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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…”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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…”
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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.”
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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.”
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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!”
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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 …”
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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 meditations, 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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”