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Avodah Emails and Articles

A unique way to neutralize your yetzer hara?
Step-by-step methods to increase your connection during davening?
Instructions for building a “business plan” for spiritual growth?
Find those topics and much more below.
Discover a fascinating new perspective (involving the famous free will vs. predestination debate) that will inject your Tefillah with fresh meaning and engagement.

Touched by a prayer

How can we breathe sparkling life into this challenging avodah?
Touched by a prayer

Eyes of emunah

How to make davening meaningful all on our own.
Eyes of emunah

Enjoy the ride!

How to connect to tefillah from where you’re at, right now.
Enjoy the ride!

Let’s go upstairs

The transition we make when we daven – and how we can come in better prepared.
Let’s go upstairs

Email 5

Someone shared the following poem which describes the challenge in emunah I'm trying to address through tefillah.
Email 5

Getting to the heart

The key to upleveling our tefillah experience.
Getting to the heart

Bring it in

It’s not about going over the words – it’s about going into them. Last week, we ended off on a cliffhanger.
Bring it in

Chanukah clarity

What can Chanukah teach us about tangibly experiencing G-d?
Chanukah clarity

The perfect paradox

The yediyah-bechira contradiction won’t ever leave us – but is that a problem?
The perfect paradox

Nothing but the moment

Yediyah doesn’t just free us from the past.
Nothing but the moment

What happened to tefillah?

How does yediyah-focused prayer change our lives?
What happened to tefillah?

Yediyah in times like this

How yediyah give us comforting clarity in today’s painful confusion.
Yediyah in times like this

Our Jewish Secret

Why we have never given up – and never will.
Our Jewish Secret

Ani Ma’amin

How can the future Ge’ulah change our lives today?
Ani Ma’amin

The might of “mi’od”

Anything is possible when, deep down, you’re limitless.
The might of “mi’od”

How’s your davening these days?

When pain pulls down our prayers, we’re ready for a perspective shift.
How’s your davening these days?

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Avodah Guidebooks

Complete, engaging step-by-step guides to drawing practical growth and connection from key points in the Jewish calendar.

Teshuvah Within Reach

Your complete guide to a joyful productive teshuvah journey

Transform the way you view and feel about Elul and the Yamim Noraim. Get a practical roadmap for accomplishing the purpose of the days with enthusiasm and lasting success.

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Perfectly Imperfect

Clearing the path for a positve and peaceful teshuvah journey

Break through the barriers of overwhelm and discouragement keeping you from a meaningful, connected Elul season. Because you’re perfectly imperfect.

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No Better Life

A practical guide to drawing deeper joy and fulfillment from Torah living

We’ve always been told Torah offers the greatest life. This guidebook breaks down why Torah living makes for a deeply fulfilling, happy human experience – even for ordinary people like us.

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Avodah Alive

Step into a vibrant, growth filled year where closeness to Hashem takes center stage

Stop checking Torah boxes and start living your avodas Hashem. Learn how to infuse genuine interest and joy into everyday avodah. Gain deeply practical strategies for growth and change that stick.

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Reaching Higher

Eight steps to a spiritually ignited Chanukah

Eight concrete tips for gaining spiritual elevation and closeness each night of Chanukah

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Hallel

From Habit to Highlight

Watch as the separate sections of Hallel are woven into one united tapestry describing the extent, the strength, and the beauty of our unique, prized relationship with Hashem.

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The Haggadah. Your Story. Your Mission.

Your guide to drawing concrete growth from the seder

Keep family and guests engaged – and leave them genuinely inspired – by drawing them into the personal, empowering story the Haggadah seeks to share with them.

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Shiurim

Tune in to extract new levels of growth both from special Jewish calendar events and from everyday mitzvos you want to elevate.
15:45
Maintaining the High
December 25, 2025
English
12:39
Elul bloom not Elul gloom
December 24, 2025
English
14:09
Respecting Will
December 23, 2025
English
16:14
Embrace Confusion
December 22, 2025
English
6:44
Introduction to Ayin Tova
December 17, 2025
English
11:36
Ayin Tova: as a path for life
December 17, 2025
English
26:46
Ayin Tova: a life of expansiveness
May 22, 2025
English

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