"Timeless Torah Wisdom: Making it Relevant for an Ever-Changing World" was published by Mosaica Press in 2025. Bolotin provided me with a hardcover copy of the book for review.

When reviewing a book, I usually read it from cover to cover. I do not recommend that approach for this book. It is organized as a collection of short chapters for each weekly parshah, beginning with Bereishis and continuing through V'zos Haberachah.

Bolotin selects one topic from each parshah and develops it for contemporary readers, seeking to make it "relevant." As she writes in the chapter on Re'eh, "The Torah connects and enriches people worldwide. Its timeless lessons are always relevant."

She reinforces that idea by quoting the Alter Rebbe: "One should live with, and experience in one's own life, the specific teaching of that week's Torah portion."

That is precisely what Bolotin attempts with each week's portion. Each chapter concludes with a "Making it Relevant" section featuring several numbered suggestions for readers to explore further. To conclude, a final challenge appears in bold type. "If you try, you can become a living legacy; be the leader of your band," for example.

Several themes recur throughout the book, which is another reason I suggest reading it a few minutes at a time alongside the weekly parshah rather than straight through. Doing so allows the reader to pause and "grasp a new idea."

The notes at the end of the book cite 281 sources, ranging from Chumash, the Babylonian Talmud, Ibn Ezra, and Rabbi Jonathan Sacks z"l to modern behavioral experts.

As Rav Yitzchak A. Breitowitz wrote in a Michtav Bracha, "The careful reader will be rewarded not only with a 'good vort' but with crucial lessons in how to grow as a Jew, an eved Hashem, and indeed as a good human being."

ISBN: 979-8-89767-917-8
Mosaica Press, Inc., 2025