[S&W, p. OT 432] By the time of Christ, all Jews accepted the five Books of Moses - the Torah - as Scripture; however, Books, like Esther and Ecclesiastes, were debated. From the Dead Sea Scrolls ...

Hagar returned and bore Avram’s son Ishma’el at the end of Genesis 16. In Genesis 17, Avram is circumcised, and the covenant ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rabbi Joel Padowitz and Rabbi Jonathan Sassen Mosaica Press After spotting an orange moon just over the horizon on a cold New Hampshire Sukkos night, my daughter asked me about its shocking color.

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 ...

"We will dance because they cannot." The Torah is the first five books of the Hebrew Bible. The Torah is Judaism's holiest text, containing its foundational laws and teachings. Simchat Torah is ...