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GENERAL OVERVIEW

The fundamental challenge of life is recognizing and developing human potential.  Our success at this mission not only constitutes a personal victory.  Nearly all the crises we see around us – personal and global – can be ameliorated or resolved if we just had more heroic individuals of noble spirit and refined character.  Each of us possesses this nobility and refinement in potential, and each of us can draw forth this human greatness and transform ourselves through the study of Torah and the observance of mitzvos.  This is the miracle of change.

MIRACLE OF PARENTING

The Torah provides a comprehensive system for bringing forth every child’s unique potential. This system, passed parent-to-child and teacher-to-student for over 3,000 years, provides a simple set of (sometimes counter-intuitive) algorithms enabling any parent to successfully face any parenting challenge. Let your child become all he or she can be. Experience the Miracle of Parenting.

MIRACLE OF PERSONAL GROWTH

The Torah provides an ancient, comprehensive system for bringing forth your unique potential. It requires hard work and the mastery of certain life principles and exercises, but it is accessible and effective. When you are ready to become all that you could be, experience the Miracle of Personal Growth.

His online courses on parenting, teaching, and self-development are viewed around the world as well, and his audio recordings on topics ranging from self-development to leadership and relationships have been heard by thousands. Rabbi Kelemen’s lectures each year at universities, synagogues, and communal organizations throughout North and South America, Europe, Africa, Australia, and elsewhere.

He is the author of many books, among them: Permission to Believe: Four Rational Approaches to God’s Existence; Permission to Receive: Four Rational Approaches to the Torah’s Divine Origin; and To Kindle a Soul: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Parents and Teachers. He is also the translator (from the original Hebrew) of the classic text on Jewish pedagogy: Planting and Building: Raising A Jewish Child, by Rabbi Shlomo Wolbe, and the author of dozens of journal articles. Since 2006, Rabbi Kelemen has served as director of the International Organization of Mussar Vaadim, a large network of character-development programs spread across the United States and Canada.

Lawrence Kelemen studied at UCLA, Harvard, Yeshiva University of Los Angeles, the David Shapell College of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, and Kollel Meshech Chochmo in Jerusalem. He was ordained in 1993 by the Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem and the Chief Rabbi of Israel, before taking a position as a Senior Lecturer at the Neve Yerushalayim College of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, where he also served as Professor of Education for the University of North Texas Israel-based program.