 The book was divided according to the weekly Torah portion ("Parashat hashevua"); Rabbi Culi explains each chapter in detail according to the Midrash and Talmud, as well as discussing the relevant "Halacha" as based on the "Shulchan Aruch" and "Mishneh Torah".In his introduction Rabbi Culi personally guarantees that "everyone who reads the "Me'am Loez" every day will be able to answer in Heaven that he has learned the "whole" Torah, because all aspects of the Torah are covered on it".While Rabbi Culi died only two years later after completing the Book of Genesis and 2/3 of Exodus, due to its mass popularity—and the extensive notes already written by Rabbi Culi—a decision was taken to complete the commentaries.