• The concept of s» yag l'Torah, making «a fence for the Torah» — that is, establishing practices that keep us from violating
Torah teachings even unwittingly or under duress — can be taken as a basis for banning nuclear weapons, the dangers of which threaten the very fabric of creation.
If God is good (and
the Torah taught us that He is), then it is good to labor diligently to deepen our knowledge of His entire created world, and all things in it.
But in Jeremiah 3, in a shocking reversal given in a pathos - filled poem, God's own voice indicates a readiness to violate
that Torah teaching for the sake of restored marriage to Israel.
They will not commit the suicide of the Jewish soul by succumbing to the despair that follows when the Holocaust becomes our central point of reference rather than something
the Torah teaches that God Himself will conquer, when he «will destroy death forever, and will wipe away tears from every face» (Isaiah 25:8).
Not exact matches
Teaching was a passion for Wende Weinberg, wife of Rabbi Stefan Weinberg, of Congregation Anshai
Torah in West Plano.
What fishon fails to realize is the
teachings of the NT (synoptics for sure) are based on
teachings of the
Torah (5 books of the law)... he does not understand law and the debating of law for the formation of understanding the idea better.
Study the Mormon faith, study Orthodox and Catholic
teachings, look for the root the Abrahmic faiths in the
Torah, and you will learn how differing beliefs systems yet share a universal, central truth - the knowledge of a benevolent and loving God.
Muslims therefore accept the
teachings of both the Jewish
Torah and the Christian Gospels.
Be it from the Koran, King James Bible, The
Torah, The buddest
Teachings of spirituality and humility etc..
Muslims read the bible and the
torah, and are
taught to respect all people of the books (bible,
torah).
The Qur «an never asks a Christian or Jew to accept it because their own scripture has become corrupt, rather they are asked to accept the Qur «an because the Qur «an claims, 1 / to confirm the
teaching of the Bible, 2 / that Muhammad is foretold in the
Torah and Gospel, 3 / the Qur «anic
teaching makes clear what the Jews and Christians could not understand properly from their own scriptures.
Torah, I'll ignore that idiot Jones, he's as Christian as Genghis Khan, in his observation of faith and
teachings.
Paul is not wasting his breath — he is trying to help a Gentile community understand the
teachings of the
Torah and Prophets — and the goodness that can come from them — and also the immoral things that can lead you away from God (the kingdom — here and now — then and there).
The message heard through the entire Bible; as the prophets repeatedly admonished the people of Israel and as Jesus preached and
taught the Disciples and crowds, what God wants is not the enforcement of the letter of the
Torah.
He was circumcised, followed the law,
taught from the
Torah both on the hillsides and in the synagogues.
The
torah,
teachings, laws are ways to live and His commands to us so that we will be blessed.
Yeshua was the living
Torah so the way he
taught was the way it was written not the Greek miss translation
The pattern of his ministry with its emphasis on
teaching and the reinterpretation of the oral
Torah and on healing the sick is that of an authentic rabbi.
And He will
teach him [Jesus] the Scripture and wisdom, and the
Torah and the Gospel.
As a Jew, Jesus would have been brought up to pray and praise God and to obey God's
teaching or
Torah.
For Hasidim, every waking act is defined by the laws of the
Torah; they depend on the
teachings of rabbis to guide them in all parts of their day.
Anyone who has even studied the Bible in a cursory manner can see that Christ came to «fulfill, not abolish» (Mt. 5:17), and Christ
taught about a variety of things his followers should do; otherwise, the Gospels would have simply read «The
Torah is obsolete; go now, and live as you please.»
As God spoke with Moses face to face, so Jesus, the prophet foretold in Deut 18:18, is with his Father on the Mountain in prayer; and
teaching from the mountain is the «new
Torah».
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.
You ascended to the firmament, O prophet Moses; you captured captives, you
taught the words of
Torah, you gave gifts to the sons of men, and even the stubborn who are converted turn in repentance, [and] the glorious presence of the Lord God abides upon them.
I see
Torah as a mirror for our own spiritual development, a roadmap for our spiritual journey, a repository of our tradition's wisdom
teachings.
Indeed, it is You who is Knower of the unseen» (109)[The Day] when Allah will say, «O Jesus, Son of Mary, remember My favor upon you and upon your mother when I supported you with the Pure Spirit and you spoke to the people in the cradle and in maturity; and [remember] when I
taught you writing and wisdom and the
Torah and the Gospel; and when you designed from clay [what was] like the form of a bird with My permission, then you breathed into it, and it became a bird with My permission; and you healed the blind and the leper with My permission; and when you brought forth the dead with My permission; and when I restrained the Children of Israel from [killing] you when you came to them with clear proofs and those who disbelieved among them said, «This is not but obvious magic.»
Even before the gospels were written, Paul established a breakaway sect that dismissed the importance of the
Torah and made no mention of the
teachings of Jesus, focusing rather on the Christ as Paul understood the concept following his personal revelation.
Remember My favour unto thee and unto thy mother; how I strengthened thee with the holy Spirit, so that thou spakest unto mankind in the cradle as in maturity; and how I
taught thee the Scripture and Wisdom and the
Torah and the Gospel; and how thou didst shape of clay as it were the likeness of a bird by My permission, and didst blow upon it and it was a bird by My permission, and thou didst heal him who was born blind and the leper by My permission; and how thou didst raise the dead by My permission; and how I restrained the Children of Israel from (harming) thee when thou camest unto them with clear proofs, and those of them who disbelieved exclaimed: This is naught else than evident magic; (110) And when I inspired the disciples, (saying): Believe in Me and in My messenger, they said: We believe.
This is evident from guidelines given to Adam and Eve,
Torah given to Israel, Jesus
teachings to us all.
They also agree in the belief that God has given man the
Torah as instruction to
teach him to direct his heart to Him.
Although the Five Books of Moses, containing the codes of Hebrew Law, are specifically called the
Torah, the prophets often speak of their own
teaching (delivered not as their own, but as the «word of the Lord») as
Torah, though it never had statutory force.
Torah means, by its etymology, something like «
teaching» or «instruction».
This event occurred around 135 C.E., when the imperial Roman authorities in Palestine had outlawed the rabbis» public
teaching of
Torah.
Without the public
teaching and practice of
Torah, not only have the Jews lost their reason for existing but the whole world has lost its reason for existence.
He
teaches and upholds
Torah perfectly.
3:48 — And He (Allah) will
teach him [«Iesa (Jesus)-RSB- the Book and Al - Hikmah (i.e. the Sunnah, the faultless speech of the Prophets, wisdom, etc.), (and) the Taurat (
Torah) and the Injeel (Gospel).
If you just read the
Torah, without knowing the grace of God that Jesus
taught, the letter will kill you, because no one can do it.
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.
his «
teachings» were based on jewish laws and the
torah.
Rabbi Eliezer wrote in the first century that, «Rather should the words of the
Torah be burned than entrusted to a woman... Whoever
teaches his daughter the
Torah is like one who
teaches her obscenity.»
Jesus unabashedly defies this tradition by
teaching the
Torah to women, perhaps most notably Mary of Bethany.
your own words give you up that you have no learning and if you have studied the
Torah or Christianity it was a waste of time and a serious affair
teaching others when you yourself do nt understand.
Tradition has superseded the
Torah -
teaching and has become an independent authority.
Without falling into that old rut of opposing the legalistic and the prophetic, we may discover in the very
teaching of the
Torah an increasing pulsation that turn by turn sets out the Law in terms of endlessly multiplying prescriptions and then draws it together, in the strong sense of the word, by summing it up in one set of commandments which only retain its being directed towards holiness.
It
teaches that man does not need a saviour: that he can justify himself before God by obeying the Law of the
Torah.
The global ethic is no substitute for the
Torah, the Gospels, the Qur» an, the Bhagavad Gita, the Discourses of the Buddha or the
Teachings of Confucius and other scriptures.
We are, rather, asking together how well Barth really understood
Torah as good news to Israel (quite well, thank you), and how well he understood the
teaching of the rabbis that
Torah - living by the Jewish people was living by grace (quite poorly, I'm afraid), and whether the correction of his mistake could produce a better theology for Christian self - understanding and perhaps even something helpful for Jewish theology.
Typically, when Jewish Rabbis
taught the
Torah, they
taught it straight through (cf. Neh 8:8), and this is probably how Jesus
taught (cf. Luke 4:16 - 21; 4:31; 6:6; 13:10).
His job is to focus on the task at hand, whether exploring «Abortion in Halakhic Literature,» «The Sanctity of the Liberated Territories,» «
Teaching Torah to Non-Jews,» «Animal Experimentation,» or «Mental Incompetence and Its Implications in Jewish Law» — sample titles from the three volumes of Contemporary Halakhic Problems.