Imagine that you are standing in front of a vault filled with gold, silver, and precious stones. They are yours for the taking. 
     But the vault is locked and you don't know the combination! 
    If you have no access to all that wealth, it might as well be on another planet. How much would you give to unlock it? 

    There is a treasure far more valuable than the contents of any safe, but it has been locked away from millions of Jews. That treasure is our Jewish literary heritage: the Torah, the Talmud, the Mishnah, the Siddur and Machzor, our history, the stories and values that connect us to our past and lay the foundations of our future. 
    This incredible wealth of spiritual, intellectual, ethical, religious, historical, legal, and moral texts is the bedrock, the inspiration, of Western civilization. 
    But most of this wealth is in ancient Hebrew and Aramaic, and presented in literary styles and with complex reasoning that are incomprehensible to most modern readers. Our authentic Jewish heritage has been locked away from English-speaking Jews for too long. 
    This fact was sadly true for centuries - until The Mesorah Heritage Foundation was created to "unlock the vault." Our goal is to remove the language barrier and make the riches of Jewish eternity available to English-speaking Jews. Here is what we do:

The Mesorah Heritage Foundation recruits accomplished translators, scholars, writers, and editors who free our great texts from the captivity of ancient languages and bring them to English-speaking Jews in books that are beautifully produced and literarily graceful. At this writing, more than a hundred scholars in America, Israel, and Europe are producing an English-language Torah literature that will endure for generations.

The amount of research and intensive review necessary to produce such a voluminous literature cannot be supported by the commercial market. Look at the most important secular cultural undertakings: great universities, libraries, orchestras, even medical research - all must have substantial public and private support. The production of a great Torah literature is no different. Without generous public participation, it cannot be created.

Everyone can be a part of this monumental undertaking. People of vision and means can do more. Virtually everyone can contribute something. There are many alternatives: