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• List of capital crimes in the Torah — According to the Torah (or Mosaic Law), these are the offenses which may merit the death penalty in a Jewish major court of 23 judges.# Murder, applies to Noachides as well (, , , , ) # Sacrificing to gods other than God alone (, ) # Adultery (,… …   Wikipedia

• Torah study — is the study by Jewish people of the Torah, Hebrew Bible, Talmud, responsa, rabbinic literature and similar works, all of which are Judaism s religious texts. Ideally within Judaism it is done for the purpose of the mitzvah ( commandment ) of… …   Wikipedia

• Torah Umadda — (Hebrew: תּוֹרָה וּמַדָּע, Torah and secular knowledge ) is a philosophy of Modern Orthodox Judaism, concerning the interrelationship between the secular world and Judaism, and in particular between secular knowledge and Jewish knowledge. The… …   Wikipedia

• Torah — • Signifies first direction, instruction , as, for instance, the instruction of parents, or of the wise Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Torah     Torah      …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Torah redactor — The Torah Redactor (R) is, according to the Documentary Hypothesis (DH), the figure who assembled hypothetical source texts of the Torah mdash;the Deuteronomist text (D), the Priestly text P, and JE (an earlier joining of the Jahwist text [J] and …   Wikipedia

• The Bayles Torah — (Hebrew: בּיילעס תּוֹרָה) was the first Torah in Alaska.It was given to Sam Bayles by his father, the Rabbi Ephraim Bayles, in Lithuania.The Torah arrived in Nome, Alaska in the Summer of 1900.Sam Bayles gave the Torah to his brother, Isadore Ike …   Wikipedia

• The Protocols of the Elders of Zion — ( Protocols of the wise men of Zion , Library of Congress s Uniform Title; ru. Протоколы сионских мудрецов , or Сионские протоколы ; see also other titles) is an antisemitic tract alleging a Jewish and Masonic plot to achieve world domination. It …   Wikipedia

• The Living Torah and Nach — The Living Torah is a 1981 translation of the Torah by Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan, published by Moznaim publishers. It was and remains a highly popular translation, and was reissued in a Hebrew English version with haftarot for synagogue use.Rabbi Kaplan …   Wikipedia

• The Bible Code (book) — The Bible Code is a best selling controversial book by Michael Drosnin, first published in 1997. A sequel, The Bible Code II , was published in 2002 and also reached best seller status.Drosnin describes an alleged Bible code , in which messages… …   Wikipedia

• Torah — To rah, Tora To ra, n.; pl. {Toroth}. [Heb. t[=o]r[=a]h.] (Jewish Lit.) (a) A law; a precept. A considerable body of priestly Toroth. S. R. Driver. (b) Divine instruction; revelation. Tora, . . . before the time of Malachi, is generally used of… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• The Bible and slavery — The Bible contains several references to slavery.The Hebrew Bible does not promote slavery, but neither does it condemn it. [ [http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/judaism/history/slavery 1.shtml Slavery and the Torah] bbc.co.uk] Slavery was… …   Wikipedia