Media personality Amalia Doak, a reporter and anchor on Channel 12, thrilled Facebook users when she shared on her personal account that she has studied the weekly Torah portion every Shabbat for the past year.
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Doak wrote: "A year ago, at the height of the holiday lockdown, I was cleaning out the library and found a Bible I had received for a bat mitzvah. It was a week before Simchat Torah, when they celebrated the completion of the reading of the Torah and starting over from Genesis.".
'"In the most non-binding way, I started reading the first portion of the week, then continued with another one, and somehow it became a regular ritual for me every Saturday morning. From there, a year passed, and yesterday the last portion arrived.".
Doak added: "For the first time in my life, I finished reading the Torah from beginning to end. Honestly, I was mostly embarrassed to discover how little I was taught and how little of that little I actually remembered. This coming Shabbat, we're starting again from Genesis.".
The reactions from users were very supportive, and many wrote that it moved them.
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Surfer Esther Shalom wrote: "Very moving. It's a shame that everything they want to teach in schools is immediately excused by religion. And I'm secular and it's a shame that they don't teach in depth. It's lucky that at least they didn't postpone school until October, otherwise the school children wouldn't know anything about the months of Tishrei and the customs of the holidays.".
Amit Mizrahi responded: "May God bless you. Our studies in secular schools were at grass height, to put it mildly.".
And another surfer responded: "I always intended to and didn't do it. You've provoked me now. I will read the parasha every week (without a vow).".
