Aleph Beta is Rabbi David Fohrman's Torah studio: animated videos, podcasts, courses, and printable guides that treat Tanakh as a text you can actually interrogate. I like the close-reading habit they teach — patterns, intertextual links, and the obvious questions familiar stories train us to stop asking — so study feels less like a lecture and more like following a trail through the parsha, holidays, prayer, and mitzvot.^1
Fohrman built the library after work as a senior editor on the ArtScroll Talmud Project and as adjunct faculty at Johns Hopkins. CEO Immanuel Shalev, a Fordham Law graduate and former Maccabeats director, runs the production side with a team of scholars, animators, and editors.^2 The work sits under The Hoffberger Institute for Text Study, a 501(c)(3).^3
The same library lives on the web and in the iOS and Android apps.^4 Membership is subscription-based; they invite people to try the library and say it stays free when money is the barrier.^6
