Your weekly “Torah In Ten” videocast -  Parshas Va’etchanan

Brooklyn, NY – Kol Menachem, the organization behind the critically acclaimed series of  English Judaica, is announcing a new venture – Torah in Ten.

In this go, go, go world we live in, it can be difficult to sit down and find time to study the weekly parsha. And when shabbos rolls around, we all wish we had studied more and could contribute to the conversation at the shabbos table. Not to mention our children, don’t we all wish we could provide them beautiful insights into the weekly parsha?

Kol Menachem is launching an online classroom for Jews on the go. Torah in Ten will provide weekly insightful conversations on the current Torah portion. The class will include interesting commentaries from renowned historical figures as well as modern views in addition to thought provoking and inspiring questions. Torah in Ten will take place every week, for ten minutes.  It is as simple as logging on to your computer.

This incredible opportunity will be facilitated by the prominent Editor in Chief of  Kol Menachem, Rabbi Chaim Miller.

Rabbi Chaim Miller is a leading international authority for interpretation of Jewish Bible and mysticism, specifically the Torah-related works of the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Schneerson (1902-1994). His scholarly achievement, at the tender age of 37, is substantiated by the vast dissemination of his works, as well as the acclaim they have won him among his colleagues and in the educational and religious communities in which the works circulate.

Born and raised in London, England, Miller studied at the prestigious Haberdashers’ Aske’s School for Boys. He began to explore the depth of his religion while at England’s Leeds University through extensive reading and personal introspection.

Fascinated by Jewish mystical teachings in particular, he took a year off to learn at a Lubavitcher yeshiva.

Five years later he was an ordained rabbi practicing in Leeds, running both a synagogue and a yeshiva, and writing in his spare time what would soon become the Gutnick Chumash.

In 2004 Rabbi Miller relocated to the United States with the intention of devoting himself almost entirely to the writing and editing of great Jewish liturgy for Kol Menachem.  Since this time he has completed the groundbreaking Kol Menachem Chumash (Gutnick Edition), the Slager Edition Haggadah — the bestselling work in its genre — and two volumes of a landmark series exploring Rambam’s Thirteen Principles of Faith.

Rabbi Miller’s texts are currently used at some of the nation’s top institutions,  including New York University and Yeshiva University. In addition, over 1,000 rabbis in the United States use Rabbi Miller’s texts to teach their students and prepare their sermons.

Rabbi Miller’s publications have received the attention of community leaders and various persons of note. In 2008, President George W. Bush sent the Slager Edition Haggadah to the troops in Iraq as a representation of the Jewish faith for the United States military. TheHaggadah was a recent recipient of the prestigious Benjamin Franklin Award just this past year, and Miller’s Gutnick Chumash is on display at the Jewish Children’s Museum in Brooklyn, New York. The popular “Dummies” series published The Torah for Dummies in 2008, with author Arthur Kurzweil singling out Rabbi Miller’s Gutnick Chumash and proclaiming, “If I could have only one translation on a desert island, it would be this one.” (source: Torah In Ten website)

Torah in Ten is brought to you by Kol Menachem.