I'm leaving Substack

and other 2024 things

I launched this Substack newsletter in the fall of 2020, and it has been an amazing experience. I have loved writing this regular newsletter. It has changed me and how I walk through the world in many ways.

I’ve been a proponent of this platform since I launched With Torah and Love, and I believe in what we’ve been doing together.

However, the founders of this platform are too comfortable taking money from Nazis and white supremacists, and I can’t be a part of that. (You can Google it if you want to know more.) I hope they will change their mind, but until then, I’m leaving Substack. I’m not deleting it because I don’t want to lose the URL, but I won’t be writing here anymore.

To you, my reader, I cannot tell you how grateful I am that you have come on this journey with me. It is not over, and I’ll answer your questions below.

Is the With Torah and Love newsletter done?

Not remotely! In the coming weeks, I’ll transfer my writing to another platform and will get back to writing more. Getting that ready is more complicated than Substack, so getting set up will take some time.

What is happening next?

You might have noticed I took a break in the last few months. I needed a bit of a recharge. With so much happening in the world, I needed to redirect some of my energies.

I love a good new year and the chance to start over. I have big plans for 2024. I will absolutely be writing more. I have a lot more I want to write about the Talmud and lots of Torah I want to share. I hope to offer more classes this year, among other things.

What should we, the readers, do?

At the moment, nothing! Continue being awesome. I ask that you stick around for a few weeks because if you stay signed up, everything should be transferred to the new platform.

However, if you’re so darn excited and want to sign up, I’ve set this up, and you can sign up here. Don’t feel like you have to because I’ll move everyone over soon anyway.

For those of you who have been paying subscribers: Thank you, thank you, thank you. I will be using those resources to pay for the new platforms I need to set up (which take payment in advance, unlike Substack), and I will invite you to continue your support when the time comes. I have some infrastructure stuff to figure out before that.

I have paused all billing on Substack, so no one should be charged again for a while. If you are charged or want to unsubscribe, let me know, and I’ll refund your money or yell at Substack or something. We’ll figure it out.

How can we support you?

For now, stick around.

I am working on a book that I hope will come out in the next few months, inspired by what I’ve been doing here. I will be working on building a book launch reader team, and I’ll send out more information about that when it is time.

I also have a few more ideas about building some new things to offer. If you have ideas of what you want me to offer, please comment on this post or reply to this email! I will be taking all possibilities pretty seriously.

Thank you.

I cannot tell you enough how grateful I am that you’ve been a part of the With Torah and Love community. Even when I’m not writing something here, I think about you and how to add more Talmud and Torah to our lives.

Thank you for being here with me.

With Torah and Love,
Jeremy