Hi everyone, welcome back to another episode of The Chai on Life Podcast. I’m Alex Segal and today I’m speaking with Katia Bolotin, the author of Making it Relevant: Timeless Torah Wisdom for an Ever-Changing World which came out at the end of last year.

Katia is an author and speaker as well as a pianist, songwriter and composer of contemporary classical music. She is known for inspiring audiences with teachings that are both deeply rooted in Torah as well as being contemporary. Her writing is warm, clear, and emotionally resonant — grounded in real experience rather than theory.

As I moved through her book, I really felt that. Each chapter focuses on a different parsha and is relatable and easy to read. It makes the parsha approachable and offers at least one practical takeaway or exercise you can do to really bring the Torah’s teachings immediately into your life. It could be fun to learn with a friend or chavruta for that purpose as well and really motivate each other.

In the episode, we speak about:

-Why she decided to write a book on parsha specifically

-How we can use the Torah as the greatest self-help book

-Why life is more like a ladder and less like a bridge and what that ladder can teach us 

-How Katia grounds herself through Torah

-The dangers of comparing oneself to others and how to work on that in both a physical and spiritual way

-What the duality present in the Torah can teach us about the world

-What masculine and feminine energy look like through a Torah lens

-The best way to transmit Torah to our children

...and so much more!

Get Katia’s book here.

Follow Katia on Instagram here and through her website here.

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