This coming Shabbat's Torah portion, read on Saturday, July 25th, is Vaetchanan. In this week’s Torah reading, Va’etchanan, Moses continues his attempt to impress upon the Israelites the importance of following G‑d’s commandments, the rewards which will result from obeying G‑d’s words, and the punishments they will incur if they neglect to do so. Moses recounts the story of the giving of Torah at Mount Sinai, and repeats the Ten Commandments. Moses designates cities of refuge. This portion also contains the Shema.

This Sunday, The LIST 2022 virtual launch with Avi Abelow! Check it below.

This week's thoughts by our popular teacher Dr. Benny Benjamin talks about Recite, Bind, and Inscribe: Multimodal Messaging Internalizes Your Product. Read it below.

Last week, our popular Root Source teacher Rabbi Gedalia Meyer talked about "Devarim". Watch it below.

We are delighted to share our lesson Joshua’s Altar 2: Disbelief with our teacher Aaron Lipkin. Learn it here.

Check below to hear what Jason Caplan and Gidon Ariel have to say. Watch it below.

We sign off with a nice comment and a beautiful photo of  Ashdod Beach, HaTayelet, Ashdod, Israel.

Shalom, 
Gidon Ariel and Bob O’Dell 
Root Source Founders

The LIST 2022 Virtual Launch

with Avi Abelow

Following the publication of The LIST 2021 which was launched last January with a presentation by Rabbi Ken Spiro, and The LIST 2020 and the historic volume The LIST: Persecution of Jews by Christians Throughout History, Root Source is honored to launch
"The LIST 2022: Antisemitic Incidents Worldwide."

Like the books that preceeded it, The LIST 2022 reviews over one thousand incidents reported in online newspapers and on social media, in an easy to use format.

Coinciding with the Ninth of Av, the saddest day on the Jewish calendar which commemorates the destruction of both the First and the Second Temples in Jerusalem, Root Source will launch The LIST 2022 on Sunday, July 30. 

Register here to learn more!

Recite, Bind, and Inscribe: Multimodal Messaging Internalizes Your Product

Devarim: 
Rabbi Gedalia Meyer's Weekly Torah Study

Justice! Just what is it? Is it attainable? What do righteousness and judgment have to do with justice? We are commanded to pursue justice, but justice itself can only be attained with the help of G-d.

Joshua’s Altar 2: Disbelief

Watch here as Aaron Lipkin talks about our lesson - Joshua’s Altar 2: Disbelief. 

Conversations:
Gidon Ariel and Jason Caplan

Here are some of the topics that Gidon and Dr. Richard talked about:

• A concert by Dave Liebman, a huge jazz musician and teacher
• Universal Language Room – that is the language of music for all
• more than just a drum circle
• The Bridge Institute
• The abulafia meditation system, written in the late 1200s
• The first public kaballah teacher
• In the 1600s, great kabbalists started mentioning Aboulafia
• Only in the 20th century did this stuff start becoming popular
• Jerry Bergonzi, author of Melodic Structures

Watch the video to learn more.

We get so many comments!
Here is one from Dennis McCutcheon on blog post
Lesson 1: Driven 1.

"Amen! Will try to follow, thank you. Mark Twain has been a favorite in my 70 years. His description of the Holy Lands before restoration on its peoples is depressing. What Israel has done with marsh and desert is a miracle."

Enjoy this photo in Ashdod Beach, HaTayelet, Ashdod, Israel by Alon Elay Latucha