About Us

History

Start Your Day The Torah Way (SYDTTW) was founded by a group of young men in Manchester who wanted a morning shiur before beginning their day's work. They initially approached Rabbis Moshe Kupetz, Yossi Chazzan and Shimon Kaplin, to ask if they would be willing to give shiurim, one week at a time.

Realising that this was a major committment, the idea was modified to having different speakers each day, with these three speakers forming the core. When Rabbi Kupetz was approached, he was learning with Rabbi Jeremy Stanton, who thought of the name "Start Your Day The Torah Way".

The first week of speakers was arranged with some fear that no-one would turn up to listen. Posters were put up in local shuls, and B"H, 100 people came along to the first shiur.

Bli ayin horo, the attendance of the shiurim has grown tremendously, and SYDTTW has become something of an institution in Manchester. We are very proud of the fact that our success has initiated similar events elsewhere. There is now a SYDTTW in Stamford Hill, organised by Rabbi Menashe Sharf, and in Golders Green, organised by Dudi Iczkovits. One is expected to start in Edgware soon, and there have been enquiries from America and Eretz Yisroel as well.

People

We are deeply indebted to the following people for their assistance (names in alphabetical order):-

• Mr Abenson for doing the recordings
• R' Menachem Adler
• R' Eli Bauman
• R' M.B. Brandeis
• R' Dovid Cohen
• Mrs Ruth Collins for the fantastic posters
• R' Pinchos Corn
• R' Avrumi Eckstein for hanging posters
• R' Sruli Eckstein for meeting the ongoing costs of the recordings
• R' Chaim Fulda
• R' Simcha Fulda
• R' E. Goldschmidt
• R' Shmuli Issler for all the hours he spends on the recordings, updating the web site and all the little jobs that no-one else does...
• Mr Kaufman
• Machzekei Hadass
• R' Yaacov Menachem Salomon
• R' Rafi Miller
• R' Yossi Poznanski
• R' Shuli Salzman
• R' Jeremy Schwartz
• R' Shlomo Spielman
• R' Norman Younger, for providing the recording equipment
• ...and of course all of the speakers for their time effort and inspiration, and everyone who comes to the shiurim