Torah
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- noun
- /ˈtɔrə/
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- The Torah serves as a central text in Jewish religious life and law.
- Torah commandments
- oral Torah
- interpretation of the Torah
It's the way that I feel when I learn Torah that feels timeless.
- It's the way that I feel when I learn Torah that feels timeless.
- There are some people who try to argue that the the Torah does not forbid them.
- A scholar is someone who studies the Torah, the Talmud.
- So you know, when I do my Torah teachings on Saturday mornings on Zoom, now this is what I'm after.
- For example, They turn Joshua and David into learned Torah scholars, saying they had really no interest in warfare at all.
- And this book distills, yes, teachings of the Bible, of the Torah, of Jewish thought of literally an unbroken chain of thousands of years.
Examples
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After all, our matriarchs in the Torah, also struggling with infertility, asked God for help.
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Paul is a fine boy, and Mark is an excellent student of the Torah and the Talmud.
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What part of the Torah would you grant to be based upon historical reality? -
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In effect, the Torah is the "constitution" of the Jewish faith and people.
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However, asking me to believe the Oral Torah as a matter of faith is simply wrong.
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The text of the Torah that we have does not address a perfect world, a utopian world.
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A scholar is someone who studies the Torah, the Talmud.
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Traditionally, only Jewish boys and men read Torah and Talmud in study houses.
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Crisscrossing the Torah is a code of words and phrases... that not only reveals our past and present, but foretells our future.
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And this book distills, yes, teachings of the Bible, of the Torah, of Jewish thought of literally an unbroken chain of thousands of years.
Compounds
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A Jewish festival to celebrate finishing the yearly Torah readings and starting them again with dancing and singing
A Jewish festival when people finish and immediately begin the yearly Torah readings, often with singing and dancing
A Jewish holy day at the end of Sukkot when people celebrate finishing the yearly Torah readings
A Jewish holiday at the end of Sukkot when people celebrate finishing the yearly Torah readings
Surface Forms
Etymology
Torah is sometimes used for the whole body of Jewish teaching and tradition; it comes from the Hebrew root yarah meaning 'to teach', so the word grew to mean all the sacred teachings and their explanations.