Prophet Abraham’s Prayers We have collected some of the best Prophet Abraham‘s prayers to use in request to God. May these prayers for safety bring you comfort and peace of mind. May these prayers for strength encourage your spirit and strengthen your faith. Abraham, originally Abram, is the common patriarch of the Abrahamic...
Prayers From Old Testament We have collected some of the best Prayers From Old Testament to use in request to God. May these prayers for safety bring you comfort and peace of mind. May these prayers for strength encourage your spirit and strengthen your faith. The Old Testament (abbreviated OT) is the first...
Ezra’s Prayer We have collected some of the best Ezra’s prayers to use in request to God. May these prayers for safety bring you comfort and peace of mind. May these prayers for strength encourage your spirit and strengthen your faith. Ezra, also called Ezra the Scribe and Ezra the...
Jewish Views On Sin This article covers Jewish Views On Sin. Judaism regards the violation of any of the 613 commandments as a sin. Judaism teaches that to sin is a part of life, since there is no perfect man and everyone has an inclination to do evil “from his...
Sacred Texts Timeline This is a sacred texts timeline which gives the history of religious texts, as well as a few other relevant events. Of course, not all of the dates in this timeline are accurate; some are entirely conjectural. I have included a few dates, events, and documents which...
Jewish Religious Texts This article covers the outline of Jewish Religious Texts. The importance of Judaism’s sacred texts extends far beyond their religious significance. These ancient documents embody not only Judaism’s religious precepts, but also the historical, cultural and social heritage of the Jewish people. In Israel, where attitudes towards...
The Torah The Torah is Judaism’s most important text. It is composed of the Five Books of Moses and also contains the 613 commandments (mitzvot) and the Ten Commandments. The word “Torah” means “to teach.” Five books of story, law, and poetry Main article: Oral Torah For Jews, the concept...
Weekly Torah Readings We have weekly Torah readings in our synagogue. We read (or, more accurately, chant, because it is sung) a passage from the Torah. This passage is referred to as a parshah. The first parshah, for example, is Parashat Bereishit, which covers from the beginning of Genesis to...
What Is Tosefta? The Tosefta (Jewish Babylonian Aramaic תוספתא “supplement, addition”) is a compilation of the Jewish oral law from the late 2nd century, the period of the Mishnah. Overview In many ways, the Tosefta acts as a supplement to the Mishnah (tosefta means “supplement, addition”). The Mishnah (Hebrew: משנה) is...
Torah Database A Torah database (מאגר תורני or מאגר יהדות) is an electronic collection of classic Jewish texts in electronic form, the kinds of texts which especially in Israel are often called “The Traditional Jewish Bookshelf” (ארון הספרים היהודי); the texts are in their original languages (Hebrew or Aramaic). These databases...
The Torah The Torah (תּוֹרָה, “Instruction”, “Teaching” or “Law”) has a range of meanings. It can most specifically mean the first five books (Pentateuch) of the 24 books of the Tanakh, and it is usually printed with the rabbinic commentaries (perushim). It can mean the continued narrative from the Book of Genesis to...
The Obligations Of Faith According To The Torah This article covers The Obligations Of Faith According To The Torah. Faith in God without Idolatry But I am the Lord your God… You shall acknowledge no God but Me, no Savior except Me. (Hosea, 13:4) O Lord… there is no God...
The Torah And Remembering God This article covers The Torah And Remembering God. The Importance Of Remembering God And Saying In the Torah Speaking of God … In all your ways acknowledge Him [Lord], and He will make your paths straight. (Proverbs, 3:6) Do not let this Book of the...
Meditation In The Old Testament This article covers Meditation in The Old Testament. Meditation is a practice where an individual uses a technique – such as mindfulness, or focusing their mind on a particular object, thought or activity – to train attention and awareness, and achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm state. The Old Testament (abbreviated OT) is...
The Excitement And Joy of Faith in the Old Testament This article covers The Excitement And Joy Of Faith In The Old Testament. Enthusiasm is intense enjoyment, interest, or approval. The word was originally used to refer to a person possessed by a god, or someone who exhibited intense piety. Faith is confidence or trust in a...
The Commandments Are Compatible In The Torah And Quran The prohibitions and commandments are compatible in the Torah and Quran. Prohibition is the act or practice of forbidding something by law; more particularly the term refers to the banning of the manufacture, storage (whether in barrels or in bottles), transportation, sale, possession, and consumption of alcoholic beverages....
The Attributes Of God According To The Old Testament This article covers The Attributes Of God According To The Old Testament. The Attributes of God are the character traits of God as they are revealed to us in the Old Testament. The Old Testament describes God in many different ways....
What Is Talmud? The Talmud (תַּלְמוּד talmūd) is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law (halakha) and Jewish theology. Until the advent of modernity, in nearly all Jewish communities, the Talmud was the centerpiece of Jewish cultural life and was foundational to “all Jewish thought and aspirations”,...
Tanakh The Hebrew Bible, also called the Tanakh (תַּנַ״ךְ, Tenakh, Tenak, Tanach) or Mikra, is the canonical collection of Hebrew scripture, which is also the textual source for the Christian Old Testament. These texts are composed mainly in Biblical Hebrew, with some passages in Biblical Aramaic (in the books of Daniel, Ezra...
The Torah And Afterlife This article covers the relationship between The Torah And Afterlife. Statements from the Torah Regarding the Transient Nature of This World All our days pass away under Your wrath; we finish our years with a moan. The length of our days is seventy years—or eighty, if...