Rabbi Tovia Singer has over 100,000 subscribers who want hear how he helps Jews get out of the church and return to their Jewish faith. Rav Gav Friedman, who gives shiurim that get recorded and uploaded by others, says that “you don’t know where they’ll end up, but Hashem’s in charge.” Rabbi Uri Lati’s shiurim in Arabic reach sheikhs and imams in mosques across the Middle East. In Israel, where it’s become cool to be traditional, Sivan Rahav Meir’s channel is the first stop in Jewish identity.
In a world desperate for spiritual content, Torah teachers are bringing those messages to the masses with a camera and a click
Rav Gav Friedman
“I look at it like ‘Shelach lachmecha al pnei hamayim — Cast your bread upon the waters’”
Rabbi Gavriel Friedman, a.k.a. Rav Gav, grew up in New York and has spent the last two decades studying and teaching in various yeshivos throughout Jerusalem. He’s currently teaching at Aish HaTorah Jerusalem, and never fails to entertain, even as he lectures on Judaism, relationships, and growing through life in the best way.
When it all began
I didn’t actually ever start posting, because I don’t actually post anything besides my Daf Yomi shiur, which I teach and send out. Otherwise, I give shiurim that get recorded and uploaded by other people, via TorahAnytime, the Rosh Chodesh Project, and others. I don’t use social media, other than WhatsApp for my shiurim, and actually, I’m pretty against using it. But yes, a lot of my classes are out there in the big wide world, online.
How often I’m on
Daf Yomi is daily, but I don’t really know how often the rest gets posted.
My niche
Daf Yomi, hashkafah, daily mussar, and my classes in Aish HaTorah. Most of these are classes of about 45 minutes to an hour, but there are also the Daily Dose type of clips, which are just five minutes long.
