Mosaic law, also referred to as the Law of Moses, is used to describe Jewish law as set forth in the Torah. According to Jewish tradition, these laws were handwritten by the Hebrew God and given to Moses to pass on to the Israelites. A total of 613 laws are included in the Mosaic l...
Composition. The Talmud holds that the Torah waswritten by Moses, with the exception of the last eight verses of Deuteronomy, describing his death and burial, being written by Joshua. Alternatively, Rashi quotes from the Talmud that, "God spoke them, and Moses wrote them with tears". Who wr...
What language did they use to make these Bibles we use? Well, it is safe to say it was NOT English. We know that the Torah may well have been initially written in a form of Hebrew that was banished during Roman oppression. There would have been an eventual struggle to try to recover...
Did Moses write the Torah? Who is the leader of Judaism? Is the Book of Genesis in the Torah? What is a Hebrew lexicon? Does the Talmud contradict the Torah? Are the Torah and the Old Testament the same? What are the religious ceremonial laws of the Old Testament? What is the birthri...
each of them in a separate one, without revealing to them why they were summoned. He entered each one’s room and said: ‘Write for me the Torah of Moses, your teacher.’ God put it in the heart of each one to translate identically as all the others did.” (Tractate Megillah 9)...
Does Halachah (Jewish Law) consider King David a Jew, or has Jewish Law changed since then? What is the Torah’s definition of a Jew? Were Abraham and Sarah Jewish? Did Abraham know the Torah? Were there converts in Biblical times? Did Ruth convert? Did Moses marry a Gentile woman?
Then there have been all the many moments that I have felt and observed deeply, deep in my body where language is born, somewhere between the slip of a skipped heartbeat and a quickening between the navel and the knees. These moments could and should have made their way back up through ...
But now that she and her little brother were beginning to understand language, I agreed to seek out a less violent (perhaps more vegan-friendly) version of the song. If we hadn’t had this existing family tradition, I would have canned the song altogether. It’s not even part of the ...
(Genesis 1:5) before the night, for this is common with the Hebrew language, namely, when someone mentions two things he should begin with the latter.* Verses 3 and 4 refer to the light, therefore verse 5 begins by calling the light “day.”For example, “I gave Jacob and Esau...
The Covenant Setting - This is what Moses said to all of Israel in the Transjordanian wilderness, the arid rift valley opposite Suph, between Paran