-Same (October 7, 2025)
• Windows or Gems: Sourcing the Light of Torah (October 7, 2025)
• Lifnim Vlachutz Sukkot 5786 (October 5, 2025)
• The Power of Stepping Forward: כח ההתייצבות (September 14, 2025)
• אחת שאלתי (September 12, 2025)
• ובכן (September 11, 2025)
• Active Listening Exercises (September 11, 2025)
• אתה זוכר (September 11, 2025)
• כי אנו עמך (September 11, 2025)
• שערי שמים (September 11, 2025)
• ושננתם לבניך (September 11, 2025)
• Finding Yourself (August 31, 2025)
• They're Not Listening! (August 31, 2025)
• Close Enough to Touch (August 27, 2025)
• אהבה רבה (faculty) (August 26, 2025)
• אהבה רבה (August 26, 2025)
• Saving What You Can (August 26, 2025)
• היום תאמצנו (August 26, 2025)
• Gather Up (August 26, 2025)
• Lecha Hashem HaTzedaka (August 18, 2025)
• מן השדה - Reflections from the Field: Making Meaning in Melbourne: (August 18, 2025)
• שאלה טובה - Good Question! (August 18, 2025)
• Kindness with Limits (August 15, 2025)
• More than a Name Tag (August 15, 2025)
• Anger (August 15, 2025)
• Making an Impact (August 14, 2025)
• Blessings Fulfilled (August 14, 2025)
• For A Change (August 14, 2025)
• Heart to Heart (August 14, 2025)
• Soft as a Reed / Hard as a Cedar (August 14, 2025)
• You shall love your neighbor as yourself (August 14, 2025)
• School's Out (August 14, 2025)
• Back From Winter Break (August 14, 2025)
• Millim, Maasim v'Geshem (August 14, 2025)
• Chayecha Kodmin (August 14, 2025)
• Kiddush and Chilul Hashem (August 14, 2025)
• Rebbe Akiva and His Students (August 14, 2025)
• Salty and Sweet (August 14, 2025)
• Sacrifice (August 14, 2025)
• Shabbat Shalom (August 14, 2025)
• Taking Account - For Now and The Future  (August 14, 2025)
• Something from Nothing (August 14, 2025)
• Intelligence (August 14, 2025)
• Stubbornness (August 14, 2025)
• Educational Inspiration from the Heart of Israel (June 13, 2025)
• Torat Eretz Yisrael in Chutz La’Aretz? (May 14, 2025)
• A Teacher in Search of Meaning (May 14, 2025)
• Tefillah: It's More Than Just The Words (May 12, 2025)
• Refinement Through Mitzvot (April 27, 2025)
• Israel in my Avodat Hashem (April 25, 2025)
• Only Skin Deep (April 22, 2025)
• Foreign Fire (April 22, 2025)
• 1- Mesorah 1:1 (April 18, 2025)
• Eretz Yisrael Niknet B'yisurin (April 17, 2025)
• Lifnim VLachutz Pesach 5785 (April 3, 2025)
• Who Are You Eating With? (April 3, 2025)
• V'Hi She'Amdah: Kriat HaTorah (April 3, 2025)
• A Blessing for New Growth (April 3, 2025)
• Pesach: Apart or A Part? (April 3, 2025)
• From Disgrace to Praise (April 3, 2025)
• Sharing Stories (April 3, 2025)
• What is your Calling? (March 30, 2025)
• Hashem calls you by name (March 19, 2025)
• קימו וקיבלו: Making Space for Those Around You (March 18, 2025)
• Advice For Adar (March 18, 2025)
• B'Yachad Nenatze'ach (March 6, 2025)
• What Do You Choose to Remember? (March 6, 2025)
• Sacrificing for Am Yisrael (March 4, 2025)
• The reason that you are here? (March 3, 2025)
• Zachor - Memory (March 2, 2025)
• M'yagon L'simcha (March 2, 2025)
• Mishkan in my Heart (February 20, 2025)
• For you were strangers in Egypt (February 20, 2025)
• Aseret Hadibrot (February 9, 2025)
• How Shall I Bless You? (February 3, 2025)
• Shiru LaHashem (February 2, 2025)
• Oskim B'Tzarchei Tzibur (January 28, 2025)
• Thank You for the Donkeys In My Life (January 28, 2025)
• V'Zakeini (January 28, 2025)
• Procrastination (January 19, 2025)
• There’s no way they’ll listen to me… (January 19, 2025)
• Kotzer Ruach (January 12, 2025)
• Who was Moshe? Who am I? Who are you? (January 9, 2025)
• ...that Hashem has given me (January 8, 2025)
• If I forget you, Yerushalayim (January 7, 2025)
• To show His love, He counts them by name (January 7, 2025)
• Your Unique Blessing (January 3, 2025)
• How old are you? (January 3, 2025)
• Family Dynamics (January 3, 2025)
• Blessings and Curses (January 3, 2025)
• Reframe the Pain (Like Yosef) (January 3, 2025)
• Up Close (December 31, 2024)
• The Educator as "Shamash" (December 31, 2024)
• How can I repay You, Hashem (Mah Ashiv)? (December 25, 2024)
• The Spirituality of Materialism (December 24, 2024)
• Avodat Hashem as a Discipline (December 23, 2024)
• Ki Tov Patar - Saying Good? (December 22, 2024)
• Akeidat Yitzchak x7  (December 10, 2024)
• Or HaNeir: Lighting the Individual and Group (December 10, 2024)
• Don't Worry Be-Tachon (December 10, 2024)
• Preparing for a Fight (December 6, 2024)
• Spiritual Struggle (December 6, 2024)
• Climbing the Ladder (December 1, 2024)
• Birthright: Generation to Generation (November 24, 2024)
• Success from Hashem (November 21, 2024)
• "Except for Acher" (November 15, 2024)
• Education as a Spiritual Practice (November 14, 2024)
• Learning Yirat Shamayim: What Inspires You? (November 14, 2024)
• Tefilah al Tefilah: She raised her voice and God heard the lad (November 14, 2024)
• Yitgaber K'ari - Finding the energy to overcome obstacles (November 12, 2024)
• Yirat Elokim (November 11, 2024)
• Rachel Weeps for her Children (November 7, 2024)
• "To everyone, at all times" (November 5, 2024)
• Thank Who for What? (October 28, 2024)
• Faith All Around (October 14, 2024)
• [Keep] Walk[ing] (October 14, 2024)
• Simchat Mitzvah or Simchat Kreiso (October 13, 2024)
• Joy Through Humility (October 13, 2024)
• Noah planted...drank...became drunk (October 10, 2024)
• Dorshim L'shvach or Dorshim L'gnai (October 10, 2024)
• Lecha Hashem Hatzedakah (September 29, 2024)
• Video: Lev Hashavua in Schools (August 28, 2024)
• Building Culture: Lifnai Vlifnim Implementation at Maayanot (August 28, 2024)
• Rav Dov Singer 18forty Podcast: Living a Prayer Life (August 28, 2024)
• Aseret Hadibrot (August 27, 2024)
• הסתפקות - Sukkot and Materialism (August 27, 2024)
• Niggun Berdichev: Give me strength to see the good (August 27, 2024)
• Avodah Sheb’lev-Rambam (August 27, 2024)
• Hadran Alach - הדרן עלך (August 27, 2024)
• Libi B'Mizrach (August 27, 2024)
• Al Hanisim: B’ymei Matityahu (August 27, 2024)
• True Rest  (August 27, 2024)
• Making Significant Decisions (August 27, 2024)
• Simcha in Torah Learning (August 27, 2024)
• Framing the Year: Birchot HaTorah (August 27, 2024)
• Bracha Rishona Cheat Sheet (August 20, 2024)
• Middle School Parnasut Guide (for students) (August 20, 2024)
• A Guide to Bracha Rishona (August 20, 2024)
• 8- Forgiveness (August 14, 2024)
• 1- Shma Koleinu: Listening to Tefillot (August 14, 2024)
• Community - 2:4 (August 14, 2024)
• Time - 2:4 (August 14, 2024)
• Embarrassment - 2:5 (August 14, 2024)
• Shinuy Hashem: A New Name  (August 14, 2024)
• Parnasut Guidelines for Facilitators (August 14, 2024)
• Letting Go to Move Forward (August 14, 2024)
• Tefillat HaDerech: Starting a New Year (Faculty) (August 12, 2024)
• Introduction to Lev HaShavua and Birchat HaShana (August 11, 2024)
• Goals and Components of Lev HaShavua (August 11, 2024)
• Returning to Lev HaShavua (August 11, 2024)
• 7- Teshuva-Return (August 9, 2024)
• 6- Da’at (August 9, 2024)
• 5- Kedusha (August 9, 2024)
• 3- Names of Hashem (August 9, 2024)
• 4- Gevurot: Rising Up (August 8, 2024)
• 2- Sfatai Tiftach - ה' שפתי תפתח (August 8, 2024)
• Sacrifice - 2:4 (August 8, 2024)
• 5- Peace - 1:12 (August 8, 2024)
• 13 - Mitzvah Kalah- 4:2 (August 7, 2024)
• Shvil HaZahav- 2:1 (August 7, 2024)
• Silence- 1:17 (August 7, 2024)
• 6- For Myself and For Others - 1:14 (August 7, 2024)
• 4- דן לכף זכות: Judging Favorably - 1:6 (August 7, 2024)
• 2- Mentorship- 1:6 (August 7, 2024)
• 3- Friendship - 1:6 (August 7, 2024)
• Mesorah - מסורה (August 7, 2024)
• KaChomer B'Yad HaYotzeir - כחומר ביד היוצר (August 7, 2024)
• Mosif V’Holeich (August 5, 2024)
• Brachot on the Chanukah Lights (August 5, 2024)
• The Teshuva of Fast Days (August 4, 2024)
• Dropping the Rope, Holding the Space & Playing Catch: My Lifnai V'Lifnim Toolbox (July 12, 2024)
• Making Space for the Lives of Our Students and Ourselves, Too  (July 12, 2024)
• Attunement, Connection, Ruchaniyut - Lifnai V'Lifnim at RKYHS (July 12, 2024)
• מה בעצם - Looking and listening deeply (July 12, 2024)
• Looking Back on a Year of Lev HaShavua (July 11, 2024)
• When God Joins Our Conversations - “אָז נִדְבְּרוּ יִרְאֵי השם” (July 11, 2024)
• Lev HaShavua With my 8th Grade Girls (July 11, 2024)
• Scaling the Lifnai V’lifnim Experience (July 11, 2024)
• Building a Community With Names (July 8, 2024)
• Lifnai Vlifnim Brings a “Ruach Chadasha” to My Teaching and to Our School (July 8, 2024)
• Lev Hashavua at the Seder (April 15, 2024)
• Open Invitation (April 14, 2024)
• Noticing Difference - מה נשתנה (April 14, 2024)
• Mah HaAvodah HaZot: What is this Work? (April 14, 2024)
• יחד בפורים (March 14, 2024)
• Being Pulled into Happiness (March 14, 2024)
• Akiva Nichamtanu (November 16, 2023)
• The Holiness of Israel (November 16, 2023)
• B'shem Avotai: Ancestor's Blessings (November 16, 2023)
• Lidrosh et Hashem (November 14, 2023)
• Counting Up (November 13, 2023)
• Introducing Parnasut (November 13, 2023)
• Faculty Lev Hashavua Launch (November 13, 2023)
• Our Listening and Hashem’s Listening  (November 13, 2023)
• What the Heck, God? (November 12, 2023)
• Working with Worry (November 2, 2023)
• Lev Hashavua: Interpersonal Gateway to Religious Experience (November 2, 2023)
• Az Nidbiru: Finding Kedusha in Conversation (November 2, 2023)
• Personalizing Torah for Today’s Student: Lessons from Israel (November 2, 2023)
• Tradition Podcast: Service of God in the Classroom (November 2, 2023)
• Petach Libi: Building a Culture of Open Hearts in School (November 2, 2023)
• The White Fire Burns (October 31, 2023)
• Akiva Nichamtanu (October 27, 2023)
• עת צרה (October 27, 2023)
• Give Me Your Hand (October 26, 2023)
• "So, Come - Let's Dance!" (October 25, 2023)
• Moon and Sun (October 3, 2023)
• B'Tzelem Elokim Bara et Ha'Adam (October 3, 2023)
• Rejected (Kayin and Hevel) (October 3, 2023)
• Menuchat Shabbat (October 3, 2023)
• Clouds and Rainbows (October 3, 2023)
• Comparing to Others (October 3, 2023)
• Listening to our Inner Selves (October 3, 2023)
• Good Advice (October 3, 2023)
• Angels (October 3, 2023)
• Zerizut (October 3, 2023)
• Are you living your Resume or your Eulogy? (October 3, 2023)
• A Full Life (October 3, 2023)
• Geir V'Toshav (October 3, 2023)
• YOLO & Esav (October 2, 2023)
• K'Yamim Achadim, The Power of Love (October 2, 2023)
• Living with Struggle (October 2, 2023)
• They couldn’t speak a friendly word to him (October 2, 2023)
• "Jacob's Spirit Came to Life" (October 2, 2023)
• The Message of Yosef: Gam Zu L'Tova (October 2, 2023)
• Banim Atem (October 2, 2023)
• The Message of the Jewish King (October 2, 2023)
• This is why I'm here (al menat kein) (October 2, 2023)
• Vidui Maaser (October 2, 2023)
• Ki Karov (October 2, 2023)
• The Impact of Torah (October 2, 2023)
• Simu Levavchem (October 2, 2023)
• Behar: A Personal Shemittah (October 2, 2023)
• Kedoshim: A Personal Take on Kedusha (October 2, 2023)
• Shabbat HaGadol: Preparation through Personal Connection (October 2, 2023)
• Davening for our Soldiers (October 2, 2023)
• Being a Religious Zionist (October 2, 2023)
• Light, praise & thanks: Chanukah gifts from one to another (October 2, 2023)
• Zichronot (October 2, 2023)
• Behavior and Identity- Preparing for ווידוי on יום כיפור (October 2, 2023)
• Faith and Fear (October 2, 2023)
• Being Forgiving to be Forgiven (October 2, 2023)
• Sefirat HaOmer (October 2, 2023)
• Giving Bracha to Apathy (October 2, 2023)
• The Avodah of Mishloach Manot: True Giving (October 2, 2023)
• Living a Life of Sacrifice (October 2, 2023)
• Simplicity and Complexity: The Relationship between Tam and Chacham (October 2, 2023)
• What is your לפיכך? (October 2, 2023)
• Every Moment of Freedom Counts (October 2, 2023)
• Finding Kedusha wherever you Stand (October 2, 2023)
• The Message of Korban Pesach (October 2, 2023)
• Moshe UBnei Yisrael (October 2, 2023)
• Complaints and Requests (October 2, 2023)
• Mamlechet Kohanim V'Goy Kadosh (October 2, 2023)
• The Oppressive Power of Speech (October 2, 2023)
• Building a Mishkan in our Hearts (October 2, 2023)
• Wearing the Uniform of Hashem's Army (October 2, 2023)
• Chachmei Lev (October 2, 2023)
• Contributing to Others (October 2, 2023)
• Bakasha #1 (September 29, 2023)
• Bakasha #2 (September 29, 2023)
• Hoda'ah - Thank You (September 29, 2023)
• Shevach- Wow (September 29, 2023)
• Kenisah - Entrances (September 29, 2023)
• Names of Hashem (September 29, 2023)
• Tefillat HaTzibur (September 29, 2023)
• Tefillat HaDorot (September 29, 2023)
• Closing Vaad (September 29, 2023)
• From Heart to Mouth (September 29, 2023)
• Reintroducing Parnasut (September 29, 2023)
• Positive and Negative Energy (September 29, 2023)
• Shalhevet Ola M'Eileha (September 29, 2023)