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 ...

Please contact Liverpool University Press for availability about this product In this highly original study, David Gillis demonstrates that the Mishneh torah, Maimonides' code of Jewish law, has the ...

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.

Three times when addressing humanity as a whole – Genesis 1:26-27 and Genesis 5:1-3 in this week’s reading, and Genesis 9:6 in next week’s parashah – the Torah asserts the correlation of ...

Spiritual excellence is irrelevant to the angel of death. And that intensifies the Torah’s tragic ending; a book that in Genesis began with the promise of eternal life for all ends with the ...

So, earlier this year when his synagogue, North Suburban Synagogue Beth El, began offering classes on chanting Torah, the first five books of the Bible, he signed up. On Aug. 10, the 66-year-old ...