Some people manage to write in just a way that mirrors their personality. Jonathan Magonet is one of those outstanding writers - his clarity, warmth, gentleness and deeply knowledgeable and insightful reading of the Bible is both extremely rabbinic and also mirrors perfectly his personality. This book is a superb reading of the Bible for Rabbis and lay people of all faiths and none. -- Laura Janner-Klausner

The first chapters of the Hebrew Bible (the Torah) are vividly brought to life by Rabbi Dr Jonathan Magonet with is characteristic wit and wisdom. He shows how the moral issues that the rabbis debated are still relevant today. I hope the book will encourage churches to include the Old Testament readings and clergy to preach about them.-- Rev Dr Marcus Braybrooke,President of the World Congress of Faiths

This worthy successor to Rabbi Magonet’s A Rabbi Reads the Bible and A Rabbi Reads the Psalms, is a superb collection of fifty two musings on aspects of the Torah, book by book and portion by portion in chronological order. The origin of the material lies in a series of radio broadcasts delivered by Jonathan Magonet over a number of years in Germany. None of the fifty two chapters is especially long, though a few are shorter than others, but each contains thoughtful and wise analysis, a beautiful use of language, and the potential to inform and educate. A Rabbi Reads the Torah would make a perfect gift for anyone who is Jewishly engaged, as well as for non-Jews keen to experience a master-interpreter’s Jewish perspectives on the Pentateuch. It would work very well for a book club, or study group, or even as an alternative to the actual Torah reading on a Shabbat morning!-- Rabbi Dr Charles H Middleburgh