• A Torah database (מאגר תורני or מאגר יהדות) is a collection of classic Jewish texts in electronic form, the kinds of texts which, especially in Israel...
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    lacked information as to the provenance of their digital texts. Common Torah database applications such as the Bar-Ilan Responsa Project and Hebrew text editing...
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    Simchat Torah (שִׂמְחַת תּוֹרָה‎, lit., "Torah celebration", Ashkenazi: Simchas Torah), also spelled Simhat Torah, is a Jewish holiday that celebrates...
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    A Torah scroll (Hebrew: סֵפֶר תּוֹרָה, Sefer Torah, lit. "Book of Torah"; plural: סִפְרֵי תוֹרָה Sifrei Torah) is a handwritten copy of the Torah, meaning...
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    the supplemental Oral Torah is represented by later texts, such as the Midrash and the Talmud. The Hebrew-language word torah can mean "teaching", "law"...
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    Library Mechon Mamre Sages of Ashkenaz Database Halacha Brura and Birur Halacha Institute The Electronic Torah Warehouse hebrewbooks.org seforimonline...
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    A Torah ark (also known as the hekhal, Hebrew: היכל, or aron qodesh, אֲרוֹן קׄדֶש) is an ornamental chamber in the synagogue that houses the Torah scrolls...
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  • compact disc as part of the searchable Bar Ilan Responsa Project. (See Torah database.) Encyclopedia Talmudica is an English translation, commenced 1969....
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    Shavuot (redirect from Feast of the Torah)
    Counting of the Omer. Its date is directly linked to that of Passover; the Torah mandates the seven-week Counting of the Omer, beginning on the second day...
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  • Degel HaTorah (Hebrew: דגל התורה, lit. 'Banner of the Torah') is an Ashkenazi Haredi political party in Israel. For much of its existence, it has been...
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  • even considered by some polytheistic. According to Judaic beliefs, the Torah rules out a trinitarian God in Deuteronomy (6:4): "Hear Israel, the LORD...
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    "One Torah for All") teaches that anyone who is a part of Israel is obligated to observe the Covenant and its provisions as outlined in the Torah. Dan...
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  • 613 commandments (redirect from Torah Laws)
    According to Jewish tradition, the Torah contains 613 commandments (Hebrew: תרי״ג מצוות, romanized: taryág mitsvót). This tradition is first recorded...
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    Torah Or/Likutei Torah is a compilation of Chassidic treatises, maamarim, by the first Chabad Rebbe, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi. The treatises are classic...
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  • body of Jewish religious laws that are derived from the Written and Oral Torah. Halakha is based on biblical commandments (mitzvot), subsequent Talmudic...
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    Translated by Moshe Lichtman. Eim Habanim Semeichah on HebrewBooks.org Torah database Chaburat Eim Habanim Semeichah—On-line study of Eim Habanim Semeichah...
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  • Pharisees (category Oral Torah)
    different interpretations of the Torah and how to apply it to current Jewish life, with Sadducees recognizing only the Written Torah and rejecting Prophets, Writings...
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    Haftara (redirect from Half torah)
    the Torah reading on each Sabbath and on Jewish festivals and fast days. Typically, the haftara is thematically linked to the parashah (weekly Torah portion)...
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  • which practices of each holiday are to apply. The celebration of Simchat Torah is the most distinctive feature of the holiday, but it is a later rabbinical...
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    as the age of majority with respect to following the commandments of the Torah, including: "Why is the evil inclination personified as the great king (Ecclesiastes...
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    Sefer Torah is read during the Torah reading which is part of the Shabbat morning services, with a longer reading than during the week. The Torah is read...
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    Revelation (redirect from Mattan Torah)
    believes that in addition to the written Torah, God also revealed to Moses a set of oral teachings, called the Oral Torah. In addition to this revealed law,...
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    Aish formerly known as Aish HaTorah (Hebrew: אש התורה, lit. "Fire of the Torah"), is a Jewish educational organization. The focus of Aish is to spread...
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  • during the Torah service, when the Torah is out of the ark. Ashkenazi Jews say Acheinu on Mondays and Thursdays, after the reading of the Torah. Mi Sheberach...
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    Jewish prayer book. Prayer, as a "service of the heart," is in principle a Torah-based commandment. It is mandatory for Jewish women and men. However, the...
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    Moses announced to the people that they had been forgiven; as a result the Torah fixed this date as a permanent holiday of forgiveness. The new covenant...
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    writing composed after (or otherwise outside of) the five books of the Torah. After the Talmud is written, it refers to the Oral Law (both in the sense...
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    running through Sukkot which end on Shemini Atzeret in Israel and Simchat Torah everywhere else. Rosh Hashanah is a two-day observance and celebration that...
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    Yeshiva Kesser Torah Rabbinical College of Queens (abbreviated as YKT; Hebrew: ישיבה כתר תורה) is an Orthodox Jewish yeshiva located at 72-11 Vleigh Place...
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  • thought of Reb Simhah Bunim. Urim Publications. ISBN 9789655240030. OCLC 190789076. Kosov, Baruch ben Avraham (1912). Tiferes haYehudi. Torah Database....
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