Darcey Walters

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Mar 11, 2024, 3:07 AM

The Living Torah on International Women’s Day

When we quote the gedolim, we should always, after their name write “says”, rather than said. It’s important that we acknowledge that our gedolim are here with us and we should feel their presence when we are learning their...

Jan 25, 2024, 11:32 PM

Trees and Inheritance

The Gemara (Taanit 23a) talks about a man who planted a carob tree – and someone asked him why, since it would take 70 years to grow, and he wouldn’t be alive to see it. The man’s response was...

Feb 17, 2023, 5:59 AM

Naaseh V’nishma: A Slogan Which Makes The Brand

Brands are recognised through various factors, including colours, items, names, slogans, and symbols, and as well as that, they come with an identity and a label. They also come with a promise and reliability, an efficiency and consistency. When...

Jan 16, 2023, 9:52 PM

Putting the Torah into Derekh Eretz

Shammai tells us (Avot 1:15) – עֲשֵׂה תוֹרָתְךָ קֶבַע, make your Torah permanent but we also learn from Rabban Gamliel that Torah study is so great when it is combined with worldly occupation, known as Derekh Eretz (Avot 2:2). Is there a...

Jan 5, 2023, 1:33 PM

Vayechi: Human Uniqueness and the Rav

"All these are the tribes of Israel, twelve of them; each according to his blessing he blessed them." (Bereishit 49:28) Rav Aharon Lichtenstein z’l, commenting on this pasuk, notes that there are two factors which form a person’s character, that...

Dec 29, 2022, 6:49 PM

Asei Toratkha Keva: Life After Midrasha/Yeshiva

As human beings, we are confronted by conflicting and opposing norms and contrasting values. We were created from all parts of the earth, we are curious and interested in universal issues and have an interest in knowing things which...

Oct 20, 2022, 2:35 PM

Dedication to Discipline: Women and Simchat Torah

Halakha does not change. That is, Torah, mitzvot, Chazal and their underlying way of studying and transmitting the Torah - one of them being that men and women have different obligations which are Eternal. Psak halakha is how it’s...

Jul 25, 2022, 6:19 AM

Commit and Command

We are living in a time where religious observance and tradition speaks to people in different ways. It is like being at a kiddush where you eat an array of different foods, and some things appeal more to you...

May 13, 2022, 5:56 PM

Emor: How To Approach The Omer

The psukim say: “You shall count for yourselves - from the morrow of the rest day, from the day when you bring the Omer of the waving - seven weeks, they shall be complete. Until the morrow of the...

Apr 28, 2022, 8:00 PM

Reflections on Yom HaShoah

Jewish music is a very big part of my life - whether that is at the Shabbat table every week with my family, the music I listen to in my spare time, the tisch I have on camp or...

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About Me

Darcey is from London, where she works in marketing, and invests her time in various Torah education initiatives, working independently and with various organisations. She is the founder of the "Desert Island Torah" podcast which has reached tens of thousands of people across the globe, in over 50 countries. Darcey has written many articles and two books, and is working on several other works to be published in 2024.