Yahuda101 Torah
Yahuda101 Torah Torah By Yahuda101 Five books of story, law, and poetry divided into 54 weekly portions. T he Torah (Hebrew for “the teachings”) is the name given to the Five Books of Moses which come at the very beginning of the Bible . These books form the basis of all Jewish law and practice. A Torah scroll is a parchment scroll on which all five books have been inscribed by a specially trained calligrapher. Torah scrolls are typically kept in synagogues, in a special cabinet called an ark. F or Jews, the concept of “ Torah ” is much broader than the books themselves, the delimited concept of the Torah. “Torah” can refer to all of traditional Jewish learning, but “the Torah” usually refers to the Torah she’bi’ktav , the written Torah, also known as the chumash (the five volumes or Pentateuch, sometimes referred to as the Five Books of Moses). There are 79,976 words in the Torah. The oldest part of the Dead Sea scrolls, the Isaiah Scroll, found relatively intact, is 1000 ...