CHARLIE: When you're Jewish like me you try to live life by God's Commandments in the Torah the first Five Books of Moses. Every synagogue has its own Torah scrolls. Each one is hand-written in ...

If children practice responding to stories in the context of Torah, this will enhance their ability to understand and respond to other books. Therefore, a literacy-based Torah curriculum does not ...

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 ...

A new installment of the Amos Parisman mysteries is out. In this book, L.A.’s “oldest and most unconventional Jewish gumshoe” Parisman has to track down the fate of a historic Torah scroll that’s been ...

In the case of the Torah (also called the Pentateuch), the order of the books is clear, since its five books were traditionally copied onto a single scroll. However, regarding the rest of the Old ...

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 ...

Avayu, 55, explained that each book of the Torah takes him about two years to ... he gave the example of Moses at Mount Sinai. In Exodus 3:5, God tells Moses to take off his shoes because ...

The Torah contains many laws that guide Jews on how to live a life that pleases God. The Torah contains 613 laws. These are known by Jews as the mitzvot. Jews use the Torah as a guide for living.

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 ...