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(TOH-ruh, TAWR-uh, TOY-ruh) The law on which Judaism is founded (torah is Hebrew for law).
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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.
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“I’m wondering if you meant to critique a point of view in which the torah is the infallible dictation of God’s word.”
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“The demolition policy tramples on the torah, which is my duty as a rabbi to uphold.”
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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.
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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.
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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?
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Qur'an (Koran) the bible and the torah are the same. the sears catalogue and the websters dictionary. would make four.
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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.
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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.
sgoldstein commented on the word torah
Definition: (Websters Dictionary):
To•rah
noun \ˈtȯr-ə, ˈtȯi-rə\
Definition of TORAH
1: the body of wisdom and law contained in Jewish Scripture and other sacred literature and oral TRADITION
2: the five books of Moses constituting the Pentateuch
3: a leather or parchment scroll of the Pentateuch used in a synagogue for liturgical purposes
December 24, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word torah
See Torah.
December 24, 2011