) Modern Scholarship in the Study of Torah: Contributions and Limitations Jason Aronson, Inc.

* " Sense and Sensibilities: Women and Torah Study ", Bryna Levy, Jewish Action, Winter 1998, 59 ( 2 ).

* 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 )

Some have a separate room for Torah study, called the beit midrash ( Sfard ) " beis midrash ( Ashkenaz )— (" House of Study ").

Torah study is counted amongst the 613 mitzvot (" commandments "), finding its source in the verse ( Deuteronomy 6: 7 ): " And you shall teach it to your children ," upon which the Talmud comments that " Study is necessary in order to teach.

* The importance of Torah Study

He edited " Modern Scholarship in the Study of Torah: Contributions and Limitations " ( ISBN 1-56821-450-2 ), “ Jewish Perspectives on the Experience of Suffering ” as well as several other works.

* Levi, Yehuda " Torah Study ", Philipp Feldheim Inc, ( 1990 ) ISBN 0-87306-555-7 ( see especially Parts 1 & 7 )

* Scripture & Torah Study Resources

* 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 ( WordORT )

** The Wisconsin Institute for Torah Study, Milwaukee

Rabbi Nissim Zeev began his Torah activities in his youth when in 1968 he established Torah youth clubs named " Irgun Yeladim Lomdei Torah " ( Eilat ) ( Association of Children Who Study Torah ) in memory of the IDF soldiers who perished in the Eilat submarine.

The requirement for close derivation of the conceptual structures underlying various Jewish laws, as a regular part of one's Torah study, is described by Maimonides ( Yad HaChazakah, Sefer Madda, Laws of Torah Study, 1: 11 ) as follows:

Study of Torah is seen by Rabbinic Judaism as the pre-eminent spiritual activity, as it leads to all other mitzvot ( Jewish observances ).

Rachel steered me along toward a school for young boys beginning to study the Torah.

He spent ten months lecturing on Jewish philosophy and Torah at Warsaw's Institute for Jewish Studies.

Sometimes in series with this rule an exception is made for religious materials such as the Bible, Torah or Qur ' an.

The Jewish religion still retains the Torah scroll, at least for ceremonial use.

The Torah ( Jewish Law ), also known as the Pentateuch ( the first five books of the Christian Old Testament ), lays down the death penalty for murder, kidnapping, magic, violation of the Sabbath, blasphemy, and a wide range of sexual crimes, although evidence suggests that actual executions were rare.

The minimum requirements seem to have been a meeting room with adequate seating, a case for the Torah scroll, and a raised platform for the reader.

There are no female Rabbis among the British Masorti, for example, and some Masorti congegations maintain non-egalitarian practices with regard to gender, such as the mechitza and the prohibition of women reading from the Torah, while nearly all American congregations are fully egalitarian and the American Rabbinical schools ordain women as Rabbis.

The Oral Torah is the primary guide for Jews to abide by these terms, as expressed in tractate Gittin 60b, " the Holy One, Blessed be He, did not make His covenant with Israel except by virtue of the Oral Law " to help them learn how to live a holy life, and to bring holiness, peace and love into the world and into every part of life, so that life may be elevated to a high level of kedushah, originally through study and practice of the Torah, and since the destruction of the Second Temple, through prayer as expressed in tractate Sotah 49a " Since the destruction of the Temple, every day is more cursed than the preceding one ; and the existence of the world is assured only by the kedusha ... and the words spoken after the study of Torah.

as a replacement for the study of Torah, which is a daily obligation for a Jew, and sanctifies God in itself.

Whereas the written Torah has a fixed form, the Oral Torah is a living tradition that includes not only specific supplements to the written Torah ( for instance, what is the proper manner of shechita and what is meant by " Frontlets " in the Shema ), but also procedures for understanding and talking about the written Torah ( thus, the Oral Torah revealed at Sinai includes debates among rabbis who lived long after Moses ).

Some Christians agree that Jews who accept Jesus should still observe all of Torah, see for example Dual-covenant theology, based on warnings by Jesus to Jews not to use him as an excuse to disregard it, and they support efforts of those such as Messianic Jews ( Messianic Judaism is considered by most Christians and Jews to be a form of Christianity ) to do that, but some Protestant forms of Christianity oppose all observance to the Mosaic law, even by Jews, which Luther criticised as Antinomianism, see Antinomianism # Antinomian Controversies in Lutheranism and Luther # Anti-Antinomianism for details.

Women participate in the service and bimah activities but are not called up to read from the Torah.

Many have spoken out for the right of Jewish women to pray aloud and read from the Torah at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, the Women of the Wall group.

* Elissa Strauss, Women Who Write Torah, A New Generation of Female Scribes Makes History.

* The Moon's Lost Light: A Torah Perspective on Women from the Fall of Eve to the Full Redemption, Devorah Heshelis, Targum Press, 2006.

The origins of European engagement in marriage practice is found in the Jewish law ( Torah ), first exemplified by Abraham, and outlined in the last Talmudic tractate of the Nashim ( Women ) order, where marriage consists of two separate acts, called erusin ( or kiddushin, meaning sanctification

Yeshiva University ’ s undergraduate schools — Yeshiva College, Stern College for Women, and Syms School of Business " offer a unique dual curriculum inspired by Modern-Centrist-Orthodox Judaism's hashkafa ( philosophy ) of Torah Umadda (" Torah and secular knowledge ") combining the finest, contemporary academic education with the timeless teachings of Torah .”

Women do not study Torah, but gain merit for facilitating Torah study for the men.

In March 2012, the Annual Convention of the Central Conference of American Rabbis celebrated the 40th anniversary of women's ordination by calling Priesand to the Torah at the Monday morning prayer service ; through May 2012, the Union for Reform Judaism was running a blog to celebrate “ Forty Years of Women ” in honor of the anniversary ; and Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion honored her as special guest at the June 2, 2012 ordination ceremony at Plum Street Temple, during which 13 candidates were ordained – eight of them women.

Rabbi Trugman explains that it is through oral tradition that the meanings of the Torah, its commandments and stories, are known and understood.

An English translation of all three volumes, with notes, essays and appendices, was translated and edited by Rabbi Gordon Tucker, entitled Heavenly Torah: As Refracted Through the Generations.

* Rabbi Steinsaltz talks about the Torah to BBC ( sound file )

** Numbers ( The Living Torah ) Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan's translation and commentary at Ort. org

By the 12th century, the Mishneh Torah ( i. e., Rabbi Moses Maimonides ) was criticizing Christianity on the grounds of idol worship, in that Christians attributed divinity to Jesus who had a physical body.

However, in 1962 the London Beth Din and the Chief Rabbi Israel Brodie, who formed the leadership of the United Synagogue, the UK's Orthodox establishment, refused to allow his appointment on grounds of heresy because in his 1957 book We Have Reason to Believe, Jacobs had rejected the conception of a literal, verbal revelation of the Torah.

* Exodus ( The Living Torah ) Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan's translation and commentary at Ort. org

* Genesis ( The Living Torah ) Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan's translation and commentary at Ort. org

Rabbi Judah HaNasi also said, " One who is ignorant of the Torah should not eat meat.

While teaching Torah, Rabbi Judah would often interrupt the lesson to recite the Shema prayer.

Some of the statement's more notable supporters are Rabbi Marc Angel, co-founder of The Rabbinic Fellowship ; Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, founder of Lincoln Square Synagogue, Efrat, and Ohr Torah Stone Institutions ; and Rabbi Avi Weiss, head of the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, founder of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah and Yeshivat Maharat, and co-founder of The Rabbinic Fellowship.

** Leviticus ( The Living Torah ) Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan's translation and commentary at Ort. org

Mosheh ben Maimon ( משה בן מימון )‎, called Moses Maimonides and also known as Mūsā ibn Maymūn (), or RaMBaM ( רמב " ם – Hebrew acronym for " Rabbi Mosheh Ben Maimon "), was a preeminent medieval Jewish philosopher and one of the most prolific and followed Torah scholars and physicians of the Middle Ages.

Maimonides studied Torah under his father Maimon, who had in turn studied under Rabbi Joseph ibn Migash – a student of Isaac Alfasi.

There were female Tannaic Torah jurists such as Rabbi Meir's wife, Rabbi Meir's daughter, and the daughter of Haninyah ben Teradyon Haninyah's daughter is again mentioned as a sage in the non-Talmud 3rd Century text Tractate Semahot verse 12: 13.

* The " Master Torah " Mishnah Ba ' al Peh Program by Rabbi Meir Pogrow.

While Jacobs found that statement to be compatible with Orthodox Judaism, the Chief Rabbi condemned his views as denial of the divine origin of the Torah.

Even those " Poskim " that would normally not rely on women witnesses, they would certainly agree that in our case ... where there is ample evidence that this Rabbi violated Torah precepts, then even children or women can certainly be kosher as witnesses, as the Chasam Sofer pointed out in his sefer ( monograph ) ( Orach Chaim T ' shuvah 11 )

Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi wrote that " Rashi ’ s commentary on Torah is the ‘ wine of Torah ’.