A sheet of paper, every week, for nothing.

Spread Light 358 is a weekly word of Torah. It is written by a fixed roster of contributors, laid out as a four-page bi-fold, printed on a single tabloid sheet, and put out where people will pick it up. It has never been sold and it never will be.

The name carries its own gematria: 358, the same as משיח. It sits in the masthead as a standing reminder of what the whole enterprise is aimed at.

How an issue is built

Every contributor writes his own piece in his own voice, and nothing is trimmed to make the page fit. When six submissions arrive for four pages, the design absorbs the pressure — the type size, the cover image, the sponsor band — rather than the writing. That rule has held from the first issue.

The Hebrew is set properly, pointed where it should be pointed, and read right to left inside an English page that runs left to right. The candle lighting and the Hebrew date are entered by hand every week, never derived, because a printed sheet that is wrong about a zman is worse than no sheet at all.

The contributors

Rabbi Avrohom Jacks, Reb Adam Klasner, Reb Yacov Aboudi, Rabbi Nachum Aaron Kutnowski, Rabbi Adam Law, and Moshe Herskovits on the gematria. Between them they cover the parsha, mussar, avodah, and the week's numbers.

Sponsoring an issue

The back page carries a small band of sponsors. Sponsorship pays for the print run, and a sponsor's mark sits on every copy that goes out that week — in shuls, on tables, and in the hands of people who read it and pass it on.

To sponsor, to print it for your own shul, or to send a piece for a future issue, write to spreadlight358@gmail.com.