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Hello to all our followers. First, some stats. It's been less than 4 months since our launch, and we have sold close to 500 books! About half of those were personalized books (yes we do some non personalized as well), and over 150 were Haggadahs for Passover. We've worked with some great schools and organizations delivering our personalized board books to four different countries so far (Israel still isn't on the list for some reason). We have 2 new books on the way (one to be released tomorrow), plus some really great surprises down the line. We've been lucky enough to have a great team and some great companies which we've been working with. After that long long introduction, the...

There are many books written about the role that education of our children plays in Judaism, yet in fact it’s impossible to sum it up; it’s just part and parcel, the fabric of what Judaism is. It’s front and center in each of the holidays - on Purim it’s kids who saved us, the Passover Seder is all one big answer to the four questions, Chanukah in fact shares the root word with the Hebrew word for education, and so on. Prominent Jewish leaders gave their lives in their work of passing down our traditions to the next generation. The Talmud tells us the world only continues to go on thanks to the voices of children learning Torah. Rashi, the primary commentator across the...