torah
IPA: tˈɔrʌ
Root Word: Torah
noun
- The first five books of the Hebrew Scriptures, attributed to Moses and therefore also known as the Five Books of Moses.
- The full body of written Jewish law, including the Tanakh, the Talmud, the Mishnah and the midrashic texts.
- The whole of Jewish law, both written and unwritten.
- The encompassing philosophy of Judaism.
- A specially written scroll containing the five books of Moses, such as those used in religious services.
- A book containing the five books of Moses.
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Examples of "torah" in Sentences
- “The demolition policy tramples on the torah, which is my duty as a rabbi to uphold.”
- (TOH-ruh, TAWR-uh, TOY-ruh) The law on which Judaism is founded (torah is Hebrew for law).
- Qur'an (Koran) the bible and the torah are the same. the sears catalogue and the websters dictionary. would make four.
- “I’m wondering if you meant to critique a point of view in which the torah is the infallible dictation of God’s word.”
- The "torah" was the entire means of God's communicating his mind and will unto them, as his whole counsel is revealed unto us by the gospel.
- In fact during that period the name and history of Moses were confined to the boundaries of Palestine and the torah was a book well known only in that country.
- As early as the Davidic era, the name torah was popularly used to designate this compilation, which, however, might not then have embraced all the enactments it now contains.
- The Hebrew word torah (law) lays more stress on its moral authority, as teaching the truth and guiding in the right way; the Greek nomos (law), on its constraining power as imposed and enforced by a recognized authority.
- Have they experienced any loss of religious enthusiasm or witnessed any defeat in their religious belief by declaring that His Holiness Moses was a prophet of God, that the torah was a Book of God and that all the prophets of Israel were prophets of God?
- Shlomo Sand quickly disabuses us all of that absurdity in his book "Who invented the jews" - it is now being translated into English - but he broadly has discovered that the "torah" was written and then turned into a religion which Gilad Atzmon states has not one history book written about it.
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