Torah in a sentence

In terms of why Torah is called a yoke, while learning Torah and living a life following Torah and is often experienced as pleasurable, there is also an element of challenge and difficulty.

The Oral Torah seeAlso Rabbinic tradition holds that Moses learned the whole Torah while he lived on Mount Sinai for 40 days and nights and both the oral and the written Torah were transmitted in parallel with each other.

Bennett appeared on Fox News to issue an update on the situation in Israel after Hamas fired thousands of rockets and also sent dozens of fighters into Simchat Torah, a Jewish holiday celebrating the annual cycle of the Torah scroll reading.

Melissa Friedensohn, the daughter of Rhonda and David Duchin and wife of Lance, was raised at congregations Anshai Torah, Beth Torah and Temple Emanu-El.

Seeking to find someone who could smuggle the child out without detection, they contacted Rabbi Abraham Eliyahu Maizes of the anti-Zionist Yeshiva Torah Vyirah (ironically, “Torah and Fear of G-d”).

The Oral Torah, as explained in the Midrash, isn’t just another layer of Torah or an increment in its greatness.

The Shaz party leader went so far as to say that Torah and devout believers would perform miracles through their Torah study campaign.

We honor Torah, suggest the commentaries, by learning Torah and by performing the commandments, as well as by showing proper respect for both holy books as well as sages.

And therefore, whether it is the same as Moses’s Torah or as Maimonides’s Torah makes not one iota of difference.

But this story is part of the Torah ( 33b), and the word “Torah” derives from the word “” – teaching.

Each of the Rabbis inscribed a letter in the Torah together with Sofer Rabbi Moshe Klein and gave a bracha for the efforts of the organizers of the Torah.

Rav Asher Weiss, of Machon Minchas Osher L’Torah V’Horaah, declared that even though yeshiva learning is the “oxygen of the Jewish nation,” opening Torah study halls is dangerous and absolutely forbidden.

We find our letter, we see ourselves in Torah, we point and proclaim, וזאת התורה, this Torah is for me, I can learn it, I have a portion in it, it speaks to me.

Jemi Kostiner Mansfield is Congregation Shaarie Torah’s executive director effective March 1. Shaarie Torah’s board of directors selected Jemi following a national search that attracted a pool of some 30 talented applicants.

The organization’s goal is to help the members of the Torah community stay connected to their fundamental Hashkafa and Torah values when encountering the questions and scenarios of a new environment.

When we learn and heed the commands of the Torah we connect to Hashem by working to understand what He has revealed to us in the Torah.

He will present divrei Torah at meetings and conduct special Torah study sessions to help staff and fundraisers become aware of the spiritual nature of their work.

More than 70 percent of Anshai Torah’s membership, as well as members of the community at large, participated in the Torah’s writing.

The Torah demands that we transfer the Arabs (and indeed all hostile gentiles who do not meet Torah’s criteria) out of the country.

According to Jewish law, a sefer Torah (plural: Sifrei Torah) is a copy of the formal Hebrew text handwritten on gevil or qlaf (forms of parchment ) by using a quill (or other permitted writing utensil) dipped in ink.