Oral Torah

previous pupils and that he was a sweet kid who cares about what really matters. In an effort to be inclusive, Jeremey invites Candy Andy, a homeless vagrant who is considered "crazy" by everyone, to his bar mitzvah. At the bar mitzvah, Jeremy hands the Torah to Candy Andy in a quite risky move and Candy Andy dances around the synagogue and sings Looney Tunes. While at first, everyone thought it was outlandish that this man was…

Rabbinate's & Karaites, the Pharisees, Sadducees and Essenes, and the different Rabbi interpretations or the Torah, Talmud, or Mishnah such as Rabbi Rashi or Rabbi Akiva. Throughout the museum, there were copies of the Torah in different structures such as the scroll made of parchment or a codex. There was a Torah that was on a scroll made of parchment written in ink from Tunisia in 1837. The Torah did not have any punctuation and it only had spacing between it to identify a new passage…

Languages are a good way to be able to merge into any culture. Whether it is in Spain, Greece or any other place of the world, getting to know and learning the language spoken there is an effective way of being able to be in sync with the inhabitants of that particular place. Hebrew is the official language of the modern state of Israel and many people want to achieve Hebrew Language Learn. The history of the Hebrew Alphabet The Hebrew language was the original language of the Bible. It…

Judaism is an old monotheistic religion, which uses Torah as the foundational text, on the other hand; Christianity is the religion of most people in the world, and they believe in Jesus being the son of God and their saviour. There are many contradictions in trying to show how these two religions relate, the following passage explains their relation. Many people insist that Judaism is the foundation of Christianity because Judaism began when God revealed himself to Abraham and Moses; Christians…

While reading about prophets in Carvalho many questions came to mind. The first question that came to mind was how do prophets come to be? How does God choose who is a prophet, and how does God communicate with them? One aspect I did not know was that there are many different kinds of prophets. Growing up I assumed that the only prophets were the ones listed in the Bible, such as Moses, Elijah, and Joseph. However, this is not the case, according to Carvalho, there were hundreds of prophets just…

The text that they used had three main sections: The Torah (law), Nevim (prophets), Ketuvim (writings)(Hackney, Ryan)(2016.) Judaism is said to be the parent of both Christianity and Islam. Hinduism, unlike Judaism doesn't have one main sacred text that they abide by. Rather, they have thousands of writings…

Judaism is considered to be the first monotheistic religion. It is one of the oldest religions existing today. Like many religions, Judaism began with a patriarch. Around 2,000 BC, Judaism was founded by a man named Abraham who was considered to be the ‘Father of the Jewish people’ whom lived in Mesopotamia. At the time, most people were polytheistic but the Jewish people believed in one God who they referred to as Yahweh. The Jews believed that God made a covenant with Abraham which…

Smith makes three important points of Paul’s interpretation of Genesis 15:6. First, “Abraham is forcefully taken away from the Jew as an exemplar for Torah obedience and is made into an exemplar of faith. Second, the result is that Abraham becomes the Father of All who believe and third, Paul uses Abraham to establish the authenticity of his revelation of grace.” Paul’s intentional inclusion of Abraham…

a whole. The words that are revealed by codes are not random words, but rather ones that relate directly to either that section of text or the entire work. For example, in Genesis, Exodus, Numbers and Deuteronomy every fiftieth letter spells out “Torah” or the law (Bibleprobe, 2014). These codes are found by following an equidistant letter sequence, or ELS, by starting with a certain letter and advancing forward, backward or sideways at a certain ELS interval (Coombs, 2015). These codes can…

In 722 B.C.E. Israel was taken over by the Assyrians, a group of people greatly influenced by the Mesopotamian culture of Babylon, but there were about forty thousand survivors. These survivors were sent into exile in Babylonia, which is a time commonly known as the Babylonian Captivity. After the Persians defeated the Babylonians, in 538 B.C.E., King Cyrus the Great allowed the exiled people to return to Jerusalem. At this time, the exiles started redefining their beliefs and practices. This…