A Jewish farmer stands in the Beit HaMikdash holding a basket of fruit. But the story he tells doesn't begin with his field. It doesn't begin with the harvest. It doesn't even begin with him. It begins thousands of years earlier.

In this Torah study we ask, why does a Jewish farmer, standing in the Beit HaMikdash with the first fruits of his own hard work, tell a story that began thousands of years before he was born? What does it tell us about Jewish faith? What is the Torah wisdom?

Bikkurim appears to be a simple mitzvah of gratitude. But hidden within its few passukim is an extraordinary idea about Jewish history, Jewish values, Jewish philosophy, Judaism, human achievement and the way we understand our own lives.

This week’s parsha contains one of the Torah’s most remarkable ideas about gratitude, success and the story we tell ourselves about how we got here.

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Torah Wisdom: Why does the Torah sometimes tell us to remember, sometimes warn us not to forget, and occasionally command both?

The answer opens a fascinating window into the psychology of memory and profound Jewish teachings and Torah insight.

Some things must be remembered. Some things must never be forgotten. And they are not the same thing.

This Torah study shows that hidden inside the Torah’s language in this parsha, is a remarkable understanding of Judaism, jewish philosophy, how memory works, how identity is formed, and what can happen when the most important truths in our lives quietly disappear from consciousness.

What does the Torah fear we might forget?

And what happens to us if we do?

The answer may change the way we understand Jewish values, some of Judaism’s most familiar ideas, and perhaps the way we understand ourselves.

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For a Jewish person Elul can feel overwhelming. We look back at the year, see the same weaknesses, the same struggles and the same failures and wonder: what does HaShem actually expect from us?

Every Elul we start again. Through Torah wisdom we think about what needs to change, what we should be doing better, our Jewish values, our Judaism, and the person we ought to become.

In this Torah study, one passuk in Parsha Shoftim suggests that HaShem may be asking us for something rather different. And the clue lies in one Hebrew word thats meaning is very easily misunderstood.

As we approach the Yamim Noraim, perhaps we have been asking ourselves the wrong question. What if one of the biggest mistakes we make during Elul is trying too hard to become better?

Parshat Shoftim contains a deceptively simple instruction that takes us from Avraham Avinu to Ya’akov, from astrology to Har Sinai, and ultimately to a very different understanding of what HaShem actually wants from us.

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In Parsha Re’eh, Moshe places blessing and curse before the Jewish people.

But an extraordinary thread running through the parsha suggests that the consequences of our choices reach far beyond reward and punishment.

Some choices change what happens next. Others change the person making them.

We imagine that the defining moments of our lives will be obvious. Jewish philosophy says that perhaps they aren't.

Judaism is telling us that perhaps the moments that shape us most are the ordinary ones, the decisions nobody notices, the battles nobody sees, and the things that gradually stop feeling like decisions at all.

Parsha Re’eh begins with the starkest choice imaginable; blessing or curse.

But behind that choice lies something subtler, and perhaps, much more important. A real dose of Torah wisdom.

Perhaps Re’eh is not merely about Jewish Values and asking us what we will choose. Perhaps it is asking us to see what our choices are doing to us.

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What does being Jewish mean? Where does Judaism really happen?

What if the holiest moment of your day isn't in Shul or the Beit Midrash?

What if Jewish Philosophy tells us that holiness can be encountered over breakfast, in the office, at the supermarket, when paying an invoice, or making dinner for your family?

From Adam's first mistake to Yaakov's life mission, we'll discover why Jewish values see the ordinary moments of life as the very place where holiness is created.

A Torah study providing Torah wisdom that will change the way you think about work, money, food, business, Eretz Yisrael, and what it really means to live a life of kedushah.

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If someone asked you, "What makes Judaism unique?", what would you answer?

Judaism is often grouped together with Christianity and Islam as one of the world's great monotheistic religions. But what if that's completely wrong?

Judaism is unlike any other faith.

From the Shema to Har Sinai to the Land of Israel, in parsha Va'etchanan Moshe reveals the foundational principle on which Jewish philosophy, jewish values and Judaism is built, and why no other religion makes the same claim.

This explains why Torah wisdom & Judaism is fundamentally different from every other faith and civilisation; because Judaism begins where every other religion ends.

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The generation in the desert cried for one night. Consequently, the Jewish people have cried for generations. Why? How could one generation's mistake lead to thousands of years of Jewish suffering? Was the sin of the spies really so great?

The story of the spies is not ancient history. It is the story of Judaism, Jewish history, and perhaps our own.

As Tisha B'Av approaches, we'll explore the true nature of the Meraglim's failure and why it continues to shape Jewish history, modern Judaism and Jewish values. We will ask whether we are still making the very same mistake today. Through this Torah study we will reveal what it teaches us about Jewish destiny and Torah wisdom; and why its message has never been more relevant than today.

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The journey from Egypt to Eretz Yisrael should have taken just a few days. Instead, it took forty years, forty-two journeys, and an entire generation.

The Torah could simply have said that Bnei Yisrael wandered in the wilderness for forty years. Instead, it records every one of their forty-two journeys.

Why does the Torah end Sefer Bamidbar with what appears to be nothing more than a travel itinerary? Why are these forty-two journeys linked by our Sages to the Forty-Two Letter Name of HaShem and even to Creation itself?

This shiur reveals a powerful insight into Judaism, Jewish philosophy, Jewish values and Jewish life. It changes the way we understand growth, struggle, setbacks and success. This Torah wisdom means that you may never think about your own life's journey in quite the same way again.

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