Learning the classic mussar seforim
Much of Rabbi Farhi's teaching is a steady walk through the great works of Jewish thought. His series on the Ramchal's Da'at Tevunot ("Knowing Hashem's Plan") takes up the sefer's deepest questions — that Hashem is not a sum of parts, and that the ultimate tikkun of creation will come about regardless. He carries these ideas slowly, so that a listener follows the Ramchal's logic rather than just admiring it from a distance.
He also teaches Chovot Halevavot, Rabbeinu Bachya's "Duties of the Heart," with special attention to its Sha'ar HaBitachon — the gate of trust. A class titled "Bitachon in Relationships — I'm Alone!" shows the approach: an ancient chapter on trust in Hashem is brought straight into the lived feeling of loneliness. The seforim stay central, but the questions they answer are the ones people actually carry.
The Daily Reflection series
Alongside the longer seforim shiurim, Rabbi Farhi records short "Daily Reflection" pieces — brief, self-contained thoughts meant to be taken in once and chewed on for a day. Titles like "We Care Too Much About What 'They' Will Say" and "They Don't Know What I Know" name a familiar inner struggle in a single line, then turn it toward a Torah perspective.
These reflections lean on a recurring idea — that "there's always another side of the coin." Rather than argue a person out of a hard feeling, they gently widen the frame, offering a second way to read a situation that had seemed closed. It is mussar sized for a busy day: short enough to actually listen to, pointed enough to change how the next hour feels.
Tefillah, hashkafa and growth
Prayer and Jewish philosophy sit at the center of Rabbi Farhi's subjects. His shiurim treat tefillah not as a text to get through but as a relationship to build, and his hashkafa classes ask the foundational questions — who Hashem is, what He wants, and how a person fits into that plan — with patience rather than slogans.
Underneath it all is a focus on self-improvement. Whether he is unpacking a chapter of the Ramchal or offering a one-line reflection, the aim is the same: to leave the listener a little more honest, a little more trusting, and a little more awake to the choices in front of them. That is why his classes tend to be returned to rather than heard once.
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At a glance
Key takeaways
- Rabbi Farhi teaches the Ramchal's Da'at Tevunot, unpacking its ideas about Hashem's oneness and the ultimate tikkun of creation.
- His Chovot Halevavot shiurim center on Sha'ar HaBitachon, bringing the gate of trust into real-life struggles like loneliness.
- The "Daily Reflection" series offers short, single-idea thoughts meant to reframe one day at a time.
- His focus is tefillah, hashkafa and self-improvement — Torah aimed at how a person actually lives.
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