Sentence examples for Sefer Torah from inspiring English sources

Sefer Torah at Glockengasse Synagogue, Cologne, Germany.

The readings take place within the structure of public worship and are incorporated into ceremonies in which the Sefer Torah ("Book of the Torah"), the pentateuchal scroll, is removed from the ark (cabinet) at the front of the synagogue and carried in procession to the reading desk; from it, the pertinent text is chanted by the reader.

A Sefer Torah, or Torah scroll, is the holiest object in Judaism.

He has to be very careful, because even a single missing, damaged or misshapen letter invalidates the entire Sefer Torah.

On September 22, 2013, Beth Elohim celebrated its 150th anniversary and dedicated a new Sefer Torah.

Other scenes were considered blasphemous, including a character's "calling out" God for His perceived cruelty, and the desecration of the play's pivotal Sefer Torah.

The most important of the topically arranged codifications were: the Mishne Torah, Sefer ha-ṭurim, and Shulḥan ʿarukh.

It was a book of the Torah, the Sefer Shemot, which all these people believed to be the defining part of their religious heritage.

Jospe makes a reasoned attempt at a chronology of Falaquera's writings, based in part on Falaquera's listing in Sefer ha-Mevaqqesh, but it is not completely convincing (Torah and Sophia, 31 33).

Religiously more circumscribed than the Pharisees, they rejected the idea of a revealed oral interpretation of the Torah, even though they had their own tradition, the sefer gezerot ("book of decrees" or "decisions").

The Torah requires us to cover the blood, according to the Sefer ha'Chinuch, in order to cultivate compassionate virtue.