Spirituality of the Torah | Online Jewish Learning | Neshamah Institute

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One of the things I love most about summer is also the thing that used to challenge me a little. Our community scatters. People travel, visit kids and grandkids, head to the mountains or the beach or somewhere with weak Wi-Fi or cell service. For years, summer meant a quiet pause in our community connection.

Not anymore.

Thanks to the gifts of technology, what I sometimes call the lemonade of the COVID era, we can still connect and celebrate from anywhere in the world. Every week this summer, I facilitate a weekly Torah Portion class over Zoom, and it has become one of the most meaningful parts of my own summer.

We’re five weeks into the series now. My favorite moment is watching where people show up from. People log in from wherever they happen to be, and we spend an hour focused on Judaism and how it relates to our lives, no matter what time zone or terminal we’re sitting in.

It is not always easy to pause a vacation or step out of a workday for an hour. I know that firsthand. I have joined this class from airports, from the car during a long drive, from the mountains with spotty service and a scenic view I generally prefer over my screen.

And yet … I have never once regretted showing up. Jewish learning is not meant to live in just one season or one set of circumstances. It is meant to travel with us through all of them, which is exactly what makes this experience, learning together even when we are apart, so meaningful to me.

What Is Spirituality of the Torah?

This class is a weekly online Torah study gathering where we open the Torah together and ask what it has to say to us right now. No membership. No prerequisites. No Hebrew required. Just curiosity and a willingness to wrestle a little with an ancient text.

Each week we take on that week’s Torah portion, the parshah, and dig into it from a few different angles. We bring in classical commentators, modern teachers, and the Mussar tradition’s focus on character and soul work. 

Some weeks the portion is dramatic, full of conflict and consequence. Other weeks it’s quieter, a list of travels or a repeated law, and that’s where real surprises tend to show up. I have learned, after many years of doing this, that there is no such thing as a boring parshah. 

Why This Matters

I think there’s something powerful about choosing to keep learning when nothing is requiring it of you. No one assigns you summer Torah study. You show up because you want to, because something in you is still hungry to learn, still curious about what this three-thousand-year-old text might have to say about the life you’re actually living.

That’s really what this series is about: making our ancient text relevant for our modern lives. Torah was never meant to sit on a shelf. It was meant to be argued with, lived with, carried into the kitchen, the carpool, even on vacations. 

Who This Is For

This class welcomes everyone, whether you grew up steeped in Torah study or this would be your first time opening a parshah with real attention. We move at a pace that respects both the beginner asking a foundational question and the experienced student looking for a new layer of meaning. No one is too new and no one has heard it all before. The Torah keeps giving.

You don’t need to attend every week. You don’t need to prepare. You don’t even need to be in town. All you need is a screen and one hour carved out of your Wednesday.

How to Join

Spirituality of the Torah meets weekly on Zoom and is open to the Neshamah community and beyond. Whether you’re in Boca Raton, Delray Beach, somewhere else in Palm Beach County, or logging in from another time zone entirely, you’re welcome at the table.

I hope you’ll join us. There is something revolutionary about a community that keeps learning together even when everyone has scattered for the summer, and I love that we are that kind of community.

With love and blessings,

Rabbi Amy

REGISTER FOR SPIRITUALITY OF THE TORAH

Weekly on Wednesdays 12:00 – 1:00 pm through August 26, 2026 on Zoom