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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• Ah, so this is the infallible, immutable Word of God

  
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• Shavuot: All Night LongThe power and excitement of learning...

  
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  Shavuot: All Night Long The power and excitement of learning Torah all night long.
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• “Torah is a commentary on life, and life is a commentary...

  
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  “Torah is a commentary on life, and life is a commentary on Torah. Together they constitute a conversation, each shedding light on the other. Torah is a book not only to be read but to be lived. One of the things that gives us the courage and wisdom to chart our way through the wilderness of life is knowing that ...
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• Enlightenment, Faith and Torah/Scriptures

  
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  Today, many try to modernize various aspects of the basic beliefs of religion. They claim that the Torah/Scriptures is antiquated and needs to be reviewed and updated to be relevant in today’s society. It is indeed sad that the timeless values that have been the cornerstone of countless communities and society have ...
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• What is Shavuot Really About?A wedding celebration between...

  
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  What is Shavuot Really About? A wedding celebration between G-d and the Jewish People -  by   Rabbi Tzvi Sytner
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• ABCs of Shavuot Celebrating our receiving the Torah at Mount Sinai.

  
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  Celebrating our receiving the Torah at Mount Sinai. It is ironic that Shavuot is such a little-known holiday, given that it commemorates the single most important event in Jewish history – the  giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai . Shavuot occurs on the 6th of Sivan, the culmination of a seven-week period, “ ...
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• Love as Law, Law as Love

  
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  By Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks.  On the face of it the connections between the sedra and haftarah of Bemidbar are slender. The first has to do with demography. Bemidbar begins with a census of the people. The haftarah begins with Hosea’s vision of a time when “the number of the children of Israel will [...]
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• The Sixth Day

  
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  Heres our preparatory shiur for Shavuot: Why must we renew our receiving of the Torah every year? What is the Torahs role in the sustenance of creation? Lets get the answers:
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• Applied Pentateuch (TriboElectric Series)

  
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  I would like to give you an example on how you can actually verify some of the Laws outlined in the Pentateuch. In fact, the topic Im going to talk today is most likely familiar to everyone who reads my blog. Im talking about TriboElectric effect, or namely when two materials with different electrostatic potential are ...
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• The 3,000+ Year Old Analytics

  
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  Numbers. No way around it, lots and lots of numbers. Analytics have finally come to roost, but they were in fashion 3,000 years ago or so. Want to know how many people to feed for a dinner? At sea? You need numbers. Try to understand the latest viral video? You need to count very high numbers. Why are ...
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• Weekly Torah Portion: Bamidbar/Shavuot

  
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  G-d knows your name. He’s got your number. Torah is His to share with you. All its paths lead to Him. And all you’ve got to do is ask? No! All you’ve got to do is dedicate your every moment to living a life of Torah, and He will open each and every door. It’s your birthright. This is what we learn from ...
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• Parshat Bamidbar: Showing our Genes

  
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  When Hashem commanded Moses to take a national census and arrange the Israelite camp according to tribes, the Jewish people established their genealogy. Whats the significance?
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• Message From Rabbi Nachman

  
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  When you’re happy, it’s easy to set aside some time to pray with a contrite heart. But when you’re depressed, secluding yourself to speak with G-d is very hard to do. That’s why being happy is so important that you should even force yourself to be happy, if that’s what it takes. (The Empty Chair, [...]
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• Esser Agaroths Top Five Segulos

  
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  ערב ראש החודש השלישי תשע"ג A ways back about a segula vending machine. Pick your segulah, deposit your money, and your good to go. What will they think up next? I have a friend who had the idea of selling shiraim (leftovers) from the Rebbes Shabbos Tish through a vending machine during the ...
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• Approaching Shavuot, and Jerusalem Day

  
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  As we approach the second Pilgrimage Holiday of Shavuot ( Pentecost , in English), which comes seven weeks after Pesach (Passover), the first Pilgrimage Holiday, we look to commemorating the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai, approximately 3,344 years ago, around 1313 B.C.E. In the weeks between Pesach and ...
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• Grace in the wilderness: Parashat Bamidbar (Numbers 1:1-4:20)

  
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  The book of Bamidbar, literally “in the desert” or “in the wilderness,” is a hard book to read. Over and over, plagues break out and thousands are killed. The reason, we are told, is a pronounced lack of faith in God. I found the repeated spilling of Israelite blood difficult, to say the least, until Bible ...
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• Naftali Bennet The Nationalist? Why Is Everyone Still Fooled?

  
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  כ"ט לחודש השני תשע"ג If Bennett is a "nationalist," then Im a leftist. Economics: Naftali "Wheres my kippah?" Bennett Life In Israels Quote of the Day - May 7, 2013   According to the World Bank, Israel was ranked a pitiful 139th in ease of obtaining building permits , ...
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• What Jerusalem Reunification Day Means To Me

  
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  יום ירושלים תשע"ג Jerusalem Reunification Day, 5773/2013 Times Of Israel: Not so blue and white: Pondering Jerusalem Day Yehuda Lapian, May 6, 2013 Despite the fact that I wear a knitted circle on the top of my head, for years Jerusalem day elicited feelings of distaste and aversion in me. ...
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• HERE IS SOME OF THE NEW REVELATIONS- LIVING BOOK UPDATES

  
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  Additions to THE GATE ALL ADDITIONS IN THESE UPDATES ARE “UNEDITED” THIS TIME motivating factors The first power is pleasurable, it is the thrill of new creation. It is revelation of something previously hidden. The second involves work and pain. It contains pain of infinite potentials ...
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• A Gentiles Obligation To Circumcision or Baptism, Shabbat, Pesach, Havdalah, Torah, & Daily Prayer Times According to the Didache, And the Epistle of Barnabas

  
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  English: Manuscript of Didache (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Lets consider some selections from the Didache , and the Epistle of Barnabas to see what they have to say regarding Gentiles obligations to Torah , conversion and the like. As we have seen in the study on the Epistle of Peter to James it is beneficial to ...
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