According to the Torah, the tribe consisted of descendants of Zebulun, the sixth son of Jacob and Leah, from whom it took its name.

According to the Torah, the tribe consisted of descendants of Simeon the second son of Jacob, and of Leah, from whom it took its name ; however some Biblical scholars view this as postdiction, an eponymous metaphor providing an aetiology of the connectedness of the tribe to others in the Israelite confederation.

According to the Torah, the tribe consisted of descendants of Reuben, the first son of Jacob, and a son of Leah, from whom it took its name.

According to the Torah, the tribe consisted of descendants of Judah, the fourth son of Jacob and of Leah.

According to the Torah, the tribe consisted of descendants of Issachar, the ninth son of Jacob, and a son of Leah, from whom it took its name ; however some biblical scholars view this also as postdiction, an eponymous metaphor providing an aetiology of the connectedness of the tribe to others in the Israelite confederation.

The text of the Torah argues that the name of Naphtali refers to the struggle between Rachel and Leah for the favours of Jacob ; Bilhah was the handmaid of Rachel, who had thought herself to be infertile, and had persuaded Jacob to have a child with Bilhah as a proxy for having one with herself.

Some rabbinic literature attempts to resolve the textual discrepancy in which the Torah lists 34 children of Leah born in Mesopotamia, stating that two were dead, and then immediately states that there were 33 in total, by arguing that the figure referred only to the surviving children, and that Jochebed was the 33rd ; however, since the Book of Numbers describes Jochebed's birth as occurring in Egypt, this necessitated the further rabbinic argument that Jochebed was born exactly on the border of Egypt, in the gateway of the city.

According to some traditional interpretations of the Book of Exodus, Book of Numbers, and the Letter to the Hebrews the Ark also contained Aaron's rod, a jar of manna and the first Torah scroll as written by Moses ; however, the first of the Books of Kings says that at the time of king Solomon, the Ark contained only the two Tablets of the Law.

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.

The Old Testament is called by the Jews the Tanakh, an acronym formed by combining the initials of the three sections by which the Jews divide the text: the Torah, or Law ( the Pentateuch ), the Nevi ' im, or Prophets, and the Ketuvim, or Writings or Hagiographa ( with vowels added, as Hebrew is written with a consonantal script, TaNaKh ).

The midrashic book of Jasher argues that prior to revealing his identity, Joseph asked Benjamin to find his missing brother ( i. e. Joseph ) via astrology, using an astrolabe-like tool ; it continues by stating that Benjamin divined that the man on the throne was Joseph, so Joseph identified himself to Benjamin ( but not the other brothers ), and revealed his scheme ( as in the Torah ) to test how fraternal the other brothers were.

Told largely in the form of a first-person memoir, it concerns the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem by Nehemiah, a Jew who is a high official at the Persian court, and the dedication of the city and its people to God's laws ( Torah ).

It was in this period that the Pentateuch ( or Torah, to give the Hebrew name ) was composed, by detaching the book of Deuteronomy from the Deuteronomistic history and adding it to the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers.

In the Torah, or Old Testament, every seventh year is decreed by Mosaic Law as a Sabbatical year wherein the release of all debts that are owed by members of the community is mandated, but not of " foreigners ".

Instead, they developed a daily and weekly service of readings from the Torah, and possibly also the Prophets, followed by commentary.

In this view, Oral Torah is considered inspired by Torah, but not necessarily of a straightforward divine origin.

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.

According to Rabbinic Judaism the Torah was revealed by God to Moses ; within it, Jews find 613 Mitzvot ( commandments ).

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 ).

As fellow monotheists, Muslims view Jews as " people of the book ", a term that Jews have subsequently adopted as a way of describing their own connection to the Torah and other holy texts.

the Genesis Rabbah, and particularly the midrashic book of Jasher, expand on this by describing Judah's plea as much more extensive than given in the Torah, and more vehement.

During synagogue services the related passages describing the holiday being observed are read aloud from a Torah scroll on the Bimah ( platform ) used at the center of the synagogue services.

In terms of the history of Jewish mysticism, Kabbalah has been called the " soul of the Torah ", describing its esoteric dimensions, while Hasidism has been called the " soul of the soul ", looking to the inner Divinity within everything.

" A man should not say: I shall carry out the precepts of the Torah and study her wisdom in order to receive all the blessings written therein or in order to merit the life of the World to Come and I shall keep away from the sins forbidden by the Torah in order to be spared the curses mentioned in the Torah or in order not to be cut off from the life of the World to Come.

For example, the Torah mandates that a woman in her normal menstrual period must abstain from sexual intercourse for seven days.

The Rabbis conflated ordinary niddah with this extended menstrual period, known in the Torah as zavah, and mandated that a woman may not have sexual intercourse with her husband from the time she begins her menstrual flow until seven days after it ends.

The leader will often interrupt the reading to discuss different points with his or her children, or to offer a Torah insight into the meaning or interpretation of the words.

Some apocrypha and pseudepigraphic sources express pessimism about human nature (" A grain of evil seed was sown in Adam's heart from the beginning "), and the Talmud ( b. Avodah Zarah 22b ) has an unusual passage which Edward Kessler describes as " the serpent seduced Eve in paradise and impregnated her with spiritual-physicial ' dirt ' which was inherited through the generations ," but the revelation at Sinai and the reception of the Torah cleansed Israel.

He said that " none that go unto her may return "-in fact, he thanked God for having saved him from its influence, and boasted of possessing no knowledge outside the Torah.

Bar Kappara considered the Torah known to us as composed of seven volumes in the Gemara " The seven pillars with which Wisdom built her house ( Prov.

The teachings of the Torah and Tanakh reveal the Israelites's familiarity with human sacrifices, as exemplified by the near-sacrifice of Isaac by his father Abraham ( Genesis 22: 1-24 ) and some believe, the actual sacrifice of Jephthah's daughter ( Judges 11: 31-40 ), while many believe that Jephthah's daughter was committed for life in service equivalent to a nunnery of the day, as indicated by her lament over her " weep for my virginity " and never having known a man ( v37 ).

He was prompted to write it by three motives: ( 1 ) to satisfy the minds of students of the Law and stimulate their interest by a critical examination of the text ; ( 2 ) to justify the ways of God and discover the hidden meanings of the words of Scripture, " for in the Torah are hidden every wonder and every mystery, and in her treasures is sealed every beauty of wisdom "; ( 3 ) to soothe the minds of the students by simple explanations and pleasant words when they read the appointed sections of the Pentateuch on Sabbaths and festivals.

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She stood loyally by her husband during that critical period of his life in which Akiva dedicated himself to the study of Torah.

"< ref Akiba-The Story of Rabbi Akiba and his times by Rabbi Dr M. Lehmann ) moved Akiva, and he told her that he could only dedicate himself to Torah if he had a wife like her by his side.

( There is one case where the Torah states "… and you shall cut off her hand …".

The Torah suggests that the name of Levi refers to Leah's hope for Jacob to join with her, implying a derivation from yillaweh, meaning he will join, but Biblical scholars have proposed quite different origins of the name.

Maimonides comments in his Mishneh Torah: " Great is peace, as the whole Torah was given in order to promote peace in the world, as it is stated, ' Her ways are pleasant ways and all her paths are peace.

Paul links the laws of the Torah, given on Mount Sinai, to the bondage of the Israelite people, implying that it was signified by Hagar's condition as a bondswoman, while the " free " heavenly Jerusalem is signified by Sarah and her child.

Shalom (" peace "), is one of the underlying principles of the Torah, as " her ways are pleasant ways and all her paths are shalom (' peace ').

Maimonides comments in his Mishneh Torah: " Great is peace, as the whole Torah was given in order to promote peace in the world, as it is stated, ' Her ways are pleasant ways and all her paths are peace.