“Once, in his first years as Rebbe, the Alter Rebbe, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the founder of the Chabad Movement, declared in public: ‘We must live with the times.’
“Through his brother, Rabbi Yehudah Leib, the elders of the Chassidic community discovered the Rebbe’s intent: ‘We must live with the Torah portion of the week and, more specifically, of the current day. It is not enough to study [a segment of] the weekly Torah portion every day; we must live with it.’
“Bereishis is a happy parshah, even though its conclusion is not so pleasant. Noach is [the parshah of] the Flood, but the end of the week is cheerful: our Patriarch Avraham is born.
“The really joyful week is Lech Lecha for throughout that entire week we live with Avraham, who was the first to utterly devote his life to proclaiming G‑d’s existence in the world. And this ‘mesirus nefesh,’ self-sacrifice, he bequeathed as an inheritance to all Jews.”
— Hayom Yom, Cheshvan 2 & 3
Are you ready to live with Abraham every week? With the start of the new cycle of reading the Torah, now is an excellent time to up-your Torah study game.
Our Daily Study app, available on Apple and Android, is here to help.
One of the most popular Jewish apps, Chabad.org’s Daily Study, this app first released in 2014, has recently been rebuilt from the ground up to add a new dimension of daily Torah study to your life.
Explore timeless classics in Hebrew and English, including Judaica Press’s lucid translation of Chumash with Rashi, Psalms, Tanya (in anewly remastered format), Hayom Yom in original English renditions from Kehot Publication Society, the works of Maimonides as divided for the one-chapter and three-chapter cycles of study with Moznaim’s groundbreaking translation of Maimonides’ magnum opus and Sichos in English’s rendition of the daily mitzvah.
Each day, each daily study track is refreshed on the app, allowing the user to select from relevant text for daily study. The app plays to the diverse study needs of the public. Users can choose from audio lectures of multiple acclaimed Chabad.org teachers, including Rabbi Yehoshua B. Gordon and Rabbi Manis Friedman, and adjust the playback speed to ease study, as well as make it more accessible to the blind.
So what are you waiting for? Download the app and get studying!
