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

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.

Historically, Jews have considered it of central importance: traditionally, children began their study of the Torah with Leviticus, and the midrashic literature on Leviticus is among the longest and most detailed of midrashic literature ( see Bamberger 1981: 737 ).

" 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.

It is also the subject of intense study in yeshivas ; see Torah study.

The study of Torah ( in its widest sense, to include both poetry, narrative, and law, and both the Hebrew Bible and the Talmud ) is in Judaism itself a sacred act of central importance.

For the sages of the Mishnah and Talmud, and for their successors today, the study of Torah was therefore not merely a means to learn the contents of God's revelation, but an end in itself.

But the study of the Torah is equal to them all.

In Judaism, " the study of Torah can be a means of experiencing God ".

To study the Written Torah and the Oral Torah in light of each other is thus also to study how to study the word of God.

In the study of Torah, the sages formulated and followed various logical and hermeneutical principles.

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

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 ).

This order is also quoted in Mishneh Torah Hilchot Sefer Torah 7: 15.

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 ).

Isaiah is the most quoted of all the books of the Hebrew Bible outside of the Torah.

The Book of Numbers ( from Greek Ἀριθμοί, Arithmoi ;, Bəmidbar, " In the desert ") is the fourth book of the Hebrew Bible, and the fourth of five books of the Jewish Torah.

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

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 ".

The Pharisees, who not only accepted the Torah, but the rest of the Hebrew scriptures also, believed in the Resurrection of the Dead, and it is known to have been a major point of contention between the two groups ( see ).

The product of this human-divine encounter is the Torah, the embodiment of God's will revealed pre-eminently to the Jewish people through Moses, the Prophets and the Sages, as well as to the righteous and wise of all nations.

Conservative Judaism is comfortable with higher criticism, including the documentary hypothesis, the theory that the Torah was redacted from several earlier sources.

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

This idea is first found in the Torah ( the five books of Moses, which are also included in the Christian Bible ) and is elaborated on in later books of the Hebrew Bible.

With regard to human beings, the CJPS adaptation sets out to represent the gender implications of the Torah ’ s language as its composer ( s ) counted on the original audience to receive them, given the gender assumptions of that time and place.

* Putting phylacteries on the slave, or making him publicly read three or more verses from the Torah, was counted as a declaration of the slave's manumission

It is counted in its own right as among the most important commentaries on the Torah.

Torah verses and Rabbinical commentary to the Tanach imply that the Kohen has a unique leadership role amongst the nation of Israel-in addition to the common knowledge that the Kohen is to officiate the sacrificial activity in the Temple ( the Korbanot ), the Kohen is assumed responsibility of being knowleadgable in the laws and nuances of the Torah and accurately instructing those laws to the Jewish people.

There is a higher incidence of yeshivish being spoken amongst Orthodox Jews that are regularly involved in Torah study, or belong to a community that promotes its study.

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.

The Torah ark or ark in a synagogue ( Jewish house of worship ) is known in Hebrew as the Aron Kodesh by the Ashkenazim and as the Hekhál amongst most Sefardim.

As is common amongst great Rabbis, he is most commonly known by the name of his popular book Noam Elimelech, a commentary on the Torah.

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

The quintessential physical expression of Judaism is behaving in accordance with the 613 Mitzvot ( the commandments specified in the Torah ), and thus live one's life in God's ways.

Halakha constitutes the practical application of the 613 mitzvot (" commandments ", singular: mitzvah ) in the Torah, ( the five books of Moses, the " Written Law ") as developed through discussion and debate in the classical rabbinic literature, especially the Mishnah and the Talmud ( the " Oral law "), and as codified in the Mishneh Torah or Shulchan Aruch ( the Jewish " Code of Law ".

According to the Talmud ( Tractate Makot ), there are 613 mitzvot (" commandments ") in the Torah ; in Hebrew these are known as the Taryag mitzvot תרי " ג מצוות.

According to rabbinic tradition there are 613 commandments in the Torah.

According to religious Judaism, the 613 mitzvot or " commandments " given in the written Torah, as well as their reasonings in the oral Torah, were issued to the Jews only, and are therefore binding only upon them, having inherited the obligation from their ancestors.

These include moral responsibility for own actions, eligibility to be called to read from the Torah and lead or participate in a Minyan, May possess personal property, May be legally married according to Jewish law, Must follow the 613 laws of the Torah and keep the Halakha, May testify as a witness in a Beth Din ( Rabbinical court ) case.

The 613 commandments (: taryag mitzvot, " 613 Mitzvot "; Biblical Hebrew: Miṣwoth ) is a numbering of the statements and principles of law, ethics, and spiritual practice which have been derived by religious interpretation of the Torah or Five Books of Moses.

This is accomplished through observance of the 613 commandments in the Torah, which deal primarily with physical objects wherein good and evil are mixed together.

According to rabbinic tradition there are 613 mitzvot in the Torah.

Midrash halakha ( Hebrew: ה ֲ ל ָ כ ָ ה ‎) was the ancient Judaic rabbinic method of Torah study that expounded upon the traditionally received 613 Mitzvot (" laws ") by identifying their sources in the Tanakh ( Hebrew Bible ), and by interpreting these passages as proofs of the laws ' authenticity.

It is a word used in Judaism to refer to the 613 commandments given in the Torah ( at Mount Sinai, where all the Jews accepted the Torah, saying " We will do, and we will listen ") and the seven rabbinic commandments instituted later for a total of 620.

The Rabbis came to assume that the Law of the Torah comprised 613 commandments.

They give rise to the phrase " Keter Torah " (" The Crown of the Torah ") as the numeric value of Keter is 620 ( 613 + 7 ).

Out of the 613 Mitzvot mentioned in the Torah, there are six mitzvot which the Sefer Hachinuch calls " constant mitzvot ": " We have six mitzvot which are perpetual and constant, applicable at all times, all the days of our lives ".

However, the party believed that Israeli society and the state of Israel should support the poor and the needy, derived from the 613 mitzvot of the Torah.

In Judaism the number 613 is very significant, as its metaphysics, the Kabbalah, views every complete entity as divisible into 613 parts: 613 parts of every Sefirah ; 613 mitzvot, or divine Commandments in the Torah ; 613 parts of the human body.