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    Shavuot (redirect from Feast of the Torah)
    for the giving of the Torah. On Passover, the people of Israel were freed from their enslavement to Pharaoh; on Shavuot, they were given the Torah and...
    51 KB (5,526 words) - 12:52, 23 August 2024
  • Torah reading (Hebrew: קריאת התורה, K'riat haTorah, "Reading [of] the Torah"; Ashkenazic pronunciation: Kriyas haTorah) is a Jewish religious tradition...
    43 KB (5,657 words) - 15:53, 11 September 2024
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    The Torah (/ˈtɔːrə/ or /ˈtoʊrə/; Biblical Hebrew: תּוֹרָה Tōrā, "Instruction", "Teaching" or "Law") is the compilation of the first five books of the...
    73 KB (8,851 words) - 17:19, 11 October 2024
  • "ascent" or "going up") is the calling of a member of a Jewish congregation up to the bimah for a segment of the formal Torah reading. A person receiving...
    11 KB (1,492 words) - 08:44, 7 October 2023
  • from the word 'gift' and literally means "giving". It is part of the title of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot that is also known as "Z'man Mattan Torah" meaning...
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    Simchat Torah (Hebrew: שִׂמְחַת תּוֹרָה, lit. 'Torah celebration' Ashkenazi: Simchas Torah), also spelled Simhat Torah, is a Jewish holiday that celebrates...
    19 KB (2,483 words) - 23:23, 11 October 2024
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    Egypt was only the beginning of a process that climaxed with the spiritual freedom they gained at the giving of the Torah on Shavuot. The Sefer HaChinuch...
    27 KB (3,086 words) - 02:04, 6 October 2024
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    changed with the giving of the Torah is that now, it is the duty of the Jewish people to bring the rest of the world to fulfill the Seven Laws of Noah. According...
    86 KB (9,176 words) - 19:43, 10 October 2024
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    since the giving of the Torah at Sinai – almost two thousand years before Christianity. The trinity suggests a three part deity: The Father, the Son and...
    129 KB (14,724 words) - 13:50, 11 October 2024
  • HaTorah (Hebrew: ברכות התורה, The blessings of the Torah) are blessings in Jewish law concerning the giving of the Torah from God to Israel and to the study...
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    the ladder alludes to the giving of the Torah as another connection between heaven and earth. In this interpretation, it is also significant that the...
    16 KB (1,922 words) - 04:44, 24 September 2024
  • as the judgment day of trees in the Talmud. Another is the Midrash that Mount Sinai blossomed with flowers in anticipation of the giving of the Torah on...
    6 KB (643 words) - 16:31, 26 April 2024
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    Judaism (redirect from Beliefs of jews)
    texts is the Torah, the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, a collection of ancient Hebrew scriptures. The Tanakh, known in English as the Hebrew Bible...
    232 KB (25,927 words) - 20:00, 10 October 2024
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    Kabbalah (redirect from History of Kabbalah)
    potential of evil. The creation of Adam would have redeemed existence, but his sin caused new shevirah of Divine vitality, requiring the Giving of the Torah to...
    119 KB (14,608 words) - 14:02, 11 October 2024
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    Torah study is the study of the Torah, Hebrew Bible, Talmud, responsa, rabbinic literature, and similar works, all of which are Judaism's religious texts...
    41 KB (5,305 words) - 14:18, 25 July 2024
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    Shuckling (redirect from Swaying the body)
    to recall the giving of the Torah in which the people trembled, and to sway during prayer to recall Psalms 35:10 which speaks of "all of one's bones" praising...
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    the study is the preparation for the day of the Giving of the Torah. The source of the custom is the Zohar book, which was widely distributed in the thirteenth...
    2 KB (335 words) - 02:24, 19 May 2024
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    Tammuz (Hebrew month) (category Months of the Hebrew calendar)
    by the Jewish people, 40 days after the giving of the Torah at Har Sinai. In response, Moses smashed the first Tablets. This is the first of the five...
    6 KB (666 words) - 12:42, 15 July 2024
  • dismissing the assumptions of the "wise". Noteworthy also is the fact that the "mighty acts of God" (the Exodus, the giving of the Torah at Sinai, the Covenant...
    24 KB (2,813 words) - 02:31, 5 September 2024
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    Mich.: Zondervan. 2005. ISBN 978-0-310-92605-4. "Shavuot - The Holiday of the Giving of the Torah - Chabad.org". chabad.org. Longenecker, Richard N. (2017)...
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