An educator's educator
Rabbi Jonathan Rietti is a British-born Jewish educator and popular lecturer, widely known for talks that make the foundations of Judaism vivid to newcomers and lifelong learners alike. His background in education runs through everything he teaches; he is as interested in how a person learns as in what they learn.
That instinct shapes his chinuch work. In "How to Teach Gemara to Our Children," he treats Jewish education as a craft with real methods, not just content — how to open a child's mind to Torah so that the learning takes hold and lasts. Parents drawn to his shiurim tend to be looking for exactly that practical wisdom.
The Hebrew language and the design of creation
A signature theme is the Hebrew language. In "The Keyboard of Creation and the Mother Tongue of All Languages," Rabbi Rietti presents Hebrew not as one language among many but as the very medium of creation — the letters and words through which, in the Torah's account, the world was spoken into being.
This connects to his broader interest in the order beneath reality. He is known for drawing on science and structure to argue for design and meaning, appealing to listeners who want their emunah to satisfy the mind as much as the heart. His "Science of Anger" applies that same analytic bent to human nature.
Jewish history and building a life
Rabbi Rietti also teaches Jewish history and personal growth. His "Jewish Timeline" series lays out the sweep of the Jewish story as a coherent whole, helping a listener see where they stand in a chain that stretches back thousands of years. It is history taught to build identity, not just to recall dates.
Alongside it, he addresses dating and marriage directly, bringing the same clear, systematic approach to the work of building a home. Across topics — philosophy, chinuch, language, history, relationships — his throughline is coherence: Torah as an integrated, reasoned way of understanding the world.
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Key takeaways
- Rabbi Jonathan Rietti is a British-born Jewish educator and popular lecturer.
- He teaches chinuch as a craft, including how to teach Gemara to children.
- A signature theme presents Hebrew as the very language of creation.
- His "Jewish Timeline" series lays out Jewish history as one coherent story.
- Search FilteredTube for kosher, approved Torah video — the catalog grows every day.