A Series on Ashrei
Ms. Chevi Garfinkel has built one of her signature works around a single, familiar prayer: Ashrei. Her series — "Ashrei: A Roadmap to a Relationship with G-d," running across at least five recorded parts — slows down a tefillah most people race through and reads it line by line, treating each verse as a step toward Hashem rather than a phrase to be finished.
The patience is the point. By giving so many classes to one short prayer, she models a whole way of davening: not covering ground, but going deep, until words said by rote can start to carry real meaning again.
Gaining Strength From the Siddur
That project sits under a larger banner in her teaching — "Gaining Strength From Your Siddur." The premise is that the prayer book a person already holds every day is, in fact, a source of chizuk waiting to be opened, if only someone will show how to read it closely.
Her classes do exactly that. They turn the siddur from a text to get through into a text to draw from, teaching listeners to find, in the fixed words of tefillah, a personal and renewable relationship with Hashem.
Emunah, the Moadim, and Hard Times
Beyond tefillah, her subjects reach into emunah and the Jewish calendar. A recorded class following Eicha — delivered at Camp Sternberg — shows the range: she teaches in the moment of the moadim, meeting a day like Tisha B'Av with words suited to it.
Her corona-era chizuk classes fit the same pattern, offering strength when it was most needed. Across all of it the instinct is constant: take a familiar Jewish practice or moment and help a person actually feel their way inside it.
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At a glance
Key takeaways
- Ms. Chevi Garfinkel's signature work is a multi-part "Ashrei: A Roadmap to a Relationship with G-d" series.
- She teaches "Gaining Strength From Your Siddur" — the prayer book as a renewable source of chizuk.
- Her method is patient and close — slowing down familiar tefillos until the words carry meaning again.
- She also teaches emunah and the moadim, including a post-Eicha class and corona-era chizuk.
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