Hi everyone this is Robbie Knopf and this is a blog where I combine both of my interests, Torah and baseball. This blog is about Torah- if you want baseball you can check out my other blog here and my writing about the Rays over here.
What I am trying to do with this is to use baseball to inspire Torah. There are so many ideas in the Torah that we don't understand or we don't appreciate. Something I like to do is think about Torah concepts in baseball terms, and every once in a while, it actually helps me understand the concept. On this site, I'm planning to give a weekly Dvar Torah on the Parshah with a baseball analogy that (hopefully) ties it all together. Also, I'm going to do other fun weekly features like Gamatria (numerical value) of the Week where I relate the Gematria of something in the Parshah to something in baseball (ex. 262 was Ichiro's record of 262 hits in a season in 2004), and a Player of the Week whose name somehow relates to the Parshah (ex. Harry Desert for BaMidbar). I'll also do some impromptu posts when things happen (if ITtB was around, I definitely would have done a post on the reformation of Josh Hamilton). Also, I will hopefully think of other features to do, and you're welcome to comment on any of my posts with a suggestion (recent ones please- if you comment 2 years from now on this post, I probably won't see it).
This is going to be a lot of fun and I hope and anticipate that both you and I will learn something. I hope you all enjoy.
I'll put something up on ITtB later today, and my Dvar Torah on Korach will go up tomorrow.
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