''The Pentateuch'' is a Christian term, derived from Greek, used to describe the first five books of the Bible. These are Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. The Pentateuch was written in the Hebrew language, in which it is known as theTorah. ...
Two opposite interpretations[3] highlight two very different approaches to faith and religiosity: Are we making a factual observation, subject to various forms of argumentation, that the Torah was, indeed, written by God? Or, are we making a statement about our feelings about the Torah, about...
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This article deals with a surprising practice of placing a Torah scroll on a funeral bier and crying out: "This one fulfilled what is written in that one." An allusion to this custom already appears in a Tannaitic haggadah that tells about the bringing of Joseph's bones to burial in ...
For my more academic readers, you may enjoy a series of essays that is being posted at the Theopolis Institute. The conversation there is a discussion about how the Torah should inform Christian living today. It’s written by academics like Jonathan Burnside, Dru Johnson and Roy Gane, all ...
Thus, the Sunnah is significant and authoritative in its own right. There are scholars of Islam who, by analogy, have compared the Qur’an to the Jewish Torah, and the Hadīth to Judaism’s Oral Torah—that second Jewish sacred text which comments on and clarifies the first. In essence,...
Therefore, it would appear that from here we have a proof that not everything God told Moses appears in the written Torah. Instead, Moses only makes reference to it here because of the event that occurred [with the death of Nadav and Avihu], and as part of telling that story, the ...
Dvar Torah written by:Nir Shaul, presented by:Rabbi Mordechai Gershon וַיְהִ֣י אַבְרָ֔ם בֶּן־תִּשְׁעִ֥ים שָׁנָ֖ה וְתֵ֣שַׁע שָׁנִ֑ים וַ...
Many have turned their ears away from Me, but that does not mean I am not speaking. I am still speaking through the written Word and the revealed Word. There are those who now listen to the words being spoken by the enemy to the world. Do not listen to the world; heed My Word of...
The Written Torah is the Jewish Bible. The skeleton basics of the Oral Torah were written down in the Mishnah and Talmud and Rabbinical Writings, to prevent them from being forgotten. The Torah is eternal, the Torah is forever. The Laws of the Torah are binding upon us ...