The Torah was given in the wilderness, in a swirl of smoke and fire. According to a midrash , God chose to give the Torah in the middle of nowhere precisely so that no landowner or sovereign could ...

The Torah’s claim about the revelation at Har Sinai also reinforces our belief in Hashem (in addition to our faith in the Torah’s Divine origin). The claim that an entire nation (as opposed to a l ...

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Torah is irrefutably provable but from a much different and original source. 10. The Hanukkah Lights are those that are abundantly overflowing with the light of salvation from, ...

In 2009, a male Orthodox rabbi and a female Reform journalist walked into a Jewish retreat and left as Torah study partners. “Our exchange of ideas at the retreat really sparked a sort of ...

The Torah tells us that they traveled for three days, and could not find water. The symbolism of the word, “מים,” water, is that it could be a reference to Torah.

Simchat Torah, the “Joy of the Law,” marks the year’s completion of the Torah, the five books of Moses, which is read aloud weekly in synagogue. Near the end of Deuteronomy, ...

First and foremost, there is order in reality. Even though it may sometimes seem like chaos is the central feature of existence, the Torah teaches us that reality was created with remarkable order.

On Simchat Torah, the scrolls that contain this literature are removed from the ark, the special place where they are kept at the front of the synagogue.While one or two scrolls are taken out during ...

Simchat Torah is Hebrew for “the joy of Torah.” It is a celebration, often accompanied by dancing and singing, to mark the completion of the annual reading of this section of the Bible.