Torah

strictest commitment to the traditional beliefs and traditions of all the Jewish observances. It originated in response to the Jewish practice introduced by the Reform movement. Orthodoxy asserts that both the The Torah, which is the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, and the Oral Torah, which is the interpretive Talmud are authoritative regarding observance and Jewish doctrine, instructing modern Orthodox Jews to maintain and support ancient Jewish law. The word Judaism derives from Judah, one

religious original commentary in the Mishneh Torah. It is highly regarded as a major philosophical text in truth, however it will be better and more correct to call it a theological treatise. It seeks to reconcile the Jewish faith and religion with the challenges against it from philosophic and scientific texts at the time, specifically the system of Aristotle and his followers. A great deal of its contents overlap with much of the Commentary and the Mishneh Torah. As in Maimonides’ other works, he provides

later spread the word of God. The Ten Commandments are a part of the Hebrew Bible, The Torah. The Ten Commandments is also known as The Decalogue. The Ten Commandments are only a small portion of the Torah but according to Lesley, They are the most important part (pg nbr). The Ten Commandments are listed twice in the Torah. They can be found in both The Book of Exodus and The Book of Deuteronomy. In the Torah, the Ten Commandments are organized by the first five commandments are related to God and

Jewish nation that rose up in response to Moses’ leadership and contribution of the Torah. Over 3,000 years later, Theodor Herzl’s pamphlet “The Jewish State” sparked the nationalist movement of Zionism that eventually led to the formation of the state of Israel. The immense impact written works can have on the development of nations and eventually states is exhibited through the influence of Moses’ writing of the Torah and Herzl’s creation of “The Jewish State” on

known as RaMBaM was a scholar of the Middle Ages who decoded, translated and created major Jewish texts, which much of Judaism has foundations on. Through his works, namely the Commentary of the Mishnah, the Guide for the Perplexed, and the Mishneh Torah, Maimonides aided the Jewish community through the clarifications of beliefs, the challenge of questioning one’s beliefs, maintaining relevances to the Jewish community and shaped interactions within and between Judaism and other cultures and religions

continuously uphold this covenant and in order to maintain the reciprocal relationship with God, as he freed them from slavery. In addition, Jews also undergo the ritual of Brit Milah as a sign of the covenant that has been formed with God, in the Torah. Brit Milah is often performed on males only (however some cultures may perform it on females as well) on the child’s eighth day of life (Rich, 2011). Brit Milah is essentially a physical indication of adherents upholding covenant and drawing themselves

any of these commandments are considered a sin and that the Torah, not personal belief or conscience, is the judge of action (Einstein & Kukoff, 1989, p. 152). The other basic belief of the Orthodox movement is that God gave Moses the whole Torah at Mount Sinai, including the Written Torah (the first five books of the Bible) and the Oral Torah (the oral tradition interpreting and explaining the Written Torah). They believe that the Torah is true and that it has came down to modern times intact and

(OC) and the New Covenant (NC) is, for many, a debatable issue. The main topics for these debates are on salvation coming from the OC Law (Mosaic Law/ Torah) that one must “work” to accomplish, or salvation coming from faith in the NC alone. Many theological genres have sprouted up throughout the year’s arguing the relevance of the OC Laws (Jewish Torah), and the “Law of the Spirit” as Paul states in Romans 8:2. Because of these different views, various doctrine have become scattered throughout the

Passover, in the Torah known as Pesach. Some people believe they know more about this holiday than they actually do. The Torah tells us about the deeper meaning of Passover, and the story behind its meaning. If it weren’t for the Torah, we wouldn’t know that the actual meaning behind it is because God “passed over” the houses of the Jews when he was told to slay the first born of Egypt. We also wouldn’t know why on this holiday we only eat matzah, the unleavened bread, but the Torah tells us the story

week’s Torah portion. They usually combine the dialogue with Chassidic thought. For example, this week’s parsha relates