Never rains but it pours, and after weeks of neglecting this blog, I have poured my heart out today, trying to capture all my impressions of the homeschool conference before they’re gone. But I do want to stop for a minute and ask readers to consider buying my book, The Family Torah , a project I’ve poured my heart into for the last few months (wrapping up a few years’ work of originally writing these as free parsha summaries each week). Based on talking to people endlessly about the book at the Torah Home Education Conference yesterday, here are a few quick answers to the most basic questions: What’s the main idea of the book? The Family Torah tells the story of the Torah in plain English in a way that can be easily read aloud. How did you choose what to include? I included everything! Well, not quite. Going through the Torah parsha by parsha, I tried to include every major component of the narrative, while at the same time cutting things down for brevity where the Torah