Kesher's Rabbi Rabbi Simon (www.kesher,.org.uk) starts off the year's weekly Torah class looking at each Torah portion with the additional Torah gems and insights from a selected Torah sage. This year's commentary comes from Rabbi Simon's 'friend for the year' Rabbi Yaakov Tzvi Mecklenberg (the Rabbi in Konigsberg (Prussia); born in 1785 died 1865). Rabbi Mecklenberg's commentary on the Torah is called (in Hebrew) ha-Ketav ve-ha-Kabbalah meaning 'The Text & The Tradition'.