Torah

Pentateuch. Both the Davidic Torah and the Mosaic Torah included a time of celebration, repentance, deliverance, and also salvation. The Mosaic Torah described that God’s chosen people was to lead others to know Him. Similarly, the Davidic Torah describes of the chosen people and a chosen person to lead others to salvation. The Davidic Torah speaks about the coming Messiah. This prophecy assures the people of the time that a Messiah that was promised in the Mosaic Torah, will come. At the same…

The Sabbath is meant to be a day of rest and worship, and it is considered the most important ritual in Judaism. In the Hebrew Bible (Torah), as well as the Christian version, the book of Exodus says, “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy … wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.” According to Jewish scripture, the Shabbat is supposed to take place on the seventh…

Alexandria was the Septuagint, a transliteration of the Torah out of its initial primary language (Hebrew), to Greek. However, this act of acculturation mainly occurred to escalate faithfulness towards the Torah and Jewish religion because the Alexandrian Jews were going to synagogue, but they were losing meaning and understanding in the Torah since they could not understand the language it was being said in, Hebrew. Therefore, they translated the Torah from Hebrew into Greek to grow ethnic…

In this week’s Torah portion, בשלח (Beshalach), the Israelites were wandering through the desert after escaping the Egyptians at the Red Sea. After three days of traveling, the Israelites were unable to find a source of water. They finally came across the waters of the land of מרה (Marah). Despite this discovery, the תורה (Torah) teaches us that the people were unable to drink the water because it was too bitter. “יָּבֹאוּ מָרָתָה וְלֹא יָכְלוּ לִשְׁתֹּת מַיִם מִמָּרָה כִּי מָרִים הֵם—[The…

people have yet to understand that these are only stereotypes. Many Jews were killed in a genocide called the Holocaust in WWII. Adolf Hitler believed that the Jews were responsible for Germany’s Debts in WWI. The holy book for Judaism is The Torah. This is…

The Use and Abuse of the Chosen: A Comparison of Divinities in the Torah and the Odyssey The Torah and Homer’s Odyssey offer two different lenses through which to understand the varying connotations of the word “use.” For different reasons, the Torah’s God and the Greek gods use and test their chosen people. In the Torah, God’s people are chosen to serve Him; in service to Him, they better their lives. God’s people are His focus. He acts more out of love and care for them than out of…

that they believed in one God. Later in time God gave Moses the Torah to present it to the Jewish people. The next one is called "Christianity". Christianity was founded by, Jesus Christ who had claimed to have been the Son of God. Christianity is based on the teaching's of Jesus (which is written in the New Testament) and the Torah. Many Christians belive that they don't have to follow the Torah, but Jesus taught to follow the whole Torah. Jesus was a Jew and was born in Israel. Now for the…

example of one such text from Judaism is the Torah. It is believed that these are the laws of Judaism and they were presented to the prophet Moses on Mt Sinai. These laws are put in place to give…

The history of the Congregation Beth Torah began June 24, 1988; the community was small at first and consisted of a couple dozen people. The first Erev Shabbat worship was held in the home of Dr. David and Cheryl Harris. On July 22, 1988 just over one hundred Jews prayed together at the temporary Jewish Community Center for the first official worship. On September 6, 1988 the community had receive its one hundredth member, and the first president Harold Sader, called a meeting to pass bylaws and…

“And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran. And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep. And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy…