It describes how contemplating the mystical greatness of the Creator and the union that a Jew has with Him through the Torah's commandments, can achieve the love and fear of God necessary for sincere worship.

In the Torah, prophecy often consisted of a conditioned warning by God of the consequences should the society, specific communities, or their leaders not adhere to Torah's instructions in the time contemporary with the prophet's life.

Nevertheless, as recorded in the Tanakh (" Old Testament " Bible ), in defiance of the Torah's teachings, the patron god YHWH was frequently worshipped in conjunction with other gods such as Baal, Asherah, and El.

A significant concern of Jewish authorities was to ensure compliance with the Torah's commandments, the enactments of the Mosaic Law ; yet, as these laws had been written in circumstances of the past, they seemed to call for adaptation or explication if they were to fit the circumstances of contemporary life.

The entire world had become filled with the issues of the anointed one and of the Torah and the Laws, and these issues had spread out unto faraway islands and among many nations uncircumcised in the heart, and they discuss these issues and the Torah's laws.

A number of scholars think that the tribe of Issachar actually originated as the Shekelesh group of Sea Peoples-the name Shekelesh can be decomposed as men of the Shekel in Hebrew, a meaning synonymous with man of hire ( ish sakar ); scholars believe that the memory of such non-Israelite origin would have led to the Torah's authors having given Issachar a handmaiden as a matriarch.

So, too, we are to be careful not to introduce into the sphere of the Torah foreign ideas … Rather, we should always be mindful of the superiority of the Torah, which differs from all other scientific knowledge through its Divine origin … Sages do not demand of us to completely ignore all the scientific knowledge … rather that a person familiar with these other realms of knowledge, but … only from the Torah's perspective … and they warn us that neglecting this perspective will jeopardize our intellectual life.

Lord George Gordon associated only with pious Jews ; in his passionate enthusiasm for his new faith, he refused to deal with any Jew who compromised the Torah's commandments.

This is what the Zionists have wrought with their decrees against the numerous holy communities, who returned from their countries of exile, where even the simplest among them had been separated from the surrounding gentiles by the Torah's hedge of roses.

: The Torah's story of creation is not intended as a scientific treatise, worthy of equal time with Darwin's theory of evolution in the curriculum of our public schools.

They have also expressed an openness to evolutionary theory in biology, except where they perceive that it is in conflict with the Torah's account of creation.

On the other hand, he argued that while Torah was to be the focus of all study, it was also important to integrate the Torah's teachings into one's life.

The Magbiah (" lifter ") performs Hagbaha (" lifting the Torah ") and displays the Torah's Hebrew text for all to see.

While attending the seudah for a Pidyon Haben, the Vilna Gaon was asked whether it was true that all the Torah's commandments are alluded to in Bereishit, the first portion of the Torah.

Most of the basic laws of kashrut are derived from the Torah's Books of Leviticus and Deuteronomy.

According to biblical scholars, the Torah's genealogy for Levi's descendants, is actually an aetiological myth reflecting the fact that there were four different groups among the levites – the Gershonites, Kohathites, Merarites, and Aaronids ; Aaron – the eponymous ancestor of the Aaronids – couldn't be portrayed as a brother to Gershon, Kohath, and Merari, as the narrative about the birth of Moses ( brother of Aaron ), which textual scholars attribute to the earlier Elohist source, mentions only that both his parents were Levites ( without identifying their names ).

The Torah's Joseph narrative, at a stage when Joseph is unrecognised by his brothers, describes Joseph as testing whether his brothers have reformed, by secretly planting a silver cup in Benjamin's bag, then publicly searching the bags for it, and after finding it in Benjamin's possession, demanding that Benjamin become his slave as a punishment.

A saying that captures this goes, " Turn it Torah's words over and over again, for everything is in it.

Torah Judaism is an English term used by a number of Orthodox Jewish groups to describe their Judaism as being based on an adherence to the laws of the Torah's mitzvot as expounded in Orthodox Halakha.

According to some Biblical scholars, the Torah's genealogy for Levi's descendants, is actually an aetiological myth reflecting the fact that there were four different groups among the levites-the Gershonites, Kohathites, Merarites, and Aaronids ; Aaron — the eponymous ancestor of the Aaronids — couldn't be portrayed as a brother to Gershon, Kohath, and Merari, as the narrative about the birth of Moses ( brother of Aaron ), which textual scholars attribute to the earlier Elohist source, mentions only that both his parents were Levites ( without identifying their names ).

According to textual scholars, the biblical text describing the battle and the events surrounding it is considerably late in date, originating close to the time that they postulate as the date of the deuteronomist's compilation of Judges from its source material, and possibly has several exaggerations of both numbers and of modes of warfare, and additionally, the inhospitality which triggered the Battle is reminiscent of the Torah's account of Sodom and Gomorrah.

According to biblical scholars, the Torah's genealogy for Levi's descendants, is actually an aetiological myth reflecting the fact that there were four different groups among the Levites – the Gershonites, Kohathites, Merarites, and Aaronids ; Aaron – the eponymous ancestor of the Aaronids – couldn't be portrayed as a brother to Gershon, Kohath, and Merari, as the narrative about the birth of Moses ( brother of Aaron ), which textual scholars attribute to the earlier Elohist source, mentions only that both his parents were Levites ( without identifying their names ).

In the Torah's account of the journey of the Israelites after the Exodus, Machir ( the individual ) is portrayed as conquering the territories known as Gilead and Bashan, which had previously been occupied by Amorites.

The term Halakha LeMoshe MiSinai, literally " Law to Moses from Sinai ", is used in classical Rabbinical literature to refer to oral law regarded as having been of direct Divine origin, transmitted to Moses at Mount Sinai at the same time as the written Torah, but not included in the Oral Torah's exposition of it.

According to some biblical scholars, the Torah's genealogy for Levi's descendants is actually an aetiological myth reflecting the fact that there were four different groups among the levites-the Gershonites, Kohathites, Merarites, and Aaronids ; according to biblical scholars, Levite was originally just a job title, deriving from the Minaean word lawi ' u meaning priest, rather than having been the name of a tribe.

The majority view of classical rabbis is that the Torah's commandments will still be applicable and in force during the messianic era.

In the Torah's 613 Mitzvot ( commandments ) the 613th is that every Jewish male should write a Sefer Torah in their lifetime.

The Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation has published material to help Jewish couples navigate the maze of finding a marriage partner without violating the guidelines of the Torah's prohibitions of slander or hearsay, yet to also know what is permissible to ask and tell so that future spouses not be fooled or harmed by unrevealed personal information of a delicate nature:

He is known for introducing the notion that in the event of a " life or death situation ", Halakha does not apply ( unless it involves the transgression of Judaism's three " cardinal sins ": Worship of idols ( avoda zara ), sexual immorality ( gilui arayot ), and murder ( shfichut damim when a Jew is then obligated to give his life ( yehareg ve ' al ya ' avor ) rather than transgress the Torah's commandments ).

According to biblical scholars, the Torah's genealogy for Levi's descendants is actually an aetiological myth reflecting the fact that there were four different groups among the Levites — the Gershonites, the Kohathites, the Merarites, and the Aaronids.

The Torah's emphasis is clearly on the tu ' mah ( טומאה, " ritual impurity ") that results from a diagnosis of tzaraath because the verses focus on the kohens declaration of " unclean "-וראהו הכהן וטמא אתו (" The kohen will see eruption and him impure ").

" To Shafran, the Jewish oral tradition is the key to the true meaning of the Torah's words.

" He is said to expound the " Torah's divine wisdom ," and protects the ministering angels from the Hayyoth, the " holy Creatures " that uphold the universe.

Like Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir, Kleiner's strong Jewish nationalism stems more from the teachings of Zev Jabotinsky whose philosophy is centered on the Torah's promise of Israel being the eternal home of the Jewish People as well as the heritage of the crown of King David belonging to the Jewish people.

Duran believed that Judaism has three dogmas only: the existence of haShem, the Torah's Divine origin, and Reward and Punishment ; in this regard he was followed by Joseph Albo.

Jews were able to gain a foothold in the new field of finance by providing these services: as non-Catholics, they were not bound by the ecclesiastical prohibition against " usury "; and in terms of Judaism itself, Hillel had long ago re-interpreted the Torah's ban on charging interest.

Many other Orthodox Jews suggest that over the millennia, some scribal errors have crept into the Torah's text.

In modern Biblical scholarship, six different law codes are considered to compose the body of the Torah's text:

James Kugel argues that the Torah's specifically forbidding child sacrifice indicates that it happened in Israel as well.

" One must " establish the Torah's primacy over the modes of business and professional life so that his behavior transforms even that ' mundane ' portion of his life into a sanctification.

* King David, Job and Ezekiel described the Torah's length without putting a number to it ( in Tractate Eruvin 21a ).