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I love reading Rabbi Yosef Farhi’s columns, which are so full of wisdom and practical advice. He is a truly caring person, who is devoted to helping people grow and develop their spiritual potential.

- Dr. Miriam Adahan, psychologist and author

I have been reading your Parsha-sheet for 7 years. Its ideas are deep, original, inspiring yet surprisingly simple and well sourced.

- T S

Thanks to you Rabbi Farhi, seeing as I never have time to keep up with the weekly Torah Portion, now I feel like you’ve been guiding us every week to hear the unique messages Hashem is communicating through the Parshat Shavuah.  These "Torat chaim" life principles make the Torah and our connection to Hashem come alive.  I so appreciate this learning and look forward to continuing after the holidays.

- Devorah Yaffar Singer

The effective learning course is not just a course that if you have understood it, good for you, and if not you wasted some money. Rabbi Farhi makes sure that each person signing up for the course benefits from the tools taught and is able to use them.

-M. S. Spitzer

I would like to grade the "thinking about me" weekly newsletter. I give it a 4 p's. I find that it delivers Profound jewish Perceptions. Its style is of understanding and using the common person's Psychology "midot" and way of thinking, and most important, it leads us with Practical ways of applying those most important concepts into our lives.  i wish rabbi yosef much hatzlacha in bringing people closer to hashem by guiding them to be better people.  
with best wishes,
 - Avraham Goldstein, Mohel in Jerusalem

I've been a regular reader of Rabbi Farhi's weekly Divrei Torah, since he began publishing them. In particular I enjoy how he brings the Jewish angle to universal philosophical, psychological, and practical issues. Very rewarding reading.

- Raphael Zeevi, New York

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Thank you Rabbi Farhi, for the very real, relatable, heartfelt, and inspiring divrei Torah. I learned a lot from the shofar shiur you gave last week. Toda raba! 
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Dear Rabbi, I just want to say how much i have been inspired by your weekly torah email thinking of me. It strikes a note with me each time i read it.I look forward to receiving it each week . you should be matzliach with your new web site. Keep writing these amazing weekly parsha sheets.

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Thanks so much for your amazing advice and techniques! The wisdom you share is practical, sensitive, insightful and can be used to help people properly set and achieve their goals in all aspects of life.
 

- Moshe B. Monsey NY

It is a shame that you do not print out Bein Hazmanim your Parshe Sheets because they really boost me up. Seriously.

- David F, Israel

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- Avigdor, Brooklyn

Hello Rabbi Farhi, My husband and I wait every week to read your weekly dvar torah. We would like to receive them by email if possible. Thank you

- Anonymous, Israel

אבא שלי, אמריקאי מבני ברק בן 88 עד מאה ועשרים אוהב מאד מאד את פרשת השבוע של הרב פרחי. הוא מבקש ממני בכל יום חמישי אחהצ שאדפיס לו את מה שכתב הרב על הפרשה. בשבועות שאין זה ממש ממש חסר לו. הוא אוהב את השקפת עולמו ואת הפסיכולוגיה שמאחורי המילים.
יישר כוח על האתר.

- Anonymous, Israel

Hi rabbi! I am a former student in yeshiva Lev Aharon and I want to thank you for your weekly Dvar Torah that you send out every week, I enjoy it very much! Every week I print it out and even make a few copies to spread it around my shul so not only I can read this amazing Dvar Torah, but so can other people!

- David, NY

Unbelievable! Awesome! Mamesh the highest!

- Anonymous

Thank you I really enjoy how you integrate your coaching knowledge with the Parsha. I fwd it on to many.

- C S, Ramot

Rav Farhi Hi, i am writing to you beacause i love the Dvar Toires that you write every week. Would you be able to send me all the Dvar Toires of this year. Best regards

- E M, Mexico

Shalom my name is Mendy and I was wondering/hoping you'd be able to continue sending the weekly vort its has helped me tremendously in the past and I'd appreciate it greatly if this would be possible. thank you so much. Shabbat Shalom

- Mendy F

Your weekly “ThinkingaboutMe” are uniformly excellent, and are helping many people. Keep up the very good work. Yeyasher kochachem, v’chazak ubaruch.

-E F, Jerusalem

greetings rabbi farhi. a big yasher koach for your very interesting weekly - it is much appreciated by many, is amusing, educational and always brings out a very good point. wishing you continued hatzlacha to inspire klal yisroel!

- A T, Jerusalem

Hi rabbi! I am a former student in yeshiva Lev Aharon and I want to thank you for your weekly Dvar Torah that you send out every week, I enjoy it very much! Every week I print it out and even make a few copies to spread it around my shul so not only I can read this amazing Dvar Torah, but so can other people!

- David, NY

Lechavod Rabbi Farhi, I did receive your video and I also think it is very true!!!! It put pieces together and made a lot of sense!!! Thank you very much!!! And will defiantly pass on!!!

- B G, Jerusalem

Hi, Can you send me your parsha. It’s really good. You must put a lot of work into it. Can you also send me a copy of last week’s.

- Y, Neveh Yaakov

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- Mordechai, Yerushalayim

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Latest "Thinkingaboutme" Articles

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By Yosef Farhi | 11 October 2024

click yom kippur 2024 to download THE ART OF MEANING WHAT YOU SAY The happiest moment of the year is the Shehechianu blessing during Kol Nidrei. That first moment of the Holy Day is so powerful, it’s worth living 70 years just to experience it. It’s as if, for that single moment, it’s worth coming…

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THE ART OF HAVING A SHANA TOVA

By Yosef Farhi | 27 September 2024

click rosh hashana 2024 for download THE ART OF HAVING A SHANA TOVA The choice of an apple on Rosh Hashanah is no accident. The apple, more than any other fruit, is closely tied to the blessing we offer each other: שנה טובה ומתוקה , “May you have a good and sweet year.” יהי רצון…

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THE ART OF GRATITUDE AND REDEMPTION

By Yosef Farhi | 20 September 2024

click ki tavo 2024 for download THE ART OF GRATITUDE AND REDEMPTION The reason we read Parshat Ki Tavo, with its barrage of curses, before Rosh Hashanah is rooted in the principle of “Tichleh shanah v’klaloteha”—let the old year and its curses fade into history—so we can step into the new year with “Tachel shanah…

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Latest Podcast Episodes

IN A DRONE’S EYE VIEW

By Yosef Farhi | 27 June 2018

How does a person deal with the things in life when they get out of control. How should one react when one gets hit with the hardest things in life, the things that were least expected. 

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Calm, Content, and Confident

By Yosef Farhi | 22 June 2018

How can we contain the negativity we have about life, and disregard it, instead of letting it take over our lives? Why is it so important to focus on the positive? What can we do to keep us far away from the negative and to make the positive stick?

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Chasing Sparks

By Yosef Farhi | 13 June 2018

Why is it so important that we keep getting inspired, if we aren’t yet changing? What can we do so that our children will merit spiritual inspiration?

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