Rodney Weiss, San Francisco US

“Elevation has been an amazing experience beyond words. Every masterclass has spoken directly to my heart. Mapping out and learning the mechanisms of consciousness and prayer is a true gift. Learning the ancient Hebrew terms for exactly what we are experiencing in our mind and heart has helped me get a handle to communicate these concepts clearly with others. The exercises have also brought these terms to life and strengthened my daily practices. I feel more open, more movement in my growth, more vulnerable (in a good way), and in touch with my intuition. Thank you for bringing the Elevation Program to the world. Thank you for all the work you are doing…”

Gregg DeMammos, Life Coach, Washington DC, USA

“Elevation has made a huge impact on me in a relatively short time. It’s helping me think more clearly, manage my emotions better and makes every conversation in my work and my personal life better. I feel more connected to myself than I ever knew I could. My work on myself was always missing a divine component, my life in total was missing it. I knew meditation, I work as a life coach and do the work myself every day, but now I feel so much more clear and at peace, with myself and others. Thanks to Elevation, I have a meditative practice that I really look forward to every day because it’s a relationship that feeds my soul deeply. Giving me access to divine energy is incredibly healing. It leaves me in a remarkable place, receiving so much. I am incredibly grateful.”

Hila Sion, London UK

“I write this overwhelmed with appreciation for the deeply profound experiences made accessible to me through the Elevation Mastery Program. The meditations were beautiful and heartfelt, meaningful and rejuvenating, refreshing and amazing. I have used your teachings to transform challenging emotional states into positive, or at least neutral states; to help release anxiety while studying for a tough exam; to have meaningful and transcendent prayer experiences; and to begin to understand what it means to feel God in a tangible way. You have provided me with so many valuable, practical tools which I hope to carry with me for life! Most profoundly, now that I’m doing the work, I’ve personally witnessed multiple times the major Elevation principle that, when I transform my internal response to specific challenges, those external challenges themselves melt away and resolve. Beyond all of this, the Elevation project has made it possible for me to discover a portion of my inner world that I didn’t know existed, and that has empowered me with more inner strength, confidence, tranquility and life direction than I ever knew I had within me.”

Adina Cherki

“The second day meditation technique was amazing. I started really tense and anxious and was struggling to focus, but I became more relaxed as time went on. The feelings became more and more intense until the 10-min break time where it was so powerful and then I realized I was experience the same feeling and sensation I get when I’m standing at the Kotel (the Western Wall) talking to Hashem. I never realized that I could tap into that in any other place! Even after the session I went outside to walk by myself and tears were just flowing. Not out of sadness, but pure joy, as everything I was now seeing around me in the world, while still in that state, was just so beautiful.”

Amit Yaghoubi, Rebbetzin, Lecturer, Great Neck, New York

“Sometimes I am shocked at how well my children react and handle the curveballs of life. My children are being raised on Elevation teachings, which go far beyond individual lessons that I can give over. Elevation provides a framework in which one can access his own self-knowledge and inner resilience. Instead of a new method “to add on” to the proverbial parenting tool-box, Elevation taught me how to strip away all outer layers and release the soul and depth of myself and my children. Raising children is often more about “raising parents” and by raising myself through Elevation, I have been empowered to raise kids with incredible capabilities. My home has been transformed into a place of calm exciting energy. If calm seems like the opposite of high energy, I suggest you check out what Elevation is offering…”

Daniel Fleisch, Jerusalem

“Having just completed the Elevation Program, I’ve gained a tremendous amount in terms of knowing what my inner drives and feelings are, as well as what’s really motivating me in life. And I’ve learned real skills and real tools that I continue to practice and develop further, that help me to understand myself and become the greatest person I can be, to influence the world in the greatest possible way. I’ve already received great blessing from the teachings, as had my wife, as we both did the program together. Even our son has benefited from both his parents being connected to these ideas and doing this work. As Rav Doniel often describes it, Torah’s map of human consciousness is the ultimate path to understanding ourselves, and that is what it’s been for me. I think Elevation is the greatest description of Jewish life available for our generation.”

Israel Hochman, Brooklyn, New York

“So what has Elevation done for me? Elevation has given me the power to let go of the Klonopin that I’ve been taking for more than a year. Elevation has given me more awareness of myself and more love for myself. Elevation has given me clarity on what it means to pray and what it means to believe. It’s taught me how to make changes and emotional shifts inside myself in a way that I never believed possible. For me, Elevation was better than a personal therapist… maybe because instead of getting relationship with a therapist, I got a tangible relationship with “the universe” or God or whatever you like to call it, but it really means a relationship with myself. Elevation gives you a better, closer and more accepting relationship with your self, your spouse, your friends, your family and most of all with God. It gave me a sense of connection, one that I could really experience. Which showed me I was big enough to overcome any trauma. I’ve been married and divorced, and I’m married now again. I was looking for something in Judaism and Torah that I knew was there but hadn’t been put together yet, and Elevation put it together and presented it on a silver platter. I believe that Elevation is the future of the Jewish people, and of all of us. It is a truly inspiring and life-changing program. I’m a curious person and I’ve had a lot of deep experiences and done a lot of these type of programs, but Elevation is unparalleled. It’s so huge that until you experience it you won’t get what it is, but when you do it, only then will everything I am explaining make sense.”

Nadja Marks-Shafton, Artist, Film-maker, Massachusetts

“I am so happy that you are giving us access to these ancient teachings. I’ll never be the same with this new information. What if I hadn’t heard of this? Yikes!”

Yehudah Masjedi, Entrepreneur, Los Angeles

“I have 3 children under 5 years of age and have trouble staying in control of my emotional state. After taking part in this program I find myself a different person. This material and Rabbi Katz’ teaching style is unparalleled. He is a genius, who is has focused his life on the most beautiful goal in the world; to better humanity through consciousness …”

Elisa Dewhirst, Mother/Entrepreneur, Melbourne, Australia

“Most people that know me would consider me a happy, productive and successful person. I run a successful business. I have three beautiful children and an amazing husband. I have wonderful family and friends. Yet sadly, I’ve known for a long time now that I’ve kept up a wall between them all and myself, as a kind of protection. I have spent a lot of my life feeling disconnected, angry and fearful, though I never quite realized how much, until I first started the Elevation Mastery Program last year. I was very reactive to the people around me, so I never felt fulfilled with the relationships that I had, particularly with the people close to me. On top of that, as long as I can remember, I have always suffered from physical ailments that no doctor could properly diagnose, as well as intermittently experiencing bouts of depression and anxiety for which I was medically treated. Over the years, I sort relief in many different modalities and systems, including Buddhist and New Age mediations, hypnosis and things like that. They often spoke of “expanding your consciousness” and “learning to let go”, but they all felt very superficial and ultimately, I didn’t find them very helpful. It often felt that the true capacity to reach these “higher levels of consciousness”, to “meet your true self” and “connect to The Source”, remained exclusively for Gurus in caves in forests somewhere. What the Elevation Project gave me that no one else seemed to provide was a more holistic and comprehensive approach to meditation, inner-work and accessing higher levels of consciousness. The techniques I’ve spent the last two years learning from Rav Doniel Katz have enabled me to pinpoint, identify and release blocks that I didn’t even originally realize I had. I have learned how to trust Hashem (God) and how to trust myself. How to love Hashem and love myself. Until Elevation, I was so scared to love, and I honestly believed that there was something very wrong with me. Being able to form a real connection with Hashem in a visceral way, to be able to really feel the depth of the love around me and the gift that that is, has been a game-changer in my life. I actually feel worthy of love and stronger as a person. I am learning how to draw on the infinite light I carry within, in seconds, and use it as a resource in my life. When my children are acting out, I can actually calm myself down in real time and not lose my temper. I am only human of course and there are times when my temper still takes over, but the more I practice the stronger I get — as I now finally have the tools to choose and change my responses and my behavior. I feel like I can connect more deeply to my husband, my family, and my friends. I am simply more present, calm and more focused with them. I am so grateful for this gift. And all this was just from the first level of Elevation, I can’t wait to get started on the next level.”

Samantha Pastor, Lawyer, Brooklyn, New York

“I attended your meditation seminar last week, and I was happily surprised to hear you discuss so many concepts that I have heard throughout the years in various yoga and meditation classes but now in a Jewish context and straight from Jewish sources. Having grown up more – “ish” than Jew, I never really related to Judaism, mostly because I believed it was all about sticking to certain rules like keeping Kosher. So to see that there is in fact a spiritual element was eye-opening, and I felt more connected and present than I have in any other kind of meditation.”

Chana Rus Cohen, Naples, Florida

“Rav Katz and the Elevation Mastery Classes walked into my life when I just couldn’t do this kind of life anymore. After suffering for years from chronic illness, searching tirelessly for answers which neither western, functional or alternative medicine had to offer, I could not free myself from a constant, toxic brain fog, and it was a daily struggle to live with the pain of a body that had stopped functioning normally and had developed multiple symptoms and physical ailments. My condition left me housebound for four years. My seclusion resulted in disconnection, not only from the outside world, but on most days, I couldn’t find my way to Hashem. When I began my journey through the Elevation Mastery Classes, I finally saw a light at the end of the tunnel. Each session was a gift of higher truth and clarity. With every new mechanism I learned, and each technique I adopted, my mind and heart were calmed and transformed. The classes were so full of healing energy. Since I began incorporating this Torah wisdom, I have found a path to deep healing and connection. The more I apply what our Sages taught, the more my body and energy return to their former strength and more. I am healing. My brain is clear. I go outside now. As long as I set my focus, and work this spiritual program, I am showered with the sweetest blessing of all… I am in a true relationship with the Creator, and this is something reliable, awesome and real. It is with heartfelt gratitude that I thank Rav Katz for his scholarship, and his powerful ability to share the deeper aspects of Torah wisdom.”

Yael Silverstone, New York

“The Elevation program has given my husband and I a shared language to help ourselves and each other in our growth both as individuals and as a couple. It has made such a difference in our communication.”

Cheril Dewhirst, School Principal, Victoria, Australia

“I was fortunate to grow up in a loving Christian family. I was always aware that the Jewish people were God’s chosen race. Yet I knew so little about what this really meant. I am in the habit of taking a pen and paper to bed as sometimes as I wake up I will remember a thought which has surfaced whilst asleep and I jot it down so as not to forget it. 17:4:16 was something I did not understand at the time ‘and a great truth will soon appear – something new yet really old.’ After pondering what this could possibly mean I finally gave up deciding that my Heavenly Father would give me more understanding in His good time. When Rabbi Katz visited Australia, I went to hear him speak and everything fell into place this was the new truth for me which was really old. The Elevation Program has been an incredible learning tool for me as a Christian. Rabbi Katz is so welcoming and inclusive of everyone explaining the Jewish words/terminology, sharing his wealth of knowledge, life experience, studies of the Sages writings and teachings. Rabbi Katz is a gifted teacher with a great sense of humor readily sharing his great love for Hashem and his desire that everyone will ‘directly experience Hashem’s infinite light, power, radiance and beauty’. He described the Elevation Program as a new way to think, to obtain a new way to be. As an instruction manual of the mind. Rabbi Katz created the Elevation Program to not only teach us to pray but also to live reminding us that ‘Prayer skills are life skills’. I would encourage Christian groups to use the Elevation Program as a study tool as we all strive towards the one goal of greater relationship with Hashem. Rabbi Katz reminds us that ‘God is more than an abstract belief, we can directly experience Him .. Hashem is infinitely close to us and there is no space or time between – we are bound with Hashem.”

Esther Sutton, Jerusalem

“Motivated by a health issue that challenged me greatly, I have done a lot of inner work for many years. But it is not by chance that much of what I have learned and practiced during this time is finally coming together, falling into place, and becoming more integrated, due to the additional skills and clarity I acquired from The Elevation Masterclasses. I am indebted to you, Rabbi Katz, for the arduous, persistent, and gifted work that you have done in taking these beautiful lofty concepts of Torah and bringing them into life with your ingenious exercises, demonstrating their relevance and applicability to prayer and life. Thank you for empowering me to break through some of the ‘stuck places’ and come to a deeper place of well-being and connection to God.”

Ayelet Saban, Script-Writer, Tel Aviv

“I’m not a religious Jew but I consider myself spiritual; I’ve been to ashrams in India and I have studied many different types of Judaism, like Kabbalah at the Kabbalah Centre, with Chabad and Breslov too. After hearing Rav Doniel Katz give a lecture in Tel Aviv I was so blown away and I just hoped that one he would give a course like this. I’ve just finished Level 1 of the Elevation Mastery Program and it was absolutely mind-blowing. I learned so much about myself despite the fact that I’ve done many types of these courses before. I’ve done different types of healing, different types of techniques in connecting to Source and Divine energy etc. but the Rav really took me to a way deeper place within myself — a deeper understanding of how we are made up psychologically, spiritually, and our connection to God and how it all works. I really broke through some pretty amazing blocks that I had within myself and there was a lot of self-growth. I really really hope to continue studying this amazing wisdom that comes from our Torah, which I’m so proud of. I feel so happy to be learning my own wisdom– the wisdom of my people. Instead of looking outwards I’m going inwards to my own backyard and finding greater jewels that I ever imagined to find, and I’m so grateful that Rav Doniel Katz is bringing this to all of us. This is important work not just for religious Jews, but for all Jews and hopefully for the whole world. This is enlightening important knowledge and I’m a huge supporter. Thank you, Rav Doniel Katz, and the whole team that made this beautiful course available and possible.”

Dr Yehudis Mishell, PhD, Jerusalem

“As a clinical psychologist with decades of experience and a teacher of Torah-based psychology and personal growth courses, I am very impressed with Rabbi Katz’s ability to facilitate deep and positive change in people’s lives. I have attended two of the seminars and have been profoundly affected by the depth, breadth, and beauty of the Torah sources Rabbi Katz presents and by the powerful methods he teaches for applying the insights contained therein to life. The benefits are intellectual, spiritual and emotional: closeness to Hashem and love of Torah; increased meaning in life; improved self-worth; acknowledgement of and respect for one’s spiritual self; inner harmony; and improved relationships. I myself have experienced such benefits and have received similar feedback from many of Rabbi Katz’s students over the years. Rabbi Katz is an outstanding educator. He is articulate and eloquent and he has an amazing ability to communicate the deepest feelings of the human heart and soul. He uses parables and stories to clearly and systematically explain abstruse Torah concepts so that they can be readily understood even by people with no Torah background. In addition, he uses humor very effectively to spice his lectures. This winning combination makes his teaching spellbinding. At the seminars, I, and the other students, experienced the thrill of reaching spiritual heights beyond what we ever dreamed of. And indeed, before the seminar, many of the students didn’t even have a glimmer that such levels existed. At the end of three days of very intensive intellectual and experiential learning everyone was begging for more: “When is the next seminar?”; ‘Is there a class we can come to?”; Can we have a follow-up meeting?” Rabbi Katz uses a balanced blend of didactic and participatory learning methods. The experiential exercises are a crucially important and powerful part of the program because they provide an opportunity for the students to experience and integrate the concepts being taught. They often evoke deep feeling: e.g., “It was unlike anything I’ve ever experienced…I was blown away by my own ability to calm my mind and watch my thoughts; I didn’t know I could do that. I was amazed that I could generate my own positive emotions this strongly…”, “Incredibly intense, enlightening, relieving, and liberating. I truly felt G-d’s love for me for the first time since I can remember…”

Linda Blackman, Florida

“Powerful teachings! Life-enhancing. Life changing. Rav Katz quickly got to the inner depths of my soul. Rav Katz has opened up my eyes and has shown me how to be more successful in my relationships with Hashem, family and friends as well as in business.”

Mark Naftali Horowitz, Managing Director JP Morgan, New York

“As a Managing Director at a large Wall St. investment bank, I have come to learn firsthand the defining traits that separate the great from the mediocre. It all comes down to awareness; of oneself, the client and the forces at play in the global economies. There are those that are keenly aware of their personal shortcomings and work hard to improve themselves and there are those whose perception of self is more based on wishful thinking. There are those that listen and really hear the individual sitting across the table from them and those that can’t hear anything besides the noise coming from their minds and egos. There are those that are fully awake with independent thought and those that are lulled into the easy path of following the herd and trend. The day that I met Rav Doniel was the day that my personal transformation began. The day that I learned to quiet the noise in my head was the day that I began to truly know myself, and listen to the world and people around me. It was on that day that I began to connect to the essence of who I was and no longer would I be dictated by what I thought that others wanted me to be. I learned that by freeing our thoughts, and elevating our consciousness, the results can be beyond our wildest dreams.”

Rabbi Benjy Morgan, CEO, JLE London

“Elevation has begun to catalyze the Jewish spiritual renaissance we’ve all been waiting for.“

Etty Cymet, Entrepreneur, New Jersey

“Dear Rav Doniel, FYI the aftermath of the work I did with you a while ago on the live webinar on my shame was actually life altering… I am very grateful for that and all I have gained from the seminar…Thank you!!!”

Fally Klien, Educator/Therapist, Borough Park, Brooklyn

“Learning these concepts, and having them made real to me via experiential teaching mechanisms was incredible. My connection to Hashem and Judaism isn’t the only thing that grew, but also my connection to other people and my connection to my inner self. I am a more loving wife, a calmer, more giving mother, a more dynamic teacher, and a more compassionate healer because of Elevation.”

Ayelet Shimron, Lifecoach, Public-Speaker, Author, New York

“One of the many gifts Rabbi Katz has is his ability to connect with people and inspire in his students the ability to connect with themselves. I’ve been meditating for ten years before being introduced to The Elevation Project, and can genuinely say that the material Rabbi Katz brings to the table shines a unique light that isn’t like any other form of meditation I’ve ever experienced. His teachings have given me the tools and the resources to connect to Source in a profound and real way and he incorporates authentic Torah techniques, methods that have been used and passed down to us by our sages for thousands of years. For me, one of the goals in my meditation practice has been to get to know myself and the parts of me that are, more often than not, difficult to access. This is what I’ve received every time I’ve attended a session with Rabbi Katz. I leave every session feeling more inspired, connected to our Creator, and with a deep sense of appreciation for life and Torah.”

David Meshchaninov

“I want to express my appreciation of how much I valued the Elevation Seminar. What’s really powerful for me about the Elevation tools is that professionally I do mind-body psycho-therapy and I’ve been studied the most cutting-edge modalities in his field, of how to help people work through their emotional blocks and get into touch with themselves on a deep mind body level. I’ve attended seminars in San Francisco and all around the country. I can honestly say that the concepts in Elevation are on par and as equally sophisticated as everything I’ve learned and really bring the Torah’s wisdom to the forefront, illustrating what really need for our inner developmental process and healing, and our connection to Hashem. From the deepest place in my heart I feel so strongly that this is so needed and so necessary and really in many ways the next for front of where we need to go as the Jewish people as evolving – not just doing the acts but connecting to the acts in a wholesome and deep way. and why I think it’s so necessary and such an asset for the Jewish people today. This path has been so lost and Elevation is bringing it back.”

HaRav Moshe Shatz, Shlita

“Although Rabbi Doniel Katz Shlit”a had attended my classes over the last two years, I really did not get to know him until I attended his three-day Elevation Seminar, a few years ago now. I was absolutely blown away by what I saw and heard, and I am not the type to be blown away that easily. Over the course of my life, from my youth in yeshivah until today, I have heard countless lectures from rabbis on similar subjects of mussar, tikkun hamiddos and avodas Hashem, but I have never heard anything come close to the extraordinary depth and clarity of what Rabbi Doniel Katz teaches in this seminar. The fascinating range of subjects he covered included: authentic Jewish meditation techniques, accessing daas (higher consciousness) in general and using yishuv hadaas as a preparation for tefillah, how to halt machshavah zaros (stray thoughts), how to ‘entrap’ a destructive middoh (emotion/desire) within your consciousness, a profound and clear system to work on yiras shomayim, how to allow your daas to penetrate and transform the middos themselves, as well as the authentic framework for experiencing the five levels of the soul. All this was taught exclusively from Torah sources, and he impressively showed the participants a way to reintegrate their experiences into a true Torah terminology and framework. The techniques he teaches not only helps one’s concentration in prayer, but also to control one’s thoughts in the rest of life. And remarkably he makes these deep and lofty ideas and avodos accessible to all. All I can offer him is a blessing for success in all his endeavors, and that the Jewish people will be able to learn from him how to develop themselves spiritually in the true path of our heritage. May Hashem be with him wherever he does. May all who join his seminars, classes etc. get the utmost in their growth and be conduit to bring in HaShem’s Light, Love and consciousness to the whole universe and may we all rejoice together in receiving the Melech HaMashiach speedily in our life time. May HaShem be with Rabbi Doniel Katz in all he does.”

Daniel Ritter, Partner K&L Gates, Washington DC

“From high school until quite recently, as a partner in the public policy group of a global law firm, my central focus was on professional success and security. I became interested in rediscovering Judaism in my early 40s: read a good deal on my own, studied with Rabbis in Jerusalem and Washington, DC, but after eight years I still had failed at connecting Judaism to my internal and external life. All that changed when I attended an Elevation Seminar in New York. That together with the Mastery Program videos I began to watch and re-watch thereafter, engaged me to an extent that no secular activity or religious study had previously succeeded in doing. Both the Elevation teachings and the tremendous, unexpected privilege to work directly with Rabbi Katz, have provided a uniquely meaningful opportunity to take Judaism to heart, which has substantially altered my interactions with my family, my colleagues and my clients for the better, creating a new vision for a truly meaningful, unified path forward in my life.”

Moshe Gersht, Rabbi, Jerusalem

“The Elevation Project is a game changer. In terms of its content, it blends the brilliance of Talmud, the wisdom of Mussar, the depth of Kabbalah and the inspiration of Chasidus, all beautifully woven together and delivered by Rabbi Katz. However, beyond just hearing deep ideas with a beautiful message, these classes provide tools and techniques which are truly and immediately transformative. I myself can attest to the profound change in my avodas Hashem (spiritual development) as I have found personal ways to integrate so many of these incredible gems in every dimension of my life. What was even more surprising to me, however, was after experiencing the Elevation Seminar, to then continue discovering sources for the teachings again and again in almost every part of Torah literature. Affirming and demonstrating just how authentic the Elevation System is to our Torah tradition. It is clear that Rabbi Katz has dedicated his life to connecting with Hashem and sharing that connection by enriching the lives of others. Between the rich content and the practical guidance, I can’t stress enough that everyone, at any level, has something to gain from Elevation.”

Noah Siegal, Lawyer, Chicago

“I’ve always considered myself to be a very grounded person, never one to let my emotions get the better of me. Nonetheless, I’m a deeply feeling person. The Elevation Seminar showed me practically how to access and tap into that warmth and love in a way that was still logical and resonated with my intellect. Thanks so much for the tools to open my heart willingly for practical, grounded wisdom in an area that’s notoriously difficult for me.”

Ilana Humphries, Psychologist, Australia

“Thank you Rav Doniel and those behind the Mastery Program, for what was for me a breakthrough experience. As a Jew who was raised in a secular home with little to no Jewish instruction, I have long sought to connect both spiritually and emotionally to my heritage. Further, as a Psychologist I have needed to find a way of doing that which was congruent with and satisfied both my intellectual and professional background and understanding. The Elevation Mastery Program came at a time in my life when I most needed it. After an already difficult and traumatic year medically and half way through the Elevation Program I was diagnosed with a serious illness. I found that I was able to use the meditation techniques to help me manage my response to the surgery and subsequent treatment with a calm, composure and a connection to Hashem not previously possible for me. A second beautiful bonus for me was that I also shared Elevation with my friend (also a psychologist) who found Elevation equally as transformative as I did, and with my daughter who has also gained immeasurably from the process.”

Leah Mintz, New York

“I attended your seminar this weekend in New York. I was so uplifted and connected and now I’m working hard to integrate all that I learned into my life. It’s helped me a lot so far with my daily davening (prayers) as well handling the ups and downs of daily life. I’m so appreciative to the entire staff of the Elevation Project for making these great concepts accessible to us in such an enjoyable and loving way. It means a lot to me to have a sense of community with those who seek the same truth, values, and connection as I do. Thanks again, looking forward to learning more soon!”