Thank You Hashem is proud to bring the 12 Pesukim Project to our worldwide audience. This project focuses on a curated collection of foundational biblical verses and Rabbinic sayings that were introduced by the Lubavitcher Rebbe 50 years ago in 1976. His visionary initiative encourages children worldwide to memorize these specific texts, so that every single child should know these verses deeply, being fully armed, ready, and able to teach these foundational truths to other Jews everywhere.
Torah – The Spark Within / Feat. Eli Marcus
תורה צוה לנו משה מורשה קהלת יעקב
“Torah tziva lanu Moshe, morasha kehillat Yaakov.”
“The Torah that Moshe commanded us is a heritage for the congregation of Jacob.”
(Devarim / Deuteronomy 33:4)
The core message of Torah Tziva is how precious and special Torah is! Every Yid, no matter who, inherits the entire Torah! We need to know that every part of Torah belongs to us, and we just need to take this special treasure and use it.
Each of the 12 Pesukim is packed with many ideas that can be explored.
We heard an amazing additional interpretation from Harav Yussie Zakutinsky Shlita.
The simple understanding of this verse is straightforward: Hashem gave the Torah to Moshe, and Moshe passed those teachings down to us. However, the Zohar Hakadosh reveals an even deeper reality: inside every neshamah, soul, at its very core, exists a spark of Moshe Rabbeinu’s own soul.
When the pasuk, verse, declares that Moshe commanded us the Torah, inheriting it to the entire congregation of Jacob, it means more than just a historical figure acting as an intermediary. It signifies that the Ribbono shel Olam, Master of the World, granted the Torah to each of us directly, because a part of Moshe resides within every single Jew. The Torah is the intrinsic inheritance of the Jewish people, not a secondary gift passed along to us by someone else.
What does it truly mean to carry a spark of Moshe Rabbeinu?
Moshe was a profound mystery, even to his own generation. When he taught Torah, he had to veil his face because the light radiating from him was overwhelmingly intense. Hashem even rebuked Miriam and Aaron, asking how they could speak lightly of someone so uniquely exalted.
Because that same spark exists within us, the deepest part of who we are is also incredibly luminous, remarkably deep, and fundamentally a mystery, even to ourselves.
We often walk around believing we completely understand who we are, charting out our specific strengths and weaknesses. But just as no one in Moshe’s time could fully grasp or appreciate his true greatness, we fail to fully comprehend the vastness of our own spiritual potential. It is precisely from that hidden, deep place within us—the part whose true depth we cannot even consciously fathom—that the Torah is given to us.
TYH Music/Mendy Portnoy/Farbrengable Studios
Music Produced and Arranged by Mendy Portnoy
Thank You to the incredible team at Tzivos Hashem for their incredible work disseminating the 12 Pesukim and their help getting this project launched.
