Today, with over a million users, Shimon and Rubin Kolyakov still don’t take the credit for TorahAnytime— they just followed the path Hashem paved
When Shimon and Rubin Kolyakov first put up their website of Torah shiurim in 2006, they considered 50 hits a success — that meant 50 more people listening to a Torah class. Today, with over a million users, they still don’t take the credit for TorahAnytime — they just followed the path Hashem paved
Shimon Kolyakov is, by his own admission, a man obsessed. And that turns out to be a particularly good thing for Klal Yisrael. Because, as a child of Bukharian immigrants growing up in Queens, New York, once Shimon became drawn to Torah as a teenager, he became obsessed with sharing his newfound wealth. Together with his younger brother Rubin, who followed enthusiastically in his wake, he began videoing and sharing shiurim, taking advantage of the swiftly advancing development of the Internet and following new breakthroughs in photographic technology.
Their efforts ultimately morphed into TorahAnytime.com, the largest library of originally recorded Torah videos in the world.
In fact, the massive global resource we all know started with a mini-DV camera and a driven and inspired teenager.
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