Voiceover Narrator
Rabbi Gavriel Friedman
Rav Gav voices the spine of the series — teaching every Mishnah with clarity, warmth, and the kind of authority that comes from a lifetime in front of students.
A Torah Live Landmark Project
A First in 2,000 Years.
The Mishnah, fully animated in 3D.
A cinematic, classroom-ready Mishnah series for the next generation of learners, beginning with Masechet Sukkah. Launching one month before Sukkot 2026.
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Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksLondon, of blessed memory
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The Moment
A generation of kids who own Shas.
In a single generation, ArtScroll's Schottenstein Shas opened the Talmud to an English-speaking world. Suddenly, every family could own and learn the full Shas at home.
The next leap is visual. This generation does not read like the last one — they watch, they re-watch, they learn from screens. The question is no longer will Mishnah be on screen? The question is: who builds the version that matches the Torah's true beauty?
Mommy, this is so good! It's just like those other videos you don't let us watch.
A child, on Torah Live · Los Angeles
The Vision
One Mishnah. Three kinds of learners. All enthralled.
Torah Live is producing the Mishnah as a fully animated 3D series — cinematic enough for kids who grew up on Pixar, accurate enough for the most serious classrooms, and so good that parents and grandparents love every minute too.
The Child
Watches wide-eyed.
The same kid who would scroll past a shiur sits still and asks, "Can we watch another one?" The Mishnah becomes a story they want to live inside.
The Teacher
Plays it on repeat.
A ready-to-use, classroom-grade visualization of every Mishnah — finally giving rebbeim and morahs a tool as compelling as the Torah they are teaching.
The Parent
Sits through — mesmerized.
The parent isn't just sitting through happily. They're mesmerized, engaged, enthralled — quietly absorbing the depth of the Mishnah right alongside their child.
The Voice
Narrated by Rav Gav.
Rabbi Gavriel Friedman — Rav Gav — is the warm, clear, deeply respected voice carrying every Mishnah. A senior maggid shiur whose teaching reaches Jews across the spectrum, his voice is the through-line of the entire series.
- Senior lecturer, Aish HaTorah Yeshiva, Jerusalem
- Featured Daf Yomi maggid shiur, Orthodox Union
- Decades guiding students of every background back to Torah
- A voice that translates depth without losing it
“Torah Live communicates with people in a language they understand and enjoy — a visionary and imaginative presentation which engages young people in an exciting and professional way.”
Rabbi Anthony ManningJerusalem
Visual Direction
A signature look the world hasn't seen on a Mishnah before.
Warm 3D stop-motion clay aesthetic. Tactile, cinematic, and unmistakably Torah Live — instantly recognizable across hundreds of future episodes. A look serious enough to honor the text, and playful enough that a ten-year-old leans in. Every frame on this page is from the actual production design.
The Style Guide
One world. Every Mishnah lives inside it.
Four production frames, one consistent universe. Whether the Mishnah is teaching about a sukkah built too high, a sukkah built on a ship, an existing structure adapted into a sukkah, or a sukkah barely tall enough to stand in — the visual language stays unmistakably Torah Live across all of them.
3D Stop-Motion ClayWarm Cinematic LightClassroom-Accurate
Sample Frame 01
Sukkah on the beach.
The kind of image a child remembers for life. A real production frame from Masechet Sukkah — composed, lit, and rendered to feel cinematic without losing the warmth that makes the series feel like Torah, not a movie trailer.
This is the level of polish every Mishnah will receive. Hundreds of frames like it, end to end.
Sample Frame 02
When a halacha is a measurement, the camera shows you.
Mr. Builder pulls out his tape measure. The Mishnah's debate over the height of a kosher sukkah stops being an abstract argument on a page and becomes a thing you can see, feel, and remember.
Sample Frame 03
A sukkah taller than twenty amos. Posul.
The very first Mishnah of Masechet Sukkah opens with this exact case. A graphic ruler, an oversized sukkah, and a child suddenly understanding — in three seconds — what would have taken three paragraphs of explanation.
Sample Frame 04
Halacha, told as a story kids actually want to follow.
Every family knows this sukkah. The one you drag out of the shed a week before Sukkos and immediately regret. Cobwebs. Crooked walls. Mr. Builder with a hammer and a face that says “I thought we threw this out last year.”
The humor isn't decoration — it's the engine. Kids laugh, parents laugh, and the halacha lands while everyone's leaning in. That's the difference between a textbook and a story your child re-watches on motzaʼei Shabbos.
Sample Frame 05
And one that is too short. Also posul.
Ten tefachim. Eighty centimeters. The minimum height for a kosher sukkah, taught not by quoting the gemara but by watching Mr. Builder fold himself in half trying to sit inside it. The halacha lands the moment the joke does.
Sample Frame 06
Wind, weather, and the question of walls.
The Mishnah's discussion of valid sukkah walls — walls that hold up to a typical wind — gets its own visual punchline. Stop-motion comedy meets serious halachic content, which is exactly the formula every Torah Live frame is engineered to deliver.
Sample Frame 07
A studio the audience returns to.
Every Mishnah opens and closes back in this clay-puppet studio — vintage cameras, warm bulbs, Rabbi Dan walking us in. After three or four episodes, a child sees the studio and already feels at home. That familiarity is what carries a 53-mishnah masechta — and a series built to outlast any single episode.
The Cast
A series built around three trusted characters.
Each Mishnah brings together a narrator, a teacher, and an animated guide — designed to feel familiar from episode one to episode one hundred.
On-Screen Host & Cameos
Rabbi Dan Roth
Torah Live's founder, on-camera as a clay-puppet version of himself, opening each Mishnah and dropping into key scenes — the connective tissue between the studio set and the animated world.
The Foil
Mr. Builder
The series' breakout character — a clay-puppet contractor who keeps building sukkahs the wrong way so Rabbi Dan can teach the right way. The Mishnah, taught through visual comedy a seven-year-old will quote at the Shabbos table.
“For my children and family to have an entertaining, highly professional and accurate resource... My children run, literally, to watch the videos and absolutely love them.”
Isaac GorinMiami
Why Sukkah First
The most visual tractate in Shas.
Masechet Sukkah is the perfect first chapter. Walls and schach. Heights and shadows. Lulav, esrog, hadasim, aravos. Every halacha lives or dies on a diagram — exactly what 3D animation was built to do.
Sukkah lets us prove the entire visual grammar of the series in one focused tractate, and arrives in homes and classrooms one month before Sukkot 2026 — exactly when families are looking for it.
The Numbers
The data behind the “please make more.”
Two independent surveys — one of Torah Live parents, one of classroom teachers — confirm what families are already telling us anecdotally.
Teachers
Independently surveyed.
- 93% rated Torah Live's video quality as excellent or above average
- 84% said the films engaged students differently than their other curriculum
- 73% said it increased their students' pride in being a Jew
- 70% said it increased their students' thirst for more observance
Source: MSL Consulting Group, independent survey of 240+ teachers, 2018.
Parents & Students
What families tell us.
- 84% of parents say Torah Live teaches their children about Judaism while having fun
- 80% of children share what they've learned with parents, siblings, or friends
- 75% of children gain a greater understanding and appreciation of mitzvot
Source: Torah Live parent survey, 385 verified accounts, September 2020.
“It was amazing to see how powerfully and quickly the material and its mode of presentation captured the hearts and minds of my students.”
Rabbi Yosef TropperBaltimore
The Ask
Nine ways to put your name on history.
From a single animated frame to the lead partnership of the entire tractate — every level becomes a named, permanent learning experience for generations of children. Choose the partnership that fits your vision.
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Be the first to walk in
The sea split because one man walked in first. No one has stepped in yet. Lay the foundation, and your name leads the list every partner sees from here on.
Be the first partnerA Frame
$180 a single frame
Put your name on a single frame of the Mishnah, forever. Every animated Mishnah is built from hundreds of clay-puppet frames. For $180, you sponsor one of them in honor or memory of someone you love.
- A dedicated frame in one of the animated Mishnayos of Masechet Sukkah, with your dedication (“L’iluy nishmas…” / “In honor of…”) listed in the closing credits of that episode
- Your name on the permanent Mishnah Sukkah supporters wall
- A digital print of your sponsored frame, signed by Rabbi Dan Roth, delivered to your inbox
Chai × 10. The smallest, most personal way to be part of the first animated Mishnah in 2,000 years.
A Scene
$360 one full scene
Sponsor one scene of one Mishnah, in honor of someone special. Each Mishnah is built from several distinct scenes — Rav Gav teaching, the contractor building the sukkah wrong, the schach floating into place. For $360, you sponsor one full scene.
- A dedicated scene in a Mishnah of your choosing, with your dedication listed in the closing credits of that episode
- Your name and dedication on the Mishnah Sukkah supporters wall
- A digital print of a key frame from your scene, signed by Rabbi Dan
Double chai. A scene the whole family will rewatch, with your dedication honored in its credits.
A Sukkah
$1,200 one animated sukkah
Sponsor one of the sukkahs in the series. Masechet Sukkah is, of course, full of sukkahs — kosher ones, pasul ones, the contractor’s disasters, the schach demos. For $1,200, you sponsor one fully animated sukkah that appears in the series.
- A dedicated sukkah in one of the Mishnayos, with your dedication listed in the closing credits of that episode
- Your name and dedication on the Mishnah Sukkah supporters wall, in the founders’ tier
- A signed, framed art print of your sukkah, shipped to your home (worldwide)
- A live Zoom Q&A with Rabbi Dan and the production team, for you and your family
A piece of Masechet Sukkah, built and named for someone you love, that families will be learning from for generations.
A Chapter Overview
$3,600 per chapter overview
Underwrite the animated overview video for one of the five chapters — the high-level walkthrough that frames every Mishnah in the perek and sets the stage for deep learning. Five available, one per chapter.
A Mishnah
$7,200 per Mishnah
Sponsor the full production of a single animated Mishnah — script, voiceover, animation, music, and distribution. Dedicate it in memory or in honor of someone whose Torah lives on through it.
A Dedication Video
$18,000 three Mishnayos + personal tribute
Rav Gav opens with a personal dedication to your loved one — speaking about them by name, weaving in photos and stories you provide — and your name is on three full Mishnayos. Three Mishnah dedications ($21,600 in standalone value) plus the on-screen tribute, for $18,000.
A Perek
$36,000 per chapter · 5 available
Underwrite a full chapter of Masechet Sukkah — roughly a dozen Mishnayos forming one continuous learning arc. Five chapters in the tractate, each available as a complete, named, permanent body of work.
The Masechta
$100,000 Hebrew or English edition
Underwrite the entire tractate in one language — Hebrew or English. Your name, your dedication, on the first fully animated Masechet Sukkah in 2,000 years, in the language of an entire generation of learners.
Lead Partner
The Foundation
$180,000 bilingual · both editions
Lay the foundation of the entire project. Underwrite both the Hebrew and English editions of Masechet Sukkah — the lead partner who made the first fully animated tractate of Mishnah in 2,000 years possible, and the next 524 inevitable.
Naming and dedication available at every level. about a custom partnership.
Legacy Video
Memorialize a parent or grandparent.
A legacy video is a beautiful way to honor a loved one and teach future generations about their life. Torah Live can produce a short film built around your family's stories, photos, and legacy — something children and grandchildren will return to for decades.
Dan made one for his own grandfather, Mr. Chaim Schreiber:A Kiddush Hashem on the BBC →
Corporate Sponsorship
Put your company's name on Jewish education.
Your company's logo can appear on a specific video, on the Torah Live platform, or alongside the institutions you choose to support — reaching hundreds of thousands of viewers across 38+ countries. Torah Live is a 501(c)(3); your contribution can be structured as an advertising expense, so it works for your bottom line while you give back.
From leading rabbis of our generation
Blessings on Torah Live's mission.
Gedolim, poskim, and educators from across the Jewish world — one voice. Click any card to hear them.
Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky
Rosh Yeshiva, Yeshiva of Philadelphia
"I'm very impressed with this undertaking...people will find great satisfaction with this presentation...technology should be used to spread the word of Torah"
Rabbi Moshe Weinberger
Aish Kodesh, Woodmere NY
"...It's new, it's clear, it's profound and it's beautiful"
Rabbi Asher Weiss
Renowned Halachic Authority, Jerusalem
"A game changer...this is what our generation needs, it's harnessing technology to advance the appreciation and love of Torah...Torah Live has my total support"
Rabbi Yissocher Frand
World Renowned Lecturer
"Torah Live will be an eye opening experience for students...I encourage everyone to help Rabbi Roth with this project"
Rabbi Hershel Schachter
Rosh Yeshiva, Yeshiva University
"They should introduce this to all the schools and yeshivas"
Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks Zt'l
London
"It is rare to see talent of this order used to so high and holy a cause. Rabbi Roth's inspirational videos are outstanding. They will unlock the doors of learning to many."
Rabbi Menachem Genack
CEO and Rabbinic Administrator, OU Kosher
"It really represents the beginning of a revolution in Torah education... "
Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz
Rabbi Emeritus of Woodside Synagogue Ahavas Torah, Rav of Kehillas Ohr Somayach
“A monumental project deserving our full support... engages children and people of all ages...”
Rabbi Noach Orlowek
World Renowned Educator, Israel
"Torah was given in 70 languages because each student must be taught in the language they best understand. Today, for many people, the visual language provides the ability to show Torah in a way that is alive..."
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Rabbi Zev Cohen
Adas Yeshurun Shul, Chicago
"Torah Live has tremendous potential to help Klal Yisrael"
Rabbi Dovid Zucker
Rosh Kollel and Rosh Va'ad Hachinuch, Chicago
"Tremendous tool for teaching Torah"
Rabbi Shmuel Irons
Rosh Hakollel, Kollel Institute of Greater Detroit
"I've seen the work of Rabbi Dan Roth, it's amazing...it opens up a whole new world to learn halacha and hashkafa"
All endorsing rabbis — scroll to explore
- Rabbi Nachman KahanaAuthor of Mei Menuchot Series on Tosefot
- Rabbi Meir GoldwichtRosh Yeshiva, Yeshiva University
- Rabbi Ephraim ShapiroShaaray Tefilah, North Miami Beach
- Rabbi Moshe Tuvia LieffAgudas Israel Beis Binyomin, Flatbush
- Rabbi Yakov KrausePrincipal of Toras Emes School, Los Angeles
- Rabbi Yaakov BenderRosh Yeshiva of Darchei Torah, Far Rockaway
- Rabbi Hershel BeckerYoung Israel of Kendall, Florida
- Rabbi Lawrence KelemenNeveh Yerushalayim
- Rabbi Nissan KaplanMir Yeshiva Jerusalem
- Rabbi Nosson MullerMenahel Yeshivas Tiferes Tzvi, Chicago
- Rabbi Steve WeilSenior Managing Director of the Orthodox Union, New York
- Rabbi David OzeriRav, Congregation Yad Yosef
- Rabbi Amram KuessousMenahel, Yeshiva Shaarei Torah
- Rabbi Yitzchak BerkovitsRosh Kollel and Posek, Jerusalem
- Rabbi Dr. Abraham Twerski Zt'lLecturer, Author and Therapist, Pittsburg
- Rabbi Zev LeffRav of Moshav Matityahu, Israel
- Rabbi Pinchas GoldschmidtRav of Moscow
- Grand Rabbi Yitzchak KorffZvhil Mezbuz Rebbe
- Rabbi Aharon LopianskyRosh Yeshiva of Greater Washington
- Rabbi David PeretzChief Rabbi of the Sephardic Jewish community of Panama at Beth Shevet Ahim
- Rabbi Andrew ShawMizrachi UK
- Rabbi Yosef Tzvi RimonChief Rabbi of Gush Etzion & President, World Mizrachi
- Rabbi Mordechai WilligRosh Yeshiva, Yeshiva University
- Rabbi Efrem GoldbergSenior Rabbi, Boca Raton Synagogue
A Closing Thought
Be the Nachshon.
נַחְשׁוֹן בֶּן עַמִּינָדָב
The sea did not split because the Jewish people prayed. It split because one man walked in first.
Nachshon ben Aminadav stepped into water up to his neck before anyone else moved. He did not wait for consensus, or comfort, or a sign. He understood something simple and very hard: great things in Jewish history begin with one person willing to be first.
For 2,000 years, the Mishnah has been studied, translated, beautifully printed — but never fully animated. Never made visual at the scale this generation lives in. It will be done in our lifetime. The only question is: who lays the foundation?
It only takes one Nachshon to step in first — and turn an entire generation toward Torah they can see.
"Each one of us was sent here to accomplish a mission."
The Invitation
Walk in first. Lay the foundation.
Dan would love to walk you through the storyboards, the production roadmap, and the dedication options — in person or on a 15-minute video call. Whichever feels right.
With gratitude, Rabbi Dan Roth · Founder, Torah Live · Jerusalem