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Start the new cycle with the complete Parsha Companion set.
Discover new ideas on familiar stories in the weekly Torah reading
What's inside the Parsha Books?
Thought-provoking essays on each parsha
Each book has one essay for each weekly Torah portion, designed to be read and savoured alongside your weekly parsha learning.
Hidden patterns in the Hebrew text
Rabbi Fohrman reveals linguistic connections and textual patterns that leap off the page once you see them, showing how the Torah itself serves as its own most authoritative commentary, enriched by insights from ancient sages of the Talmud and Midrash.
Fresh perspectives on familiar stories
Discover new layers of meaning in the narratives you've learned many times before. See the Torah’s pivotal moments through a completely new lens.
Let us introduce ourselves
Not just a library to watch —
a different relationship with the text
Rabbi Fohrman
Our lead scholar
Rabbi David Fohrman is the founder and lead scholar at Aleph Beta. Over the last two decades, he’s pioneered a way of reading Biblical text that feels both rigorous and revelatory. Through Aleph Beta, he’s given expression to that, developing what is now a vast library of content, spanning all types of media: animated videos, podcasts and books. He’s also embarked on an effort to train a team of Torah scholars adept at the close-reading methodology he’s pioneered – and their work can be found at Aleph Beta, too.
Prior to his founding of Aleph Beta, Rabbi Fohrman served as a senior editor and writer for the ArtScroll Talmud Project. He also taught Biblical themes as adjunct faculty at Johns Hopkins University, where he had earlier received a Master’s degree in Western intellectual history. Rabbi Fohrman received his rabbinical and Talmudic training at the Ner Israel Rabbinical College, but some of his earliest and most profound exposure to Biblical text analysis came from his encounters with Rabbi Yosef Leibowitz, in his childhood years in Northern California.
