Important torah text Information
|
Shavuot: The Giving of the Torah
Four local rabbi discuss the holiday of Shavuot...
Opinion: If Passover is the question, Shavuot is the answer
Unlike other Jewish holidays, the Torah does not specify a date for Shavuot; it is celebrated on the 50th day (seven weeks) after Passover.
Kevin Bermeister: The Paradox of the Honey Bee
Honey is the only kosher product that comes out of a non-kosher producer. So what were Israel's greatest scholars and mystical thinkers trying to convey as to uniquely regard it in Jewish law?
Josh Fleet: Parshat Behar-Behukotai: Weekly Torah Portion Summary, Questions, Resources
When you come to the Promised Land, the earth should rest. A Shabbat to God. Sow your fields for six years. Prune your vineyard for six years. Gather the produce for six years. In the seventh year, give it a rest. A Shabbat to God.
PASSOVER AND SHAVUOT: What’s the Question? What’s the Answer?
Unlike other Jewish holidays, the Torah does not specify a date for Shavuot; it is celebrated on the 50th day (seven weeks) after Passover.
Five steps to studying and learning from the Torah
If we study the Torah the way a child plays with a toy -- repeatedly and open to the possibility of discovering something remarkable -- then perhaps we can discover something remarkable.
Valley triplets traverse Jewish milestone with b'not mitzvah
Zoe Berk uses a special pointer to follow the text of the Torah as she practices her role in a Shabbat service while her sisters, Savannah, left, and Karsyn follow along. The triplets will read the Torah and give speeches in a service today at Congregation Rodef Sholom in Youngstown as they become b’not mitzvah, the plural of bat mitzvah. Rabbi Franklin Muller said the service by triplets is a ...
Don’t worry, be happy
Each year on Yom Kippur, we read lines from this week’s Torah portion that teach us about appropriate observance during this High Holy Day. And within this reading we find the defining line, “It shall be a Sabbath of Sabbaths for you, and you shall afflict yourselves [v’initem et nafshotaichem]; it is an eternal decree” (Leviticus 16:31). Although we are not eating or doing anything that affirms ...
Historic Torah to be dedicated at Temple Beth Sholom Sunday
The Temple Beth Sholom Brotherhood’s newly acquired Sefer Torah has plenty of untold stories behind its journey from the city of Pilsen in the Czech Republic to Framingham.
Josh Fleet: Parshat Tazria-Metzora: Weekly Torah Portion Summary, Questions, Resources
If a person is found to have real tzara'at, his clothes should be torn, his hair should be grown and he should act otherwise like a mourner. He should cry out: "I am ritually impure! I am ritually impure!" Over and over.
Source:
© 2012 http://www.hearmeusa.com/torah-text/ Powered By: Niche Dominator