Learning the parsha with its first commentator
Chumash Rashi by Rabbi Shaul Aryeh Rosenberg is a shiur series with a clear method: learn the Chumash the way Klal Yisrael has for nearly a thousand years — together with Rashi. Rashi is the first commentary a Jewish child meets and the one adults never outgrow, the voice that decides which word needs explaining and which question the verse is really asking. The series, running to some thirty shiurim, follows the text and Rashi in tandem, verse by verse.
Reading Chumash through Rashi is a discipline, not a shortcut. Rashi chooses his moments; where he is silent, the pshat is meant to be plain, and where he speaks, there is a difficulty worth stopping for. A shiur built around Rashi teaches a learner to notice those seams in the text — to feel the question before hearing the answer. That is a skill that outlasts any single parsha, and it is what a series like this quietly trains.
A series that follows the weekly cycle
Because the material is the Chumash, a series like this maps naturally onto the year. The parsha comes around every week whether or not a person is ready for it, and a recorded Chumash-Rashi shiur meets that rhythm — a place to prepare for Shabbos, to catch a Rashi that was always puzzling, or to give a Shabbos-table dvar Torah a real source instead of a vague memory. The weekly frame turns scattered learning into a steady habit.
The recorded format fits the way Rashi is best learned. A sharp Rashi often needs a second pass — read the pasuk, read the comment, then go back and see what pushed Rashi to say it. Being able to pause and replay lets a learner do exactly that, at the pace the text demands. For families and individuals building a foundation in Chumash, that patient, repeatable approach is the heart of the appeal.
Finding kosher Torah video for your family
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If your family enjoys learning Chumash with Rashi, as in this series with Rabbi Shaul Aryeh Rosenberg, search FilteredTube for the speakers and topics that matter most to you. With a daf yomi shelf, a weekly parsha shelf, topic shelves, audio-only listening for the car, and a kids mode with a PIN, kosher Jewish video is easy to reach — and the approved catalog keeps growing every day.
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Key takeaways
- This is a shiur series learning the weekly parsha together with Rashi, verse by verse, taught by Rabbi Shaul Aryeh Rosenberg.
- Rashi is the first commentary a child meets and the one adults never outgrow — the series follows text and Rashi in tandem.
- Learning through Rashi trains a learner to notice the difficulty before hearing the answer, a skill that outlasts any parsha.
- The series maps onto the weekly cycle, and the recorded format lets a sharp Rashi be replayed until it settles.
- Search FilteredTube for kosher, approved Torah video — the catalog grows every day.