Sentences with phrase «torah means»

To practice Torah means not only ethical and responsible living hut also reflective study and pious devotion and worship.

Torah means, by its etymology, something like «teaching» or «instruction».

For the actuality of the faith of Biblical and post-Biblical Judaism and also for the Jesus of the Sermon on the Mount, fulfillment of the Torah means to extend the hearing of the Word to the whole dimension of human existence.

But why would he know — he can not comprehend the accumalation of the texts and history after them on the debate of Torahnic law... which Jesus himself participated in (this banter back n forth on what the Torah means in certain sections — or interpretation of how the law is used in daily life).

While many Jewish teachers used tradition and consensus to determine what the Torah meant and how to live it, Jesus simply declared on His own authority what it meant and how to apply it.

Not exact matches

Atlanta (CNN)-- According to Jewish tradition, a boy becomes a man at 13, when he's called before his community to read from the Torah and become a bar mitzvah, meaning «son of the commandments.»

No one talks about displaying the Torah or the Koran, but the churcher kooks think «god» only means their god.

I» leaving my job because I need more time to complete a book meant to assist Muslim readers in understanding the Torah!!

TORAH TORAH TORAH > YHWH YHWH YHWH < HAROT HAROT HAROT you get the picture This CAN NOT be done by any man and still retain the meaning of scripture / or the text in which it is written.

I mean we are told to as well as respect the Qur «an, also to respect the Bible, the Torah and all other holy books.

But you specifically referred to the Latin Bible and its publication into non-latin text... which means that you are talking about the Bible as in the Christian Bible... NOT the Torah or the Tanakh.

As for me, I guess I'm deluded, just as King David before me, I love Torah and find great meaning in living a life of mitzvot connected to God and my community.

What needs to be considered here is Paul is talking to a Gentile community without the scriptures at all — meaning the Torah and Prophets.

How can you even claim the Torah was not meant to be followed?

Jesus is painted as an atonement by Paul — however — what that atonement actually means is truly up for deeper discussion since in the Torah that sacrifice (of the once a year for the community) was for all people there — for their sins committed in ignorance (or by accident).

My comments weren't meant to prove the divinity of the Torah (Bible), merely to respond to the author who makes utterly erroneous claims on what it says.

No one in the Bible, Torah, or the Qur «an, no one, that has to mean something (not Adam, Eve, Moses, Abraham, Noah, not one person) what does that tell you?

We are likewise learning more about first century religion in Palestine — as, for example, about the place of synagogue, Torah, temple and sacrifice; the meaning of the terms «Pharisee,» «Essene,» «Sadducee,» «apocalyptist»; the nature of Judaism and of rabbinic teaching.

Any time we delve deep into the meanings of Torah, we get a taste of paradise!)

We also frequently speak in terms of finding four levels of meaning in Torah: the simple / surface meaning, the hinted - at or allegorical meaning, the midrashic meaning, and the deepest secrets of the text at its root.

According to the Torah, Jews must observe 613 rules, but this does not mean that non-Jews must not have any rules, because in reality they too have them, arranged under seven fundamental headings, called the [precepts of Noah or] Noahtic precepts, natural law.

Reading receptively and trustingly does not mean accepting everything in the text at face value, as Paul's own critical sifting of the Torah demonstrates.

All those within Torah Musa, Zabor Dawoud, Angeel Issa out of which brewed out of it the soul thing of pure faith that God was not not begotten, God is Single and not Plural, God has no Mistress, God has No Begotten Son, God may Chose Any as Sons from his creations with out need to beget sons through the means he created for mankind to increase population... All Prophets and Messengers spoke the Words of God as he put his words to their mouths... they were the words of God... Now please read with me the verses even if for general informations only;

Hold on a sec, didn't Jesus himself profess that Religion is in the Torah which essentially means your religion is Judaism, in addition Jesus never preached any religion at all (unless its well hidden).

Even if you think the Bible, Koran, Torah, etc. are a bunch of bunk that does not necessarily mean there is not a creator that set this universe in motion.

In the Torah scroll, though, the word is found and it is pronounced Adonai, which means «my master.»

When I speak of preaching from the law, I mean preaching that takes as its source the texts of Torah, but I also want to include all biblical texts that speak in the imperative voice, texts that teach what we are to do and what we are not to do.

I've talked with Jews about this matter, and they said the stories in the Torah (Adam and Eve, Noah's Ark, etc.) aren't meant to be taken as literal, historical facts, but as allegories and moral tales.

Leibowitz's key claim, Warren Harvey indicates, is that «in Judaism, questions of ethics, politics, science, or history have no value whatsoever except insofar as they might be means to the service of God in accordance with the Torah and the commandments, that is, in accordance with the Halakhah.»

The means by which Jesus implicitly made His claims to be God incarnate was through His actions of replacing the Temple and fulfilling the Torah.

It is this background, the mighty acts of God, that gives cogency to the commandments of the Torah, for these acts of God established what is described as the «covenant,» by which is meant a special relation between this particular people and the God who had delivered them.

It is extremely necessary to point out that the crazies that made this outrageous comparison and those that spit on 8 - year - old girls are not ultra-orthodox Jews, but lunatics that do not understand what it means to be a Jew adherent to the Torah laws pertaining observance and social conduct.

This is why I say you have to learn the Torah only from an Orthodox rabbi, because he has learned the text in the original Hebrew and knows the meanings of all the words, including the names of G - d used therein.

Christianity has no more lived up to the meaning of the cross than Judaism has lived up to the meaning of the Torah, but the two are not identical.

There are many commentaries out there that were written after Ezra's reading of the Torah to the returning Exiles that have fought with the texts, trying to determine the meaning of the words, the glorification of violence and the various laws.

This lack of closure means that the Torah is shaped by the crisis of the exile.

Just because we were brought up to believe the Bible, Torah or Koran is «the word of God» does not mean any of these books actually really are «the word of God.»

Finally, and equally appropriately, Exodus preserves the record of the physical structures and objects by which the meaning of the event was kept alive and contemporaneous, and through which the torah was preserved and expanded.

Elsewhere the same concept is affirmed in Israel's larger torah in a single remarkable sentence capable of sustaining four differing translations, which are nevertheless unified in meaning:

Covenant meant first of all banding together under God's published orders, the Torah.

Secondly, communication in the early community of the people of God took the form of the Covenant Code and the Torah (meaning «wisdom and guide»), both of which originated from the Exodus.

expressing the larger torah of Israel, must a broader meaning.

The completed canon (the word means «rule» by which the content and limits of holy scripture are determined) affirms that all covenant law, all torah, is of Yahweh, and, therefore, essentially of Sinai - Mosaic origin.

Criticism may smile indulgently at the palpable deception in the claim that this was given to Moses at Sinai along with the Torah, but if we would read the meaning of figurative language, it is apparent that this was but an expression of the sense of a pervasive natural law: the religious impulse and revelation with which the name of Moses was associated was too great to embody itself in written form — not even the Torah was adequate; but it reposed ultimately in the divine impress upon the heart of man.

A non-Jew accidentally discovers the meaning and wisdom of Torah.

When he attends religious functions, he hears gripes from his fellow Hasidim that he drinks too much wine, dances too freely, and offers laymen's interpretations of the Torah that are well - meaning but unscholarly.

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