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Torah
[ toh-ruh, tawr-uh; Sephardic Hebrew toh-rah; Ashkenazic Hebrew toh-ruh, toi-ruh ]
noun
- Also the Torah. the five books containing the Law as revealed to Moses, constituting the first of the three divisions of Jewish Scripture: Compare Pentateuch ( def ).Tanakh.
In the desert of life filled with obstacles and challenges, the light of Torah helps lead the way.
- a parchment scroll on which the five books of the Law are written, used in synagogue services.
- Also the Torah.
- the entire body of Jewish Scripture, including all three divisions; Tanakh.
- the entire body of Jewish religious literature, law, and teaching as contained chiefly in the Tanakh and the Talmud.
- law or instruction.
Torah
/ tɔˈra; ˈtəʊrə /
noun
- the Pentateuch
- the scroll on which this is written, used in synagogue services
- the whole body of traditional Jewish teaching, including the Oral Law
- modifier promoting or according with traditional Jewish Law
Torah
- The law on which Judaism is founded ( torah is Hebrew for “law”). This law is contained in the first five books of the Bible (see also Bible ) ( Genesis , Exodus , Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy). Torah can also refer to the entire body of Jewish law and wisdom, including what is contained in oral tradition.
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Example Sentences
He gave his soul for the sake of the people of Israel, The Torah, and the Land.
All of their songs, they say, are inspired by Torah and Hasidic philosophy, even the ones that sound a bit salacious.
He added, “This is the whole of the Torah, and the rest is commentary; go learn it.”
Someone who is truly [studying Torah] day and night should continue to learn.
Every week, on the Sabbath, Jews around the world read a portion of the Torah.
Reason alone cannot decide this question; it needs the guidance of the Torah, which is divine.
But the philosophers are Greeks, descended from Japheth, who did not inherit either wisdom or Torah.
According to the Torah God created the world just as it is, with its animals and plants already formed.
He developed his views, he tells us, because he believes that they are in agreement with the words of the Torah.
But it is unlikely that any such prophet will come, for the Torah says that there never was or will be any prophet like Moses.
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