Nearly 35 years ago, my grandfather Dr. Bernard Kaplan, of blessed memory, started a weekly Torah newsletter - a “unique journal of original and plagiarized Jewish thought,” is what he called it.
When I started my weekly Torah email in October 2019, I had no idea about this.
A few months into writing my own weekly Torah emails, some family members mentioned his newsletters, called Ha'Iggeret, or the Message. It struck me as incredibly Divine that the grandfather I never got to meet, one who had been turned into somewhat of a mythical hero-tzadik by family legend, suddenly felt so near to me.
I decided that if I could complete my year-long round of my original email Emunah until the Sunset, then I would re-name my email HaIggeret in his memory, moving forward
Thank G-d both sets of my grandparents passed down intense love of Judaism to their children, including my mother and father. I am very grateful that my parents, Meyer and Shelley Kaplan instilled that same love and pride and sense of responsibility for the Jewish people in my siblings and me.
In this podcast I will share Torah ideas on the weekly parsha (portion) as well as the chagim (holidays), and other Jewish concepts. I hope to relate the timelessness of Torah with real life as well as our current world moment. This podcast will be in my grandfather’s merit ~ Benyamin Aryeh ben Meir.
Thank you so much for listening!
I hope you will join me on my continued Jewish journey!
Music: reCreation by airtone (c) copyright 2019 Licensed
