Sentences with phrase «on torah»

Educated children with minimal religious background on Torah, Mitzvoth, Hebrew language, Jewish life cycle and Prayer etc..

It would not and should not give guidance on the Torah, the book of Revelations, the Bhagavad Gita, or the Guru Granth Sahib, and nor should it give guidance on Islamic theology.

Alternating with Ronit's swingin» first - person storytelling, an omniscient narrator leaps in and out of the characters» heads, and each chapter begins with a mini-sermon based on Torah, Mishnah, the prayerbook, or hand - me - down sayings.

Those are the core beliefs of Jesus — he even states that quite clearly when discussing them (as summations on Torah and Propherts).

I'm not terribly sure, after the exodus my knowledge on the torah gets a little fuzzy.

Ahava's response: I think many of Jesus» teachings were based on the Torah, particularly from the school of thought of Hillel.

In his commentary on the Torah, the rabbinic scholar Samson Raphael Hirsch writes: «All «religion,» all so «called «honoring God in spirit,» is worthless if the thought, the idea of God, is not strong enough to exercise its power practically in the control of our words and doings.»)

Only an hour before, in the twilight of the Sabbath, when the day's holiness is prolonged into the weekdays that follow, I had discoursed on the Torah reading of the week, Numbers 13 - 14, the story of the scouts sent to evaluate the land of Canaan, who report that the land is very good but the challenge of its inhabitants is overwhelming.

To emphasize creation's dependence on the Torah, the Talmud cites Jeremiah 33:25: «Were My covenant not by day and by night, I would not have made the very structures of heaven and earth.»

Before the introduction of «Etz Hayim,» the Conservative movement relied on the Torah commentary of Joseph Hertz, the chief rabbi of the British Commonwealth.

There is huge amount of text on Torah and Moses.

Maimonides (mentioned in the article) was a Jewish scholar who wrote excellent commentary on the Torah.

as well as «The Disappearance of God», «The Hidden Book in the Bible», «Commentary on the Torah», «The Bible with Sources Revealed», and «The Exile and Biblical Narrative.»

If you're interested in contemporary / feminist midrash, don't miss The Five Books of Miriam: A Woman's Commentary on the Torah, edited by Ellen Frankel, which offers creative contemporary womens» response to Torah.

His attacks on the Jewish Law in his epistles do not seem to have been on the Torah as such, although this is how they have often been understood, but upon those who insisted that gentile believers were required to observe all the commandments of the Law.

Can you imagine the backlash if this article would have been how a Catholic President would take orders from the Pope and have statues of saints all around the White House (shades of 1960) or a Jewish President who would take the oath on a torah while wearing a yurmulke.

If the Bible were clearer on exactly what we are and are not supposed to do, then the focus of Christianity would shift on to those instructions; much as Jewish focus zeroed in on the Torah.

In Galatians 4:21 - 31 we see Paul making points to Gentiles based on Torah passages — isn't that precious?

Their interpretations are based on the Torah (including those Leviticus passages) and they consider all thing in their interpretation — not just 2 scriptures as «evidence».

Not exact matches

Seriously - Please note that the 3 major religions are all based on the Five Books - Old Testament / Torah / Q «ran.

I suggest that Mr. Miller spend less time writing odes to his Jewish alienation and start on the lifelong task of learning Torah.

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).

After having read some books on Judaism, I decided I was not interested in pursuing what he calls «the lifelong task of learning Torah.»

Interesting that you posit this for the week where the Torah portions Sh» lach L'cha and Korah are studied (depends on who you ask).

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.

Think about that: not only would they not admit that the Torah demands that they even break the rules of work to save a man's life, they began planning immediately — that is, on the Sabbath — to destroy Jesus.

I think 2 different people could each read the bible, koran or torah or any other religious based guidebook and depending on what they have experienced in life come to 2 absolutely different opinions on whether God exists or not.

«If the Torah can be studied scientifically like any other human document,» he asks, how then can «the movement insist on the binding character of its laws?»

Without a doubt, the significance of historical study for a traditional Christian reading of the New Testament differs significantly from its influence on traditional Jewish reading of the Torah.

Torahs and Bibles and Qurans and on and on.

But chew on the following concept: Logically, your statement that the Torah is not a divine, is a belief as well.

Really don't think that is the whole concept the Torah was based on — let alone its «sequal» (the New Testament).

If the Torah is inaccurate on this camel issue, either God made a mistake (unlikely) or the carbon dating evidence is fundamentally flawed.

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.

He was circumcised, followed the law, taught from the Torah both on the hillsides and in the synagogues.

I've got the Torah, the Christian Bible, the Book of Mormon and the Quaran on my phone.

The example of those who were entrusted with the Torah and then did not take it on is like that of a donkey who carries volumes [of books].

(14) So unto this (religion of Islâm alone and this Qur» ân) then invite (people)(O Muhammad SAW), and stand firm [on Islâmic Monotheism by performing all that is ordained by Allâh (good deeds), and by abstaining from all that is forbidden by Allâh (sins and evil deeds)-RSB-, as you are commanded, and follow not their desires but say: «I believe in whatsoever Allâh has sent down of the Book [all the holy Books, — this Qur» ân and the Books of the old from the Taurât (Torah), or the Injeel (Gospel) or the Pages of Ibrâhîm (Abraham)-RSB- and I am commanded to do justice among you.

The new testament (Hebrews 8:8) * And in the Torah, the old testament (Jeremiah 31:31) What names are written on the kingdom gates of new Jerusalem coming down to earth?

From the 1930s through the 1980s Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik represented the alternative: an Orthodoxy centered on the service of God even while engaged with and concerned for the rest of humanity, deeply, almost obsessively devoted to the traditional study of Torah even while confronting and learning from the liberal arts.

And Jews should burn their copies of the OT / Torah for the 6000 year old con job pulled on them by their past and current rabbis.

«There's a lovely Hasidic story of a rabbi who always told his people that if they studied the Torah, it would put Scripture on their hearts.

As many people as possible are given the honor of an aliyah (reciting a blessing over the Torah reading); in fact, even children are called for an aliyah blessing on Simchat Torah.

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.

After the visitors had dispersed, a talmid stayed behind and led me by the hand, like a convalescent taking his first unsteady steps, back into the world where other people had claims on me, and back into the world of Talmud Torah.

The Jewish worshiper delights in Torah and reflects on it continually.

Judaism, by contrast, with its uncompromising insistence on ritual and its requirement that all Jews engage in Torah study at whatever level they are capable of, involves the human being in all his complexity.

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.

From the 1930s through the 1980s Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik represented the alternative: an Orthodoxy centered on the service of God even while engaged with and concerned for the rest of humanity, deeply devoted to the traditional study of Torah even while confronting and learning from the liberal arts.

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».