Torah reading is a special case since it must be performed directly from a kosher scroll. while adaptive devices may eventually allow a blind person to read directly from the parchment, at this point there are three options for Jews who are blind to read Torah: (1) To receive an aliyah ...
Unfortunately, life in America has proven destructive to all of these criteria for the majority of American Jews. The main force that has kept the Jews together in their various exilic locations over thousands of years has been their Judaism. The need to study and pray sustained the Hebrew lan...
Jacob, after staying true to his relationship to God through various trials during his life. The descendants of Jacob, also known as the Twelve Tribes, have been called Israelites since. However, with the birth of the modern state of Israel in 1948 on the land that Jacob himself lived, the...
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the Torah and to debate its contents. Two factors are important: one, the ability to read, which in the Dark Ages and Middle Ages was rare; second, not to accept blindly what was read but to interrupt and debate. This meant that the Jewish people were a literate society which encouraged...
Learn about the culture of Jewish Free Loans. Read why Jews lend to each other without any interest. Interest Free Loans, the Jewish way. Giving loans, interest free, is an obligation for every Torah Jew since the Torah forbids interests on loans. Many parties are forbidden from usury, not...
OzTorah: Torah reading – Emor April 30, 2014 byJews Down Under 0 Written and Submitted by Rabbi Dr Raymond Apple. SPEAKING OUT. The portion gets its name from a command to speak out (“Emor”) to the priests concerning their duties. By extension there is an issue concerning Emor whic...
But he also wanted young Israelis to understand this too: that on Shabbat, he wasn’t “the honorable Senator,” and not even Joe, but Yosef Yisrael ben Chanan, his name when he was called up to the Torah. In his book, Lieberman describes how listening to the Shabbat Torah reading was...
I am wondering If the Jewish person and/or persons commenting on this post that are attacking Non-Jews and Jews that believe in Jesus , please answer me a few questions: If you are the Superior and follow God and The Torah then why are you defending organizations who promote sexual pervers...
On the first day they carry branches around the altar or pulpit singing psalms; on the seventh day, they carry copies of the Torah out of the ark to the altar, all the congregation joining in the procession seven times around the altar and singing Ps. xxix. On the ninth day they ...