Torah

Torah, as the foundation of Judaism, offers a vision of a liberated, meaningful life and the tools by which to achieve it. It lays down the revolutionary idea that true freedom is a state that you reach, not by pursuing your heart's desire, but by channelling your passions towards the service of God and other people.

Although Torah narrowly refers to the Five Books of Moses, traditional Jews use the word Torah to describe the entire body of scriptural and rabbinic literature. In this sense Torah is a very dynamic concept, describing what is essentially an epic conversation that spans thousands of years and the entire globe.

Covering literally every subject under the sun, this oral tradition of Judaism gives us an exhilarating way of looking at everything we do in life, how everything we do has knock-on effects way beyond the immediate visible results. It can and should bring us to a fine tuned sensitivity to everything and everyone around us.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Torah”

• The Uninvited

  
  Your Moral Leader — Authority: 146
  Tuesday night. His assignment was to draw with crayons a picture of his life today. He chose the black crayon which turned out to be purple. On the far left of the 8.5 by 11 inch white paper, he drew a tall stick figure of himself standing on the south-east corner of Pico and Beverwil. Above him, he sketched a ...
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• The Vort - Who put Aramaic in the Torah? - Va’yeitzei

  
  Jewschool — Authority: 479
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• This weeks portion: hatch

  
  Velveteen Rabbi — Authority: 494
  HATCH (VAYETZEI) The question no one asked: what did I want to bring with me from the old hacienda, every rock and bush familiar as my own palm? What talismans of my childhood could I sequester in the saddlebags and sit on like a mother hen brooding over her speckled eggs? Even my husband doesnt understand how ...
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• ModernTribe: Best of the Web Wednesday

  
  ModernTribe's Jewish Life and Style — Authority: 120
  Woman Arrested For Wearing Tallit At Western Wall ( Haaretz ) Table Talk For A Jewish Thanksgiving ( JTA ) Michals Tefillin Sets Up Foundation To Enable Gifted Jewish Women ( Michals Tefillin ) Images of Jews In American Theater ( MyJewishLearning ) Jew Rock Stars Can!!Can, FrumSatire, Matthue Roth ...
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• 3 Clergymen of Different Faiths Attempt to Bridge Interfaith Gap

  
  Newsvine - JCAtom's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 130
  The three say they became close not by avoiding or glossing over their conflicts, but by running straight at them.
  2 days ago

• Rabbi Leib Williger at the Rebbe’s Ohel

  
  ShalomNewYork.com — Authority: 135
  “Rabbi Leib Williger , Rosh Kollel at Torah Vodaas in Brooklyn, was seen Monday at the Rebbe’s Ohel in Queens. On his way out he met the Rebbe’s secretary, Rabbi Leibel Groner . ” ColLive.com
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• THE STORY ON RACIST RABBI YITZHAK SHAPIRA CONTINUES

  
  REAL LIBERAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH — Authority: 130
  I was immediately compelled by the Holy Spirit to reinforce the calls for peace made by an atheist on Facebook in her argument with a fellow atheist of hers. This may strike some who call themselves Christian as an anti-Christ activity, but I assure you that it is not. The female (Alex) is an Iranian. The other one is ...
  3 days ago

• Her Stomach Hurts Over His Political Views

  
  Your Moral Leader — Authority: 146
  "How do you feel about our discussion Saturday night ?" he asks. "Your message said it made you feel scared." "My stomach hurts so much," she says. "I’m really sad. I probably just didn’t want to know." "You didn’t," he says. "It was amazing hearing you speak like that about Judaism," she says. "It was ...
  3 days ago

• The Ark of The Covenant Discovery: The Most Important in Our History?

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 552
       I’m not what you would call an archaeology buff; quite the opposite, in fact.  The notion of sifting through dirt for Indian dishes?  I’m thinking that would just suck.  Now, if it was anything like Indiana Jones… that might be a different story.  But, as you have no doubt seen by now, to some ...
  3 days ago

• “Strength and Dignity are Her Clothing”

  
  Jewschool — Authority: 479
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• “The Samach-Mem Taught the Vilna Gaon Shas and Poskim”

  
  7fatcow.com — Authority: 126
  - The Baal Shemtov
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• Modeh Ani Shalsheles Junior

  
  Schmoozing with Elya & Ellie Katz — Authority: 121
  BS”D Posted in Torah Tagged: Modeh Ani, Shalsheles Junior
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• Toldot The Generations Illustration by Phillip Ratner

  
  IsraelSeen.com — Authority: 121
  ” and he went up and kissed him, saying, “Ah, the smell of my son is like the smell of the fields that the Lord has blessed.“May God give youOf the dew of heaven and the fat of the earth,Abundance of the new grain and wine.Let peoples serve you,And nations bow to you;Be master over [...]
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• Chassidic Parashat Toldot

  
  Shearim — Authority: 144
  B"H Yesterday, a few hundred Haredim were demonstrating outside INTEL in Jerusalem. The chip manufacturer decided to work on Shabbat and the Edah HaCharedit is making another fuss. After all those demonstrations during this summer, I am a kind of sick of the subject and I am not going to report any further about ...
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• G-DCast on the Torah

  
  Christians in Context: from orthodoxy to orthopraxy. — Authority: 425
  So in the past couple weeks Ive had both a friend and member of my family mention Sarah Lefton and her creation, "G-DCAST". Shes a local here in San Francisco, a devout Jew, apparently a master of social networking, and a creative soul. She and her cohorts have created a series of short videos designed to teach ...
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• Inevitable Consequences

  
  The Blog of Garnel Ironheart — Authority: 121
  One of the most troubling narratives in the Torah is this weeks recounting of how Yaakov Avinu swiped his brother Eisavs beracha .  Many other parts of the Torah that seem bothersome to people can often be explained either with an in-depth understanding of the Midrash or an appreciation of the historical context ...
  6 days ago

• This weeks portion: a Torah journey with Rebecca

  
  Velveteen Rabbi — Authority: 494
  This fall Im taking a class called "Torah Journeys" with Rabbi Shefa Gold. Reb Shefa is teaching us her method of intensely personal exegesis, as appears in her excellent collection of parshaniyut, Torah Journeys . Weve each been asked to engage in a "Torah journey" of our own around a Torah text of our choosing; I ...
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• Why is Ahavath Torah Synagogue Inviting Wafa Sultan?

  
  loonwatch.com — Authority: 421
  Wafa Sultan The Ahavath Torah Synagogue in Stoughton, MA has invited anti-Muslim bigot Wafa Sultan who has called Islam and Muslims “backward,” “primitive,” the Qur’an “evil” and whose has been exposed to be a fraud who has lied about her biography and history, (click here to learn more about ...
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• Toldot: Where the Wild Things Are

  
  Frum Satire: Jewish Comedy — Authority: 502
  Well, what would you call it when your brother is a big, red, hairy hunter…and you have to dress up to pretend to be him? Y-Love and his crazy baritone voice give us a take on Toldot from — ok, here comes the inevitable pun — a new generation. Parshat Toldot from G-dcast.com More Torah cartoons at ...
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• Modeh Ani Lifanecha

  
  Schmoozing with Elya & Ellie Katz — Authority: 121
  BS”DPosted in Torah Tagged: Modeh Ani
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