Let’s be honest: the Torah has a public relations problem. But it’s not the Torah’s fault. It’s ours.

Rav Shlomo Katz opens up the heartbreak, confusion, and beauty of trying to represent Torah in today’s world. Why is it that so many people recoil at the mention of Torah and mitzvot? Why does a vision of holiness sometimes come across as judgment, rigidity, or even oppression?

Rav Shlomo calls it out directly: we’ve been shouting Torah without embodying its sweetness. Acting in Hashem’s name without transmitting His rachamim. Building ideological kingdoms while forgetting the human heart. And that’s why the Rebbe’s vision of a “Kingdom of Priests”—a people who bring light through example, not force—is more relevant than ever.

The repair begins when we reintroduce Torah not as a demand, but as a love song. When we live it with beauty, humility, and emunah. When our words reflect the same Divine compassion that gave us those words in the first place.

Because Torah without love is not Torah. And love without Torah is not enough.