Many people I encounter here in Victoria have no familiarity at all with basic Jewish vocabulary, so I thought I would use this opportunity as a very basic primer.

[S&W, p. OT 432] By the time of Christ, all Jews accepted the five Books of Moses - the Torah - as Scripture; however, Books, like Esther and Ecclesiastes, were debated. From the Dead Sea Scrolls ...

What does it mean to love our children equally? It’s a question that many families wrestle with, especially when each ...

The Hasidim are first of all Orthodox Jews. They believe that the Torah, the five books of Moses, is the literal word of God, and that carrying out this word is what gives meaning and purpose to life.

NEW YORK (JTA) — The Torah tells how God created the earth and ... It features both Yiddish and Hebrew books on astronomy and astrology, science fiction works created by Jews and sections ...

Each of Rabbi Yehiel Mikhel’s five sons went on to become a ... “The Torah will also be within you, since the Torah was given in this very book” (Or Yitzhak, p. 97). Rabbi Yitzhak’s ...

While saving human lives is top priority according to Jewish tradition, the mandate to save Torahs is a close second, ...

The Torah’s claim about the revelation at Har Sinai also reinforces our belief in Hashem (in addition to our faith in the Torah’s Divine origin). The claim that an entire nation (as opposed to a l ...

The Strands and the Cord Thoughts on Torah Portion Va’eira 2025 Throughout her discussion of this week’s Torah portion, ...

A Torah scroll, the most sacred item in Judaism, contains 300,000 letters of the first five books of the Bible. It is written entirely by hand with a feather, black ink on parchment made of animal ...

Together, they wrote “It Takes Two to Torah: An Orthodox Rabbi and Reform Journalist Discuss and Debate Their Way Through the Five Books of Moses.” Many of us grew up with a straightforward ...