However, the Talmud states that in exceptional cases, the Sages had the authority to " uproot matters from the Torah " in certain cases.

The first of the Ten Commandments can be interpreted to forbid the Children of Israel from worshiping any other god but the one true God who had revealed himself at Mount Sinai and given them the Torah, however it can also be read as henotheistic, since it states that they should have " no other gods before me.

The commandment to love other people is given in the Torah, which states, " Love your neighbor like yourself " ( Leviticus 19: 18 ).

A popular medieval saying that also served as his epitaph states, From Mosheh ( of the Torah ) to Mosheh ( Maimonides ) there was none like Mosheh.

The Hebrew Bible, or Torah, states that God revealed the design for the menorah to Moses and describes the construction of the menorah as follows ():

It is also based on the Hebrew Torah that states in Deuteronomy 31: 24, 25 and 26 ; After Moses finished writing the words of this Torah in a book from beginning to end.

Deuteronomy 17: 18 states ; When he takes the throne of his kingdom, he is to write for himself on a scroll a copy of this Torah, taken from that of the Levitical priests.

The Talmud explicitly states that no official targumim were composed besides these two on Torah and Nevi ' im alone, and that there is no official targum to Ketuvim (" The Writings ").

The Talmud states that the descendants of Sisera studied Torah in Jerusalem and even taught children there.

Historically, Christianity has taught supersessionism ( replacement theology ), which implies or outright states that Christianity has superseded Judaism, that the Mosaic Covenant of the Hebrew Bible has been superseded by the New Covenant of Jesus, wherein salvation is brought about by the grace of God, and not by obedience to the Torah.

The Torah states the only kosher flying insects with four walking legs have knees that extend above their feet so that they hop.

In the third book of the Torah, states that he that blasphemes the name of the " shall surely be put to death ".

Islam forbids lending with interest even today, while the Catholic Church allowed it from 1822 onwards, and the Torah states that all debts should be erased every 7 years and every 50 years ( in the Jubilee year, as described in the Book of Leviticus ).

However the Torah states ( Gen. 22: 1 ) that God meant to test Abraham, not Isaac?

In his brief survey of Arabic translations of the Bible, al-Masʿūdī states that the Israelites rely for exegesis and translation of the Hebrew books — i. e., the Torah, Prophets, and Psalms, twenty-four books in all, he says — on a number of Israelites whom they praise highly, almost all of whom he has met in person.

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

A similar genealogy is given in the Book of Exodus, where it is added that among Kohath's sons was one — Amram — who married a woman named Jochebed, who was closely related to his father, and they were the biological parents of Moses, Aaron, and Miriam ; though some Greek and Latin manuscripts of the Torah state that Jochebed was Amram's father's cousin, the masoretic text states that she was his father's sister, and the Septuagint mentions that she was one of his father's sisters.

Rips issued a public statement that he did not support Drosnin's work or conclusions ; even Gans has said that although the book states that the codes in the Torah can be used to predict future events: This is absolutely unfounded.

The Jewish Encyclopedia in the article " Gentiles ", section " Gentiles May Not Be Taught the Torah ", states:

The Code of Jewish Law states the custom of Simchat Torah is ancient.

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.

The Mishneh Torah, an authoritative work of Jewish law, states in Hilkhot Melakhim 11: 10 – 12 that Jesus is a " stumbling block " who makes " the majority of the world err to serve a divinity besides God ".

The Mishkan was built so that Hashem could again reside amongst men, as the Torah states ( Shoot 25: 8 ): " They will build Me a Mishkan so that I may reside amongst them.

* In the Torah, it is also the name of a gem-stone associated with the Tribe of Asher that has been identified by the Septuagint and by Josephus as the " gold stone " χρυσόλιθος ( whose identification remains in dispute, possibly topaz, probably not modern chrysolite ), and later as aquamarine.

The text of the Torah argues that the name of Asher means happy / blessing, implying a derivation from the Hebrew term osher ( with the same meaning ); the Torah actually presents this in two variations — beoshri ( meaning in my good fortune ), and ishsheruni, which textual scholars attribute to different sources — one to the Yahwist and the other to the Elohist.

In common with Asher is the possibility that the tribal name derives from a deity worshipped by the tribe, Gad being thought by scholars to be likely to have taken its name from Gad, the semitic god of fortune ; the name of Gad does not appear in the Song of Deborah, which scholars regard as one of the oldest parts of the Bible, pre-dating most of the Torah.

Despite the connection to this general geographic region, it is difficult to determine from the Torah the exact boundaries of the tribe, to the extent that it is even uncertain whether Asher even had continuous territory.

According to the Torah, the tribe consisted of descendants of Asher the eighth son of Jacob, from whom it took its name.

In his work Sefer Dikdukei ha Te ' amim, Aaron ben Asher wrote, " The prophets ... complete the Torah, are as the Torah, and we decide Law from them as we do from the Torah.

In his work Sefer Diqduqei HaTe ‘ amim, Aharon ben Asher wrote, " The prophets ... complete the Torah, are as the Torah, and we decide Law from them as we do from the Torah.

He also authored a commentary on the Torah, cited by many later Biblical commentators, chiefly Bahya ben Asher.

In his commentary on the Torah, Rabbi Bahya ben Asher ( 11th century, Spain ) concludes that there were many time systems occurring in the universe long before the spans of history that man is familiar with.

According to the Torah, Benjamin's ( or in some countries, Biniam's ) name arose when Jacob deliberately corrupted the name Benoni, the original name of Benjamin, since Benoni was an allusion to Rachel's dying just after she had given birth, as it means son of my pain.

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.

But if he did not succeed until now, or if he was killed, it becomes known that he is not this one of whom the Torah had promised us, and he is indeed like all proper and wholesome kings of the House of David who died.

One might note, however, that what is assumed to be a niche for the Torah scroll in the building probably originally built as a Judeo-Christian synagogue between AD 70 and AD 135 on the traditional site of the Cenacle or upper room of the Last Supper and now identified as the site of the King David's Tomb is oriented not towards the Temple Mount, but towards the site of the Holy Sepulchre, which would seem to indicate that the Christian community that had built it had already began to transfer many of the religious traditions originally associated with the Temple to the sites they associated with Christ's death and resurrection ( such as the burial place of Adam and the centre of the world ).

Once this task was completed Nehemiah had Ezra read the Law of Moses ( the Torah ) to the assembled Jews, and the people and priests entered into a covenant to keep the law and separate themselves from all other peoples.

Their answer was to insist on strict observance of the Law ( the Torah ), isolation from the gentiles, and minimalisation of the expectation of the coming of the Messiah ( the expectation which had provoked the war ).

The Torah has little to say on the subject of survival after death, but by the time of the rabbis two ideas had made inroads among the Jews: one, which is probably derived from Greek thought, is that of the immortal soul which returns to its creator after death ; the other, which is thought to be of Persian origin, is that of resurrection of the dead.

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

" In Muslim belief, before the Qur ' an, God had given the Torah to Moses, the Psalms to David and the Gospel to Jesus, who are all considered important Muslim prophets.

Prior to 1973, Conservative Judaism had more limited roles for women and was more similar to current Modern Orthodoxy, with changes on issues including mixed seating, synagogue corporate leadership, and permitting women to be called to the Torah.

The Torah ( Pentateuch in Greek ) always maintained its pre-eminence as the basis of the canon ; but the collection of prophetic writings, based on the Jewish Nevi ' im, had various hagiographical works incorporated into it.

Another formulation of the prayers was that appended by Maimonides to the laws of prayer in his Mishneh Torah: this forms the basis of the Yemenite liturgy, and has had some influence on other rites.

In post-talmudic times, when most Jewish communities had ceased speaking Aramaic, the public reading of Targum along with the Torah and Haftarah was abandoned in most communities.

Judaism does not have clergy as such, although according to the Torah there is a tribe of priests known as the Kohanim who were leaders of the religion up to the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem in 70AD when most Sadducees were wiped out ; each member of the tribe, a Kohen had priestly duties, many of which centered around the sacrificial duties, atonement and blessings of the Israelite nation.

" The great Jewish philosopher Philo understands this type of prophecy to be an extraordinarily high level of philosophical understanding, which had been reached by Moses and which enabled him to write the Torah through his own rational deduction of natural law.

For example, one legend in the Babylonian Talmud describes Titus as having had sex with a whore on a Torah scroll inside the Temple during its destruction.

These sages identified with the Prophets and maintained an oral tradition that they believed had originated at Mount Sinai alongside the Torah of Moses.

Celebrants marched with the scroll into the town's Chabad-Lubavitch centre, where they danced with the Torah which had been donated by members of the Chabad-Lubavitch community in Berlin.

During his lifetime Mainz became a center of Torah and Jewish scholarship for many Jewish communities in Europe that had formerly been connected with the Babylonian yeshivas.

Hirsch placed a much stronger emphasis on deep study of the entire Hebrew Bible, rather than just the Torah and selected Bible readings, in addition to Talmud, as had been the custom of religious Jews up until then.

Nahmanides disagrees with him ; especially with regard to Kabbalah ( Jewish mysticism ). Notwithstanding, he had tremendous respect for ibn Ezra, as is evidenced in his introduction to his commentary on the Five books of the Torah.