The Sefer haYashar ( first edition 1552 ) is a Hebrew midrash also known as the Toledot Adam and Dibre ha-Yamim be -' Aruk.

The Hebrew title may be translated Sefer haYashar " Book of the Upright Man ," but it is known in English translation mostly as The Book of Jasher following English tradition.

: For other works of the same name see Sefer haYashar.

Among the various pseudepigraphic texts called " Book of Jasher " the 16th Century Hebrew Sefer haYashar ( midrash ) (( first edition 1552, later popular among early Mormons ) mentions the magicians.

These stories later reappear in other sources including the 16th century Sefer haYashar, which adds that Nimrod had a son named Mardon who was even more wicked.

This is reiterated in as well as later histories such as Josephus ' Jewish Antiquities i. vi. 2, which placed them explicitly in Egypt and the Sefer haYashar 10 which describes them living by the Nile.

It is sometimes called Pseudo-Jasher to distinguish it from the Sefer haYashar ( midrash ) ( Naples, 1552 ) which incorporates genuine Jewish legend.

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Sefer haYashar ( Hebrew ספר הישר " Book of the Upright One ").

* Sefer haYashar ( Biblical references ), the book mentioned in Joshua 10: 13 and 2 Samuel 1: 18.

* Sefer haYashar ( Amoraim ), a collection of sayings of the sages from the Amoraim period in Rabbi Zerahiah's Sefer Hayasher

* Sefer haYashar ( Ibn Ezra ), a commentary on the Pentateuch by the 12th century Rabbi Abraham Ibn Ezra

* Sefer haYashar, by the Kabbalist and philosopher Rabbi Abraham Abulafia

* Sefer haYashar, Jacob ben Meir's 12th century treatise on Jewish ritual and ethics

* Sefer haYashar of Zerahiah ha-Yevani, a moral treatise of the 13th century published as Ha-Yewani Zerahiah, Sefer Hayashar, The Book of the Righteous

* Sefer haYashar of Jonah ben Abraham, a 14th century work by Rabbi Jonah ben Abraham of Gerona

* Sefer haYashar ( midrash ), a 15th century book of Jewish legends covering the period from the creation of man to the first wave of the conquest of Canaan

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A Sefer Torah opened for liturgical use in a synagogue service

Manuscript Torah scrolls are still used, and still scribed, for ritual purposes ( i. e., religious services ); this is called a Sefer Torah (" Book Torah ").

The completion of the sefer Torah is a cause for great celebration, and it is a Mitzvah for every Jew to either write or have written for him a Sefer Torah.

* Three Complete Kosher Sefer Torah Scrolls for Study online ( Congregation Beth Emeth of Northern Virginia )

* Sefer Torah Scroll for Study online with Megillot and commentaries

* Computer generated Sefer Torah for Study online with translation, transliteration and chanting ( WorldORT )

Rabbi Joseph Albo, for instance, in Sefer Ha-Ikkarim counts three principles of faith, while Maimonides lists thirteen.

The materials for the history of the first period are scattered remarks in Talmudic and Midrashic literature, in the post-Talmudical treatises Masseket Sefer Torah and Masseket Soferim, and in a Masoretic chain of tradition found in ben Asher's " Diḳduḳe ha-Ṭe ' amim ", § 69 and elsewhere.

* Sefer ha-Te ' amim (" Book of Reasons "), an overview of Arabic astrology, giving explanations for the material in the previous book.

* Sefer ha-Mivharim (" Book of Elections ", also known as " Critical Days "), on optimum days for particular activities

His works were the inspiration and basis for later Jewish writers, such as Berachyah in his encyclopedic philosophical work Sefer Hahibbur ( The Book of Compilation ).

A 14th century French Jewish philosopher best known for his Sefer Milhamot Adonai (" The Book of the Wars of the Lord ") as well as for his philosophical commentaries.

Both of these views are disputed because Sefer Yetzirah is a part of esoteric Jewish mysticism, which originated much later in the 13th century, such scrolls or testaments should not have existed in the time of Muhammad for being referred to.

For example, Sefer Hachinuch explains that an individual bringing an animal sacrifice for a sin understands that he personally should have been sacrificed as punishment for the rebellion against God inherent his the sin, but God mercifully accepts the sacrifice in his or her place.

The discovery in 1910 of Sefer Zadok mentions by the Karaite sage Ya ' akov al-Qirqisani, led to a renewal for the hypothesis of the Sadducee influences on the Karaites.

In a manuscript in the British Museum, the Sefer Yetzirah is called the Hilkot Yetzirah and declared to be esoteric lore not accessible to anyone but the pious, and only to be used for Kabbalistic purposes.

In contrast to the Jewish grammarians, who assumed a special mode of articulation for each of the five groups of sounds, the Sefer Yetzirah says that no sound can be produced without the tongue, to which the other organs of speech merely lend assistance.

From these premises the Sefer Yezirah draws the important conclusion that " good and evil " have no real existence, for since everything in nature can exist only by means of its contrast, a thing may be called good or evil according to its influence over man by the natural course of the contrast.

While he dictated the Sefer HaNisraf to Reb Noson, the latter said that he did not understand it at all ; later he said, " What I do remember is that it spoke about the greatness of the mitzvah of hospitality and preparing the bed for a guest ".

*" the Book of the Dynasty of God's resisters ", perhaps from ס ֵ פ ֶ ר ב ֵּ ית ס ָ ר ְ ב ָ נ ֵ י א ֵ ל, Sefer Beit Sarevanei El (" Book of the House who strive for God ").

Although he professes great reverence for the " Sefer Yetẓirah ," from which he quotes many passages, he hastens to add that the theories of Abraham elucidated therein had been held by the patriarch before God revealed Himself to him.