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The Torah ( / ˈtɔːrə, ˈtoʊrə /; Biblical Hebrew: תּוֹרָהTōrā, "Instruction", "Teaching" or "Law") is the compilation of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, namely the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. [1] The Torah is known as the Pentateuch ( / ˈpɛntətjuːk /) or the Five Books of Moses by ...
Torah Live is a educational Torah organization founded by Rabbi Dan Roth that combines interactive multimedia presentations with live lecturers to teach Jewish law, philosophy, and ethics. Torah Live presents to diverse audiences from Ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students to secular Jewish businessmen in both kiruv and standard Orthodox settings.
Daf Yomi. Daf Yomi ( Hebrew: דף יומי, Daf Yomi, "page of the day" or "daily folio ") is a daily regimen of learning the Oral Torah and its commentaries (also known as the Gemara ), in which each of the 2,711 pages of the Babylonian Talmud is covered in sequence. A daf, or blatt in Yiddish, consists of both sides of the page.
Vaychi. Jacob, Ephraim, and Manasseh (17th-century painting by Guercino) Vaychi, Vayechi or Vayhi ( וַיְחִי — Hebrew for "and he lived," the first word of the parashah) is the twelfth weekly Torah portion ( פָּרָשָׁה , parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the last in the Book of Genesis. It ...
Pekudei. Pekudei, Pekude, Pekudey, P'kude, or P'qude ( פְקוּדֵי — Hebrew for "amounts of," the second word, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah) is the 23rd weekly Torah portion ( פָּרָשָׁה , parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading. It is the 11th and last in the Book of Exodus.
The Seventeenth of Tammuz ( Hebrew: שבעה עשר בתמוז, romanized : Shivah Asar b'Tammuz) is a Jewish fast day commemorating the breach of the walls of Jerusalem before the destruction of the Second Temple. [2] [3] It falls on the 17th day of the 4th Hebrew month of Tammuz and marks the beginning of the three-week mourning period ...
A tornado touched down in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, on Saturday as a powerful storm system brought intense rain and powerful winds to the state, overturning cars, damaging homes and snapping ...
Pele Yoetz [1] is a book of Jewish Musar literature (Ethics) first published in Constantinople in 1824 by Rabbi Eliezer Papo. [2] The work is a "classical moral treatise", and compilation of essential Jewish concepts, organized with its topics following the order of the Hebrew alphabet. It is written in style that "speaks to the heart as well ...