Other Torah verses about chosenness,

According to Jewish tradition ( adopted by Christianity ) the Torah was dictated to Moses by God, with the exception of the last eight verses of Deuteronomy which describe the death and burial of Moses.

The Talmud ( Minachot 30a ) says that the last eight verses of the Torah that discuss the death and burial of Moses could not have been written by Moses, as writing it would have been a lie, and that they were written after his death by Joshua.

Other commentators do not accept this position and maintain that although Moses did not write those eight verses it was nonetheless dictated to him and that Joshua wrote it based on instructions left by Moses, and that the Torah often describes future events, some of which have yet to occur.

Sitrei Torah are drashas of verses from the Torah regarding matters of the soul and the secret of Divinity, and they are dispersed in the Zohar Vol.

The Haggadah recommends answering each son according to his question, using one of the three verses in the Torah that refer to this exchange.

Importantly, Maimonides, while enumerating the above, added the following caveat " There is no difference between Biblical statement ' his wife was Mehithabel ' 10, 6 on the one hand an " unimportant " verse, and ' Hear, O Israel ' on the other an " important " verse ... anyone who denies even such verses thereby denies God and shows contempt for his teachings more than any other skeptic, because he holds that the Torah can be divided into essential and non-essential parts ..." The uniqueness of the 13 fundamental beliefs was that even a rejection out of ignorance placed one outside Judaism, whereas the rejection of the rest of Torah must be a conscious act to stamp one as an unbeliever.

The verses are available in three manuscript traditions, the Masoretic, the Septuagint and the Samaritan Torah.

Sadducees rejected the Pharisaic tenet of an oral Torah, and created new interpretations based on a literal understanding of verses.

This is evident in the practice of reciting the Shema, a prayer composed of select verses from the Torah, at the Temple and in synagogues ; the Shema begins with the verses, " Hear O Israel, the Lord is our God ; the Lord is one.

For the sounding just before Musaf, after the Torah reading, relevant verses from the Bible are recited, followed by two blessings: one on the Biblical commandment of " hearing the sound of the shofar " and the blessing of Shehecheyanu.

Tefillin ( Askhenazic: ; Israeli Hebrew:, ) also called phylacteries ( from Ancient Greek phylacterion, form of phylássein, φυλάσσειν meaning " to guard, protect ") are a set of small black leather boxes containing scrolls of parchment inscribed with verses from the Torah, which are worn by observant Jews during weekday morning prayers.

The verses are 3 from the Torah, 3 from the Ketuvim, 3 from the Nevi ' im, and one more from the Torah.

As with all biblical verses, Jewish law derives numerous details and specifications relating to the commandments by interpreting the manner in which words are utilized, spelled and juxtaposed in the verses of the Torah.

A mezuzah ( " doorpost "; plural: מ ְ זו ּ זו ֹ ת mezuzot ) is a piece of parchment ( often contained in a decorative case ) inscribed with specified Hebrew verses from the Torah ( and ).

* English name for Tefillin, a pair of small, black, leather boxes containing scrolls of parchment inscribed with verses from the Torah, which are worn by observant Jews during weekday morning prayers.

In Orthodox and Conservative synagogues, the hakafot are accompanied by traditional chants, including biblical and liturgical verses and songs about the Torah, the goodness of God, Messianic yearnings, and prayers for the restoration of the House of David and the Temple in Jerusalem.

The tradition that Rabbi Hosha ' iah is the author of Genesis Rabba may be taken to mean that he began the work, in the form of the running commentary customary in tannaitic times, arranging the exposition on Genesis according to the sequence of the verses, and furnishing the necessary complement to the tannaitic midrashim on the other books of the Torah.

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.

There are 248 positive mitzvot and 365 negative mitzvot given in the Torah, supplemented by seven mitzvot legislated by the rabbis of antiquity ; see Rabbinical commandments.

All Orthodox authorities, however, agree that only later Rabbinical interpretations are subject to reconsideration, and hold that core sources of Divine written and oral law, such as the Torah the Mishnah and the Talmud, cannot be overridden.

In collaboration with the late Chaim Potok, Kushner co-edited Etz Hayim: A Torah Commentary, the new official Torah commentary of the Conservative movement, which was jointly published in 2001 by the Rabbinical Assembly and the Jewish Publication Society.

Dwelling in the sukkah is a Torah requirement during the seven days of Sukkot, while using the lulav and etrog is a ( less-stringent ) Rabbinical requirement after the first day of Sukkot.

Because the eighth day is added to the seven because of doubt, the stringent, Torah requirement ( sukkah ) is continued into the eighth day, while the less-stringent, Rabbinical requirement ( lulav and etrog ) is not.

Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School also requires an undergraduate degree before entering the program.

While some Haredi ( including Hasidic ) yeshivas ( also known as " Talmudical / Rabbinical schools or academies ") do grant official semicha (" ordination ") to many students wishing to become rabbis, most of the students within the yeshivas engage in learning Torah or Talmud without the goal of becoming rabbis or holding any official positions.

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 Messianic Jewish Rabbinical Council, many of whose members are affiliated with the Union of Messianic Jewish Congregations, has published its standards of Messianic Torah observance.

They may study simply the peshat of the text, or they may also study, to a limited extent, the remez, derash and sod, which is found in Etz Hayyim: A Torah Commentary ( Rabbinical Assembly ), used in many Conservative congregations.

To the other extreme, some Modern Orthodox Jews understand Hirsch in the sense of Torah Umadda, meaning a synthesis of Torah knowledge and secular knowledge-each for its own sake ( this view is propagated in several articles in Tradition: A Journal of Orthodox Thought, published by the Rabbinical Council of America ).

The content of this law, or in Hebrew Torah, was excerpted and codified in Rabbinical Judaism, and in the Talmud were numbered as the 613 commandments.

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.

It is distinguished from the written Torah, on the one hand, and Rabbinical decrees, customs, and other man-made laws on the other hand.

A clear majority of Rabbinical Torah scholars saw Job as having in fact existed as a powerful and historically factual figure.

In these chapters Jacobs took on discussion of ‘ Modern Criticism ’ of the Bible, more specifically textual analysis of the Torah known as the ‘ Documentary Hypothesis ’, which suggests that its texts derives from multiple sources, rather than having been given, as Orthodox Rabbinical traditions have it, complete in its present form by God to Moses during the period beginning on Mount Sinai and ending with Moses's death.

Prior to World War II, Kelmė () was home to a famous Rabbinical College, the Kelm Talmud Torah.

" Moreh Derekh ", the Rabbi's manual of the Conservative Judaism movement's Rabbinical Assembly, presents a ceremony based on traditional Jewish forms, with a number of options that parents may choose to perform: ( A ) Lighting seven candles ( symbolizing the seven days of creation ) and holding the baby towards them, ( B ) Wrapping the baby in the four corners of a tallit ( Jewish prayer shawl ), or ( C ) Lifting the baby and touching her hands to a Torah scroll.

Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School recently announced Meorot: A Forum of Modern Orthodox Discourse.

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

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

The movement's rabbinic authorities and its official Torah commentary ( Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary ) affirm that Jews should make use of modern critical literary and historical analysis to understand how the Bible developed.

* 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

In his commentary to the Torah verse ( Hebrew: " ואהבת לרעך כמוך " ca. 1300 BCE ):

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

The earliest recorded oral law may have been of the midrashic form, in which halakhic discussion is structured as exegetical commentary on the Torah.

The commentary is designed to make the Mishnah widely accessible to a wide spectrum of learners of all ages and all levels of experience in Torah study.

In cooperation with the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism and the Jewish Publication Society, the RA published the Etz Hayim Humash, a Torah commentary for synagogue use.

* a Torah commentary by Ismar Schorsch

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

Scholars believe that Rashi's commentary on the Torah grew out of the lectures he gave to his students in his yeshiva, and evolved with the questions and answers they raised on it.

Rashi's students, Rabbi Shemaya and Rabbi Yosef, edited the final commentary on the Torah ; some of their own notes and additions also made their way into the version we have today.

Since its publication, Rashi's commentary on the Torah is standard in almost all Chumashim produced within the Orthodox Jewish community.

* Reading, studying and discussing Torah and commentary, Mishnah and Talmud, learning some Halakha and Midrash.

For instance, it serves as a major source in the Torah commentary of Shlomo Yitzhaki, " Rashi ", and therefor has always been the standard fare for Ashkenaz's ( French, central European, and German ) Jews.

According to medieval sage Rabbi Shlomo Ephraim Luntschitz, author of the Torah commentary Kli Yakar, the complexity of these laws was intended to discourage the consumption of meat.

It is a group of books including commentary on the mystical aspects of the Torah ( the five books of Moses ) and scriptural interpretations as well as material on Mysticism, mythical cosmogony, and mystical psychology.

After this introduction is the Zohar's commentary on most of the parashahs of the Torah.

* Rashi's commentary on the Torah is the first dated book to be printed in Hebrew, in Reggio di Calabria.