At the same time, I am committed to doing all I can to meet the developmental and individual needs of my young students. Developmentally, the text of the Torah is challenging for young children. The ...

They deliberately set aside the written “Torah of Moses” to conceive a new Torah—this time unwritten—which would gradually supplant the former. Some scholars have argued that the ...

What’s the Bible for? We asked dozens of writers to respond to this question in seven words or less, as well as to expand on their response in a few sentences. To see all of the responses together as ...

Every synagogue has its own Torah scrolls. Each one is hand-written in Hebrew just like the original. There are 304805 letters in a Torah scroll and each page has 42 lines. We believe Moses wrote ...

Congregation Beth Am Israel in Penn Valley marked the start of its Torah, Ruach, Limmud Campaign with a Torah writing celebration weekend from April 3 to 6. The events included Torah writing sessions ...

For many Jews, the sacred texts are very special, so a great deal of respect is shown towards them. The Torah refers to the first five books of Moses. Judaism teaches that God dictated the Torah ...

every Jew is obliged to engage in the other two ‘lower’ parts of the Torah - the Written Torah and the Oral Torah, which are in alluded to as ׳saying’ and ‘speaking’.