David Raitan

David Raitan grew up on the teachings of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Rabbi Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel and Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch, and on the sages of the Golden Age of Sephardic Jewry: a Judaism faithful to halacha that stands in the world with confidence and pride, where wisdom, science and leadership are part of the Torah itself. Over the years he saw a gap between that world and what we meet today in Israel, in the yeshivas and in religious communities. Torah Meirah was born from that gap.

He writes on the parasha with the tools at our disposal, reading closely and critically: learning from our sages and the commentators, and from the scholars and experts of our time, to uncover the light hidden in the many layers of the Torah. The Torah is from Heaven, and so it stands above time; the more the world advances, the more we discover in it.

Rabbi Sacks called his teachings on the parasha Covenant & Conversation. The covenant is eternal. The conversation belongs to every generation, and we are bound to it.