Kindness. Ethics. Mindfulness. Jewish Values For Everyday Life
The Jewish Values Institute shares Jewish wisdom for kind, ethical, and mindful living.
JVI currently offers classes, lectures, and custom special edition courses for your home, office, or organization.
To arrange any learning sessions, or for more information, email: JewishValuesInstitute@gmail.com
Classes
Series of classes covering the gamut of Jewish interpersonal values. Offered at introductory, comprehensive, and advanced levels.
Lectures
Single classes or lectures on topics ranging from Jewish holidays to Jewish humor as seen through the lens of Jewish
Values.
Special Edition
Courses tailored to focus on issues related to specific audiences' goals and purposes such as couples, parents, educators or leaders.
Classes
The complete Ten"KINDmandments" Curriculum comprises ten courses, a course for each "KINDmandment."
The courses are offered on three tracks, reflecting different learning level interests - Introductory, Comprehensive, and Advanced.
The Introductory track includes 1-3 classes per course (10-30 classes in complete curriculum).
The Comprehensive track includes 6-10 classes per course (60-100 classes in complete curriculum).
The Advanced track includes 25 classes per course (250 classes in complete curriculum).
Topics covered in the curriculum include:
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Giving the Benefit of the Doubt
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Compassion and Empathy
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Truth and Honesty
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Respecting Other’s Feelings
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Promoting Peace and Harmony
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Alignment of One’s Character Traits
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Speaking Ill of Others
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Taking Undeserved Credit
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Un-random Acts of Kindness
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Protecting People from Humiliation
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Respecting and Valuing All People
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Knowing One’s Own Value and Qualities
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Giving Advice and Feedback
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Balancing Self Care vs Care for Others
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Developing Inner Peace
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Awareness of One’s Core Values
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Smiling and Bringing Joy to Others
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Comforting Those In Emotional Pain
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Charity and Providing Aid
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Honoring People and Worthy Ideas
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Inadvertently Paining Others
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Defending Human Dignity
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Reversing the Cycle of Hurt
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Bearing a Grudge and Revenge
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White Lies and Being Polite
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Prompting Moral Failure in Others
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Apologizing and Seeking Forgiveness
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Causing Strife
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Becoming a Kinder Person
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Visiting the Sick
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Humility and Arrogance
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Kindness to Animals
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Forgiving and Forgetting
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Stealing Hearts and Minds
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Privacy and Confidentiality
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Seeing the Good in Others
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Priorities in Kindness
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Happiness and Contentment
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Listening and Understanding
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Love Your Fellow as Yourself
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Greetings and Wishing Well
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Constructive Criticism
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Lying for the Sake of Peace
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Honoring Commitments
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Giving Credit Where it is Due
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Pressuring People to Do a Favor
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Parenting and Education
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Evoking Unwarranted Sympathy
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Inappropriate Flattery
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Bringing Joy to Bride and Groom
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Generosity
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Anger and Resentment
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Imparting Wisdom and Values
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The “How” of Kindness
Lectures
Lectures are offered on any of the above listed topics.
Here is a sample of lecture titles:
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You Think, Therefore I Am: Why Give the Benefit of the Doubt?
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Change for a Dollar: Personal Growth Through Giving
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One of a Kind: Unique, Transformational Acts of Kindness
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Love Is in the Ear: Speaking Considerately of Others
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Am I My Botherer’s Keeper? A Path to Healing When Others Hurt Us
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Judaism in a Nutshell: The Inside-Out and Outside-In of Being a Good Person
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The Truth About Lying: Honesty in Adverse Situations
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With All Due Respect: Maintaining the Dignity of All
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Blind Is Love: Seeing the Good in Each Other
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The Butter Knife: False Flattery’s Fatality to the Conscience
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A Peace of Cake: Restoring Harmony to Relationships
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All the Difference in the World: Celebrating Similarities and Differences
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These topics, viewed through the lens of Jewish Values, are also offered as part of our lecture options:
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Jewish Humor
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Current Events
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Jewish Customs
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Weekly Parshah
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Jewish Foods
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Ethical Dilemmas
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Jewish Holidays
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Yiddish Idioms
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Jewish Folk Tales
Special Edition
Courses on above topics tailored to focus on issues related to specific audiences' goals and purposes such as:
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Couples (Better People, Better Partners)
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Parents (Better Parents, Better Children)
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Retirees (Ethical Will / Legacy Letter)
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Educators (Better Teachers, Better Students)
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Leadership (Purpose, Influence and Decisions)
About JVI
Jewish teachings offer a wealth of insight, inspiration and practical guidance to live with love, respect and consideration for other people (and oneself). In 2001 Rabbi Tzvi Muller pioneered and led a team of scholars researching these teachings within Judaism’s classical texts. This effort produced an authoritative and encyclopedic seven volume set of books, The Torah's Guidelines for Interpersonal Relationships intended for, and embraced by, thousands of scholars across the world. As a sought after lecturer, Rabbi Muller has since brought these teachings to thousands of his students, from all walks of life.
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JVI was founded in 2015 under Rabbi Muller’s leadership. Its purpose is to better people’s lives by making these teachings accessible & personally relevant to all, regardless of background or affiliation.
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Through classes, consultations and various educational products the Jewish Values Institute has introduced tens of thousands of people to these teachings. The Jewish Values Institute serves individuals, families, groups, synagogues, schools and community organizations across the world seeking to learn Judaism’s wisdom for kind, ethical and mindful living.
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JVI designed and offers many unique learning materials, including its comprehensive Ten "KINDmandments' Curriculum, covering the entire array of interpersonal topics in Jewish teachings.
If you wish to become a better person, enhance your relationships, and make the world a better place, the Ten “KINDmandments" are for you!.
Rabbi Muller's Ten KINDmandments have been covered in the below publications. Please click to learn more.
"The Essence of Kindness"
"Rabbi Shares Ideas on How To Be Kinder"
"What I discovered was a historic opoprtunity to compile and convey the Jewish concept of kindness that hadn't presented itself for many hundreds of years"
- Rabbi Tzvi Muller
We value:
Goodness
Bettering the world.
Therefore, JVI presents Judaism's teachings of how to practice goodness, kindness and ethics with others in our lives.
Relevance
Lessons that are highly relevant and meaningful. Therefore, JVI focuses on the important and everyday interpersonal areas of life.
Universality
JVI is non-denominational. Therefore, JVI's presentations are designed to appeal to participants across the Jewish affiliation spectrum and beyond.
"Rabbi Muller is a superb teacher of kindness, not just because of his amazing oratory skills or abilities to use creative approaches to experiencing kindness, but because he truly loves the kindness he teaches!"
Leiby Burnham
Educator at Partners Detroit
"Rabbi Tzvi Muller has changed the lives of many people through his profound message. As director of the Kindness Project he has initiated a program that teaches people, in a non-threatening, and non-judgmental way, how to be aware of the impact that their own words and actions can have on others."
Michael Cohen
Rabbi/Teacher
"Rav Tzvi Muller is in my view one of the finest Rabbis in the country. He is at once a tremendous scholar with a breadth and depth in Torah and a leader of surpassing commitment to help the Jewish people."
Rabbi Yaacov Deyo
COO at Torah Live
