The Mishnah, fully animated in 3D.
A cinematic, classroom-ready Mishnah series for the next generation of learners, beginning with Masechet Sukkah.
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Torah Live's content has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times across the globe, by both secular and religious audiences, and is even featured on EL AL flights. We are not starting from scratch. We are scaling something that already works.
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“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.”
Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks · London, of blessed memory
For scores more leading rabbis of our generation, see our full approbations page.
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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In honor of Rabbi Roth and the team creating the Fully Animated, Masechet Sukkah. Hatzlacha Rabbah enhancing Torah learning in such a beautiful way.
16 days agoFor the Robinson, Glorsky, and Singer Families
16 days agoSponsor one of the hundreds of clay-puppet frames in a Mishnah of your choosing, dedicated in honor or memory of someone you love. Your dedication is listed in the closing credits of that episode, your name goes on the supporters wall, and we send you a signed digital print of your frame.
Sponsor a frameSponsor one full scene inside a Mishnah, dedicated in honor or memory of someone you love. Your dedication is listed in the closing credits of that episode, your name goes on the supporters wall, and we send you a signed digital print of a key frame from your scene.
Sponsor a sceneSponsor one of the fully animated sukkahs in the series, dedicated in honor or memory of someone you love. Your dedication is listed in the closing credits, your name goes on the supporters wall in the founders' tier, and you receive a signed, framed art print of your sukkah plus a family Zoom Q&A with Rabbi Dan and the production team.
Sponsor a sukkahUnderwrite 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.
Sponsor an overviewSponsor 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.
Sponsor a MishnahRav 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.
Sponsor a dedicationUnderwrite 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.
Sponsor a perekUnderwrite 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.
Underwrite an editionLay 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.
Become the lead partnerNaming and dedication available at every level. about a custom partnership. Torah Live is a 501(c)(3); your gift is tax-deductible.
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.
Rabbi Dan made one for his own grandfather, Mr. Chaim Schreiber: A Kiddush Hashem on the BBC →
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.
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
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 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.
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 isn't just sitting through happily. They're mesmerized, engaged, enthralled — quietly absorbing the depth of the Mishnah right alongside their child.
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.
“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 Manning · Jerusalem
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Each Mishnah brings together a narrator, a teacher, and an animated guide — designed to feel familiar from episode one to episode one hundred.
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.
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 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 Gorin · Miami
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.
Two independent surveys — one of Torah Live parents, one of classroom teachers — confirm what families are already telling us anecdotally.
Source: MSL Consulting Group, independent survey of 240+ teachers, 2018.
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 Tropper · Baltimore
Gedolim, poskim, and educators from across the Jewish world — one voice. Click any card to hear them.
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"
Aish Kodesh, Woodmere NY
"...It's new, it's clear, it's profound and it's beautiful"
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"
World Renowned Lecturer
"Torah Live will be an eye opening experience for students...I encourage everyone to help Rabbi Roth with this project"
Rosh Yeshiva, Yeshiva University
"They should introduce this to all the schools and yeshivas"
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."
CEO and Rabbinic Administrator, OU Kosher
"It really represents the beginning of a revolution in Torah education... "
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...”
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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Adas Yeshurun Shul, Chicago
"Torah Live has tremendous potential to help Klal Yisrael"
Rosh Kollel and Rosh Va'ad Hachinuch, Chicago
"Tremendous tool for teaching Torah"
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"
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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."
Rabbi 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.
