Books by Jennifer Brooke Lawless
More Books, Decoded
The stories you grew up on, the places you work, the brain you live in. Start with the one that sounds like you.
Every one of these books is complete on its own, so there's no right order and nothing to read first. When you want the whole picture, The Decoder Series is there to take you further.
Stories, Decoded
The fairy tales, fables, and myths you grew up on, and what each one quietly taught you to accept.
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Once Upon a Pattern
85 fairy tales, fables, and myths you grew up with, turned over one at a time to show what each one quietly taught you.
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What the Fairy Tale Doesn't Say
Fifty Stories You Know, and What They Taught You
Fifty stories you know, in a small book made for giving: the tale, the turn, and one line that names what it taught you.
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ADHD, Decoded
The adult ADHD brain, explained from the inside.
Power, Decoded
The pattern you learned to see in one person, at work in the places we give ourselves to.
Romance, Decoded
Love stories where you can spot the pattern before the heroine does.
Kabbalah, Decoded
Books on the mystical heart of Judaism.
Kabbalah means receiving. These books are an open door to it, written for any reader, Jewish or not, with nothing to know before you begin. They teach through the tradition's own stories and show the light in it: its mysticism, its kindness, and its care for the stranger. By Jennifer Brooke Lawless, M.S.
A series of four short books
The Hidden Light
Receive, return, give, ascend. Four short books that can be read alone or in order, each one a step further into the light.
Book One · Receive
The Light of the First Day
A Gentle Introduction to Kabbalah
On the first day there was a light before the sun. The sages say it was hidden away. The mystics say it was never lost. A first book on the Kabbalah: the Infinite, the Tree of Life and its ten qualities, the Presence that dwells among us, and the sparks of holiness in everything.
Manuscript in review · Planned for Hanukkah 2026
Read the openingBook Two · Return
The Door That Never Closes
Kabbalah and the Journey of the Soul
What kind of partnership is there between a person and G-d? Why is a soul sent into the world, and what happens after this life? A book about the soul's journey, and the door of return that the sages say is never locked.
Manuscript in review · Planned for Hanukkah 2026
Read a chapterBook Three · Give
The Open Hand
Jewish Wisdom on Wealth, Honest Work, and Giving
How to hold wealth, never how to chase it. Honest scales, wages paid before sundown, a coin given where no one can see, and the old question of who is truly rich.
Manuscript in review · Planned for Hanukkah 2026
Read a chapterBook Four · Ascend
Every Candle Lit
Kindness, Shabbos, and a Life Full of Light
Kindness as the foundation of the world, the hidden righteous, a hundred blessings a day, Shabbos as a palace in time, and the candle that lights other candles and loses nothing.
Manuscript in review · Planned for Hanukkah 2026
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A standalone book
The Lamp in the Window
On Chanukah the lamp is placed in the window, facing the street. In a time of danger, the Talmud teaches, it is placed on the table inside. It was moved, and never put out.
Why the Jews Have Been Hated, and Why the Light Never Went Out
From Pharaoh to the present, age by age: the tradition's own reading, what history records, the light carried inside through every danger, and the righteous of other peoples who stood beside.
Manuscript in review · Planned for Hanukkah 2026
Where to start
New to The Decoder Series? SEE, Volume One, is where it begins.