In "Giving: The Essential Teaching of the Kabbalah," Rabbi Yehuda Lev Ashlag's insights are presented by Rabbi Avraham Mordechai Gottlieb, focusing on Kabbalistic aspects of giving and human perfection according to Torah.

The author reflects on his personal journey as a gay Torah Jew and relates it to the narrative of the acceptance of the Torah by the children of Israel.

Rabbi Yaakov Leiner, a Hasidic master, offers a contemporary reading of the midrash that states the Torah was given in the morning and the ordinances in the evening.