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Rabbi Aryeh Nivin's Chaburas This Elul

Mia Sherwood Landau: Posted on Thursday, August 29, 2013 7:50 AM

Participating in Rabbi Aryeh Nivin's Ladies Chabura 5774 is truly a blessing in this season of Elul. His live coaching/teaching by phone brings the essence of my life purpose into sharp focus for at least an hour per week, infusing it more and more into my everyday life. Participating in the Ladies Chabura connects me with women all over the world, and it also connects me deeply with myself, with my soul.

Rabbi Nivin has a unique and very, very important message that has awakened my own Yeud, my life purpose, which is definitely reflected in my writings on this blog. My Yeud reveals my essence and and satisfies the longing of my neshama, my eternal soul.

"When you have a Yeud moment

it answers the question -

Is this what my life is all about?"

Rabbi Aryeh Nivin

What a deeply satisfying pleasure to be able to say, "YES," and to watch the petals of my growing sense of purpose unfurl into a beautiful, blossoming thing. I am definitely blooming where I am planted in this life now.

Baruch Hashem! Here, listen to Rabbi Nivin's brief explanation of your Yeud, ... "a light that ONLYYOU can bring into the world... The understanding of your life's purpose is like a lantern in the darkness."

By the way, you won't find much on the subject of Yeud on the web. Shuli Kleinman has a blog post on Yeud and Tikun. It is rather deep, and assumes a considerable knowledge of Hebrew concepts.

And you may find a few unfortunate associations with altered states of consciousness and musical groups and political parties, too. But this is not what the concept of Yeud really means.

That is why I connect to Rabbi Aryeh Nivin's authentic life coaching in the substance and potential available to us all when we discover and honor our Yeud in our daily lives.

His years of work with Aish.com and experience in life coaching put him in a unique position to help me, and many other people to find and to fulfill our unique contributions to the world. It's good to have a coach for what truly matters, and what seems so hard to find in life.

OK, I know we don't really get a a diploma, a degree or designation for our genuine spiritual growth. But I have to admit that receiving the certificate pictured below has been a precious reminder that I have made progress and that it's my responsibility to put my progress into practice each day.

It works for me!

Rabbi David Aaron on Emunah - Faith is a state of being

Mia Sherwood Landau: Posted on Monday, August 26, 2013 9:16 AM

Back in 2005, Rabbi David Aaron of www.Isralight.org recorded several hours of audio teaching he called an Emunah Seminar, and his words are enlivening my studies this Elul 5773.

Here are are few quotes from his teaching called The State of Being, which describes our faith as who we are, as part of our core essence we can tap into when we are willing to set aside distractions:

"Faith is not a collection of ideas,

faith is a state of being."

"Rav Kook explains that faith is the revelation of the Self, of yourself. It is the basic self-revealing of your inner essence.

It is not something that you achieve, that you accomplish in the sense of adding more information, amassing more knowledge.

It's actually something that you need to release from yourself, in essence."

"Emunah is the basic self-revealing

of the essence of the soul."

Rabbi David Aaron

The Precious, Predictable Opportunity of Elul

Mia Sherwood Landau: Posted on Tuesday, August 06, 2013 6:38 PM

Here we are again this year... How blessed to have a Creator who gives us, year after year, an opportunity to look at our lives and see where we could make some improvements.

And then he says, in a genuine and loving way, "Please take some time to see how much better it can be with Me. Look and see, and simply ask."

That is not a translation of anything written in Hebrew. It is the simple expression of my love in this season of Elul, this special time of introspection and forgiving myself, so that I can forgive others and grow.

Elul has been a big part of my growth for many years, and this year of 5773 is fixin' to be spectacular! Care to join me?

Like a diamond in the rough

Mia Sherwood Landau: Posted on Friday, June 28, 2013 7:52 AM

When we are challenged, our consciousness has to shift.

It's not about the other person changing to please us.

It's about how much we can change.

All our frustrations are there to give us the opportunity to change ourselves.

Everything that gives me an opportunity to change and grow, to elevate my consciousness, is a gift to me.

These are the diamonds that our soul is here to collect.

Yehuda Sivan, 10/2011, Dallas TX

Rabbi Aryeh Nivin's Chaburas for Life Purpose

Mia Sherwood Landau: Posted on Tuesday, March 19, 2013 12:16 PM

I graduated from Level 1 of Rabbi Aryeh Nivin's Chabura this week. Here is my certificate. Of course it's not the piece of paper that's important, but my personal understanding of my life's purpose and my particular, unique responsibility to repair the world.

Rabbi Nivin calls these two soul imperatives by their Hebrew names - Yeud and Tikkun.

I learned how to identify who I am, what I have brought to this world to accomplish (that nobody else can), and how to stay on track in my busy life.

What a precious, much-needed gift for my eternal soul!

Rabbi Nivin's courses are taught by teleseminars that can be accessed live on your cell phone, and the recordings are posted online for access 24/7.

Here's a short, powerful audio sample of Rabbin Nivin's teaching that will enliven your understanding of your own soul's purpose and encourage you forever!

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