Because your story is too special and sacred to stay stuck in someone else’s chapter.
Are you ready to release the pain you didn’t ask for, but no longer want to carry?
Join Rabbi Yisroel Bernath for The Forgiveness Lab, a 4-week immersive
course that gently guides you through the soulful, emotional, and embodied work of
letting go. Drawing from the deep wells of Kabbalah, Jewish healing, Chassidus, and
prayer, this is not your typical class, this is a spiritual laboratory of healing
and transformation.
Overview
Each week, you will receive a pre-recorded class and the following week we'll come
together for an embodied, emotional, and discussion-based experience. We’ll dive deep,
but safely, into the parts of ourselves that are still carrying the story of hurt,
resentment, confusion, or betrayal.
Class 1: “I Don’t Want Someone Else’s Life”
Letting Go of the Victim Narrative
In Class 1 of The Forgiveness Lab, Rabbi Yisroel Bernath will explore how resentment
quietly convinces you that someone else is in charge of your destiny. Drawing on the
story of Joseph and teachings from Kabbalah, you will learn that true forgiveness
isn’t about excusing the harm, it’s about reclaiming G-d as the sole Author of your
life. When you live stuck in blame, you hand over the pen. Forgiveness is taking it back.
This class will you help you reconnect with the part of yourself that is whole, wise,
and ready to move forward. Because your story is too sacred to let someone else write
the ending.
Class 2: “Let Go or Get Dragged”
From Re-Sent-ment to Re-Alignment
In Class 2 of The Forgiveness Lab, we dive into the nature of resentment, re-sent-ment,
literally the act of feeling something again and again. Rabbi Yisroel Bernath will
guide you in understanding the difference between pain, which is inevitable, and
suffering, which you often rehearse long after the event has passed. Rooted in both
Kabbalah and modern emotional wisdom, this class gently reveals how holding onto past
hurt keeps us stuck in cycles that were never meant to define you.
You will be invited to see how the body stores unresolved emotional pain and how to
begin releasing it. You will meet the part of yourself that keeps replaying the story
and uncover what it’s truly trying to protect. Through journaling prompts and
breathwork, you will begin to soften the grip of old wounds and open to a life of
greater presence, calm, and compassion. This class is your invitation to stop being
dragged by yesterday and start living today.
Class 3: “Boundaries Without Bitterness”
How to Forgive Without Becoming a Doormat
In Class 3 of The Forgiveness Lab, Rabbi Yisroel Bernath challenges the myth that
forgiveness means becoming a doormat. This class is about strength, not spite. You
will be invited to reframe and learn how to set healthy, loving boundaries without
needing anger as your armor.
With teachings from Kabbalah and real-world emotional tools, Rabbi Bernath will teach
that protecting our space doesn’t have to come at the cost of our soul’s peace.
Through practical exercises like “I” statements, role-play scripts, and specific cues
for recognizing safety and discomfort, you’ll learn to say no with clarity and yes to
your dignity.
You may explore the parts of yourself that confuse boundaries with rejection or fear
of abandonment and begin reparenting those parts with compassion. Because you can be
kind and firm. Forgiving and clear. And you can walk away when needed and without
walking away from yourself.
Class 4: “The One You Have to Forgive is... You”
Compassion for the Self That Couldn’t Let Go
In the final class of The Forgiveness Lab, Rabbi Yisroel Bernath will guide you
through the most tender and often most difficult act of forgiveness: self-forgiveness.
Do you carry shame, regret, and inner criticism? Drawing on Kabbalitic teachings,
the Rebbe’s guidance, and therapeutic insights, you will learn how to stop identifying
with your past mistakes and start connecting to your eternal soul, the part of you
G-d never stops believing in.
Through journaling, bedtime Shema rituals, and self-compassion practices, you may
begin to soften the voice of the inner critic and meet the part of yourself that still
feels undeserving of love. You may locate and gently unburden the parts of yourself
still holding guilt, fear, or unworthiness. This class is about remembering that G-d
has already forgiven you and it’s time to catch up. Because the final frontier of
healing is not letting others off the hook. It’s letting you off the hook.
