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”

 

• Day Four: Make Yourself Small

  
  Universal Torah Network — Authority: 106
  Prophetic Torah – with Rabbi Avraham Sutton Weekly series. The Return of Prophecy Concerning the two great lights created on the fourth day, G-d introduces a cosmic-wide principle: in order to achieve greatness, one must first diminish oneself. Dedication: Dedicated to Dr. & Mrs. Don Specht ...
  15 hours ago

• On Conservativism

  
  Bitter Harvest — Authority: 120
  Another word word for conservativism is “ separatism ”. If you look at the world today, you see both the world from bygone years, and the world of tomorrow. For all through human history there have been those forces,  in the human condition, that have sought to maintain a kind of singularity within various ...
  1 day ago

• Guide to Afghanistan: The Adventures of a KL-ite (Part 8 – Lending the Afghans a hand)

  
  FAT BIDIN MEDIA — Authority: 99
  This week is part 8 of my multimedia documentary, Guide To Afghanistan: The Adventures of a KL-ite , which includes video, still photos an text. As you would know, this is concurrent with the 10-part feature on The Malaysian Insider website, of which you can view part 8 here: Lending the Afghans a hand ...
  3 days ago

• In Police Training, a Dark Film on U.S. Muslims

  
  Question Everything — Authority: 126
  nytimes.com/MICHAEL POWELL/23 Jan 2012 Ominous music plays as images appear on the screen: Muslim terrorists shoot Christians in the head, car bombs explode, executed children lie covered by sheets and a doctored photograph shows an Islamic flag flying over the White House. “This is the true agenda of much of ...
  1 week ago

• Day Two: Tears in Heaven

  
  Universal Torah Network — Authority: 106
  Prophetic Torah – with Rabbi Avraham Sutton Weekly series. The Return of Prophecy Tears and discord are introduced by G-d on the second day of creation. It’s all for His greater glory – and to shape a world that will accommodate man and his innate free-will. Dedication: Dedicated in honor of ...
  1 week ago

• Parshat Vaera: Dont Forget a Favor

  
  Lazer Beams — Authority: 412
  Hashem teaches Moshe Rabbenu an important lesson in basic gratitude: dont do the slightest harm to anyone or anything that ever did you a favor, as youll see in our minilesson about this weeks Torah portion: 
  1 week ago

• Roxy Refreshments – Revelstoke & Retallack

  
  broblog — Authority: 129
  Roxy team trip to Revelstoke, BC and Retallack Lodge, BC. Featuring Torah Bright, Erin Comstock, Kjersti Buaas, and Aimee Fuller.
  2 weeks ago

• Book Review: Torah Umadda: The Encounter of Religious Learning and Worldly Knowledge in the Jewish Tradition

  
  The WebYeshiva Blog — Authority: 107
    Rabbi Jeffrey Saks discussed the 20th anniversary edition of TORAH UMADDA: The Encounter of Religious Learning and Worldly Knowledge in the Jewish Tradi tion (Koren/Maggid Books) with the author Rabbi Norman Lamm , Chancellor of Yeshiva University, about the book’s enduring relevance for Jewish life, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Just breathe

  
  Articles — Authority: 133
  In this week’s Torah portion, we meet a frustrated and dejected Moses. God’s reluctant leader of the Jewish people cannot convince Pharaoh to free the Israelites from bondage, no matter how emphatically he proclaims, “Let my people go.” Pharaoh doesn’t budge; in fact, things get worse for the people each ...
  2 weeks ago

• A Weekly Carnival

  
  Midlife Singlemum — Authority: 109
  Fact one: I live in a quadrant of roads (with a couple of tendrils) that contains two primary schools, a high school, a teachers training college, an art college, a residential student year-programme school, and two purpose built synagogues. And each of the afore mentioned buildings also houses a synagogue on ...
  2 weeks ago

• Torah Talk! Parashat Va’era (Exodus 6:2-9:35)

  
  Your Moral Leader — Authority: 426
  I discuss the weekly Torah portion with Rabbi Rabbs  Mondays at 7:00 pm PST on my cam and on YouTube . Facebook Fan Page. This week we study Parashat Va’era (Exodus 6:2-9:35) .
  2 weeks ago

• Weekly Torah Portion: Va’era

  
  Universal Torah Network — Authority: 106
  G-d will not be denied. He will redeem His people and His voice will be heard, even in the cacophony of the frogs croaking from inside the bellies of Pharaoh and his crew. Va’era (Exodus 6:2-9:35) Parashat Va’era is read on Shabbat: Tevet 26, 5772/January 21, 2012 Temple Institute Links: Program Link ...
  2 weeks ago

• tehillim - if i forget you jerusalem

  
  Eretz Yisrael - Tumblr — Authority: 131
  tehillim - if i forget you jerusalem
  2 weeks ago

• Overnight music video

  
  Israel Matzav — Authority: 619
  Sorry folks - I am totally wiped out, and had to work and go to a wedding tonight, so I took several hours off from here.This is Shloime Taussig with Ashrei Mi (Happy is he whose work is in Torah).Lets go to the videotape.
  2 weeks ago

• A THANK YOU LETTER FROM AN APPRECIATIVE TORAHMATE

  
  Oorah Blog — Authority: 107
  Dear Rabbi Schonblum, During the course of my life I have had brief interactions with people and organizations that have had a significant influence on me. Oorah (and you) is a perfect example. Last Spring we spoke about the importance of children’s Jewish education. Shortly after, I reexamined the course I had ...
  2 weeks ago

• Guide to Afghanistan: The Adventures of a KL-ite (Part 6 – Skateboarding in Skateistan!)

  
  FAT BIDIN MEDIA — Authority: 99
  This week is part 6 of my multimedia documentary, Guide To Afghanistan: The Adventures of a KL-ite , which includes video, still photos an text. As you would know, this is concurrent with the 10-part feature on The Malaysian Insider website, of which you can view part 6 here: Skateboarding in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Did Rav Ahron Kotler destroy Daas Torah? (albeit unwillingly and unknowingly)

  
  CIRCUS TENT - ???? ?????? — Authority: 411
  RAK (left) with the Kopycznitzer Rebbe, z t" l , in Lakewood. (Well, I guess in America, is what were talking about here. In Eretz Yisroel the dynamics are so different that we cannot compare nor discuss it here. Meaning, that RAK is responsible for the situation in the US, even if the piece youre about to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Jewbilation – The Sound of Shabbat

  
  IsraelSeen.com — Authority: 115
  We are lightening things up a bit today at israelseen. With all the speculation about the “end of days” we thought it would be nice to enjoy this sweet  music video about Shabbat.   www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7f00_wBxPM  
  2 weeks ago

• This Week’s Torah Portion – Parashat Va’era (Exodus 6:2-9:35)

  
  Your Moral Leader — Authority: 426
  I discuss the weekly Torah portion with Rabbi Rabbs  Mondays at 7:00 pm PST on my cam and on YouTube . Facebook Fan Page. This week we study Parashat Va’era (Exodus 6:2-9:35) . * It’s good to get along with people but sometimes doing the right thing puts you on the outs with almost everyone. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Shabbat Vaera (Ex. 6:2-9:25)

  
  The Edible Torah — Authority: 98
  Courtesy of Julie Seltzer and MyJewishLearning.com In this weeks portion Pharaoh gives us a good role model for the phrase “slow learner”. One simple request – let the Israelites go. One simple consequence – or else God is going to get medieval on your country. Each plague was saying the same thing in a ...
  2 weeks ago

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