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 ...

The structuring of Jesus' teaching into five discourses imitates the five books of Moses, the Torah. Therefore some scholars have proposed that Matthew presents Jesus as a New Moses giving a New Law.

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

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

Scholars debating the Torah – the five books of Moses – focused on three central questions: In each case, arguments that seemed to undermine the Torah’s authority – by highlighting ...

The Torah reveals an uplifting message from God: God will redeem the Hebrew slaves from their misery! But as Moses relays the miraculous news, the Hebrew slaves essentially ignore his announcement.

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

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 ...

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 ...