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52 Portions of Torah and Food

Melissa Amster • The Jewish Food Experience

What kind of connection does food have to the Torah, aside from the laws of kashrut? Diana Lipton explored this concept in the book From Forbidden Fruit to Milk and Honey: A Commentary on Food in the Torah, where she worked with a team of 52 internationally acclaimed scholars to write essays on each parasha (Torah portion) and how food

God’s Command: Exercise

Dr. Israel Drazin • The Blogs: The Times of Israel

Michael Kaufman’s “Am I My Body’s Keeper?” is an important lifesaving book. He states that the Bible tells people to exercise and do other acts to assure their health. God did not create humans to sit and deteriorate.

The book is easy to read. It focuses on the Jewish view toward taking care of our bodies, but the information and ideas in the book are valuable for people of all religions. Kaufman quotes the sage Chafetz Chaim (1839-1933) who wrote “The entire Torah is dependent upon

An Evening Dedicated to Rav She’ar-Yashuv Cohen ZT’L and Rav Kook ZT’L

Rabbi Shear Yashuv Cohen: Between War and Peace

By Yechiel Frish and Yedidya HaCohen

Hardcover, 334 pages

Urim Publications, 2017

ISBN: 978-965-524-253-9

Am I My Body’s Keeper?

Rabbi Ari Enkin • Torah Book Reviews 

There is nothing worse for our bodies than…food. Yes, between the additives and preservatives, combined with the inexcusably large portions which we eat –that our bodies do not need or want– we are literally destroying our health one meal at a time.

Add to this equation the fact that we are Orthodox Jews, making the situation even more alarming. We can’t get away from food. Whether it’s pat shacharit, three meals on Shabbos, Melaveh Malka, a vort, a bris, a wedding, a l’chaim, a Kiddush, a Friday “to’amei’ah” session, or a yartzeit tikkun, we are seemingly trapped into eating. And here’s my favorite: “I’m not sure if I had a kezayis, so please pass me some more [fill in a carbohydrate and fat saturated food] so that I can be sure I can say a bracha achronal…” And I didn’t even comment on the near total disinterest and disregard for exercise in the Orthodox community. (“…because it’s bittul Torah”)

As one who has lost about 50 pounds over the last number of years, I was extremely excited to get my hands on “Am I My Body’s Keeper?”