A bilingual parsha project
This series is the work of Ari Lipinski, an Israel-based teacher who presents commentary on the weekly Torah portion in two languages — English and German. The full title carries both, "Torah Parasha commentaries" alongside "Torah Parascha Kommentare erklaert von Ari Lipinski," which is itself the point: the project is built to reach learners in each language with the same weekly material.
That bilingual mission is unusual and worth noting. Quality Torah content in German is comparatively scarce, and a series that deliberately serves German-speaking audiences fills a real gap — for communities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and for German speakers anywhere who want to follow the parsha in their own language. It reflects a purpose beyond any single class: making the weekly sedra accessible across a language divide.
Following the sedra week by week
The series is organized around the parashat hashavua, the portion read in shul each Shabbos. This is the most natural rhythm in Jewish learning: a fixed weekly text that the entire Jewish world moves through together, so that whatever the week's parsha is, a listener can turn to a commentary on exactly what is being read. That built-in schedule is much of what keeps parsha learning consistent.
Presenting from Israel adds its own texture. Teaching the weekly portion from the land where so much of the Torah's narrative unfolds gives the material a certain immediacy, and it connects a dispersed, multilingual audience back to a shared center. Each week the same sedra is opened, in whichever of the two languages a listener needs.
Torah across a language barrier
Learning Torah in one's own language is not a small thing. Ideas that feel distant in translation land differently when they arrive in the language a person actually thinks in. By offering the parsha in German as well as English, this series lets German-speaking families engage with the weekly portion directly, rather than always through a second or third language.
For a household, a weekly parsha commentary is one of the easiest ways to build a rhythm of learning. It ties naturally to Shabbos, gives parents and children a shared topic, and returns every seven days without fail. A bilingual version simply extends that opportunity to more families — meeting the same timeless text to whoever is ready to learn it, in the language they know best.
Finding kosher Torah video for your family
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If your family enjoys bilingual parsha teaching like Ari Lipinski's, 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.
At a glance
Key takeaways
- This is a bilingual weekly-parsha series by Ari Lipinski, presented in both English and German.
- Its deliberate mission is to serve German-speaking audiences, where quality Torah content is comparatively scarce.
- It follows the parashat hashavua, the fixed weekly portion the whole Jewish world reads together.
- Learning in one's own language lets ideas land that can feel distant in translation.
- Search FilteredTube for kosher, approved Torah video — the catalog grows every day.