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”

• Women should not learn torah their job is to cook and clean

  
  Frum Satire: Jewish Comedy — Authority: 500
  This is a lengthier version of the Vos Iz Neias comment of the day , due to the fact that the comments listed below are a great way to welcome new folks into the orthodox fold. I used to wonder why onb earth Vos Iz Neias would post articles that don’t really pertain to frummies like the following one about modern ...
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• The Last Word

  
  Fantastical flights of fancy & fabled fiction — Authority: 103
  CHAPTER THREE  FOOTSTEPS IN THE SANDS OF TIME  SUSAN MADE IT to the airport intact and with time to spare. Jerry had behaved himself only because, as always, the traffic to JFK was backed up and he couldn’t speed along in the white-knuckle manner he preferred. Susan had even let him unload her bags, and ...
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• 730-year-old Torah scroll @ Sotheby’s

  
  ShalomNewYork.com — Authority: 130
  “The oldest complete Spanish Torah scroll will be up for sale at Sotheby’s Judaica auction on November 24. The scroll, the only Spanish Torah to include the kabbalistic traditions of curved letters, has an estimated worth of $300,000-$500,000. The scroll is written in typical 13th-to-14th century Central Northern ...
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• More from the Poetic Mystic-Rav Kook

  
  Godssecret's Weblog — Authority: 127
  Out of Brazen Libertarianism will emerge the Beloved Yolk. Golden chains will be woven and arise out of the poetry of the free thinkers and luminous returning to GOD will also arise from the secular literature.   Libertarianism ...
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• Keeping Faith with God

  
  Fr. Ted's Blog — Authority: 127
  This is the 4th and final blog in a series  which began with  “ Through the Law, I died to the Law: St. Paul and Torah .”  The immediate preceeding blog was Keeping Torah: Examples of Faith.     In these blogs I have been reflecting on St. Paul’s comment, “ For I through the law died to the law that I ...
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• Playing with Avraham Avenu and Sarah Imenu

  
  Tripletly Blessed — Authority: 119
  The parshiyot for the past two weeks really flow together and we used the same art project for both. We made paper dolls of Avraham Avenu, Sarah Imenu and the malachim. (Abraham, Sarah and the angels.)Week before last we sat at the table with an assortment of felt, glue, pencils and paper doll shapes and a chumash. As ...
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• Toward Evening

  
  Shirat Devorah — Authority: 479
  "Yitzchak went out toward evening to pray in the field" [Chayei Sarah 24:63]It was at that time, Chazal teach us, that Yitzchak instituted the Minchah (afternoon) prayer. Chazal state: "The prayers were instituted by the Forefathers [Berachos 26a]: Avraham instituted Shacharis; Yitzchak Minchah; and Yaakov Maariv.The ...
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• Ramban on the Torah: Angels, Visions, and Reality

  
  The WebYeshiva Blog — Authority: 123
  Rambam (Moreh Nevuchim 1:49) conceives of angels as separate intellects, lacking all physicality, employed by God in His construction and maintenance of the universe. No human can see an angel since angels do not take physical from. Therefore, he interprets all biblical stories where a human encounters an angel as ...
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• Spiritual wisdom of a Gifted Mystic Poet

  
  Godssecret's Weblog — Authority: 127
  Rav Abraham Isaac Kook     From a distant world And from a distant world, full of illuminations, The suns there are as broad as the ocean, And the stars, like the light of our sun, On the face of the sapphire stone, …there. The ...
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• Chassidic Parashot: Vayera

  
  Shearim — Authority: 439
  B"H The latest chassidic Parashot on VAYERA: http://ladaat.net/gilionot.php Among others: Toldot Avraham Yitzchak  , Boyan , Yeshivat Ohr Sameach (litvish) in English , Dei Chochmah Lnafshechah in English , Parasha Partner in English , The Edah HaCharedit ...
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• Art: A Torah Scribe Pushes the Parchment Ceiling

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  In Hebrew the word for Julie Seltzer’s arcane profession is soferet; she’s a scribe, a Hebrew calligrapher who writes sacred texts on parchment.
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• PunkTorah Friday

  
  ModernTribe's Jewish Life and Style — Authority: 119
  Shabbat Shalom from PunkTorah and ModernTribe! This week features Parshat Vayeira, Prayer Before Meals (Ha-Motzi) and a video on the virtues of Southern Judaism. Parshat Vayeira Prayer Before Meals (Ha-Motzi) New Yorkers Have It Easy http://www.moderntribe.com
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• To The Matterhorn [Snap Judgment]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 825
  [Saas-Fee, Switzerland; November 5. Image via Getty ] Australias Torah Jane Bright competes to win the womens half-pipe Snowboarding FIS World Cup final event on November 5, 2009 in Saas-Fee, southern Switzerland. Bright won the event ahead of Chinas Xuetong Cai, second and Frances Sophie Rodriguez, third. AFP ...
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• Vayeira: Runaways

  
  Frum Satire: Jewish Comedy — Authority: 500
  There’s a lot of stories in Vayeira. Child sacrifice (well, almost), strange visits from strange figures who eat milk and meat together, and a whole bunch of complicated relationship stuff. It’s not surprising most people forget about a little baby named Ishmael — and of a really odd scene that happens by a ...
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• The Last Word

  
  Fantastical flights of fancy & fabled fiction — Authority: 103
  INTER ALIA  ‘TROJAN HORSE’  JEDBURGH LEANED BACK from the console, put his feet up on the edge of the desk, and sighed heavily. He was irritated for all the wrong reasons and couldn’t quite put his finger on why. There were still a number of little niggling doubts that raised questions, which, quite frankly, ...
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• Keeping Torah: Examples of Faith

  
  Fr. Ted's Blog — Authority: 127
  This is the 3 rd blog in a series in which I am reflecting on St. Paul’s comment, “For I through the law died to the law that I might live to God”  (Galatians 2:19).   The first blog was entitled, “ Through the Law, I died to the Law: St. Paul and Torah .”  For St. Paul the failure of the Torah was that ...
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• World Cup Half Pipe winners in Saas Fee

  
  xtremesport4u — Authority: 128
  After the big air event last week in London the LG Snowboard FIS World Cup moved to Saas Fee in Switzerland where the usual suspects were evident on the podium. Torah Bright from Australia demonstrated impressively why she definitely belongs to the world’s best freestyle ladies. She amazed the spectators and ...
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• Akeda The binding of Issac illustration by Phillip Ratner

  
  IsraelSeen.com — Authority: 119
  This illustration is courtesy of International Artist Phillip Ratner. This is one of a series that Israel Seen has been fortunate to receive from the artist for exclusive internet use.  This is one of the major moments in this weeks Torah, Bible reading.Enjoy.Tags: Art, Blogs, Photo Gallery
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• Shabbat Shalom

  
  Shearim — Authority: 439
  B"H The weather has "recovered" and the sun has been out again for the past few days. As usual, I am going to Jerusalem this afternoon in order to spend Shabbat there. What amazes me most about this weeks Parasha Vayera are the opinons of the Rambam (Maimonides) and the Ramban (Nachmanides) that the entire ...
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• Bright and Kokubo Win Halfpipe World Cup in Saas-Fee

  
  SNOWBOARD MAGAZINE - Products, Places & Personalities — Authority: 143
  Kevin Pearce Photos: © FIS-Florian Ruth Australias Torah Bright and the Japans Kazuhiro Kokubo have won the second Halfpipe Competition of the LG Snowboard FIS World Cup 2009/2010 against the world elite of the freestyle talents. Kokubo was on fire in the perfect shaped super pipe of Saas-Fees (SUI) freestyle ...
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