Sentence examples for torah from inspiring English sources
noun
A specially written scroll containing the five books of Moses, such as those used in religious services.
- An anonymous donor has provided us with a lovely new Torah.
Both defend their assets, be it settlements in the West Bank, where they form at least 70% of the Jewish population, or the separate Torah education systems they have created, both with state backing.
Clinging to the biblical word alone, Karaites regard skullcaps, phylacteries (little leather boxes containing Torah scrolls), matrilineal descent and non-biblical festivals, such as the Festival of Lights, as pagan accretions.
Lawyers monitoring the cases of three journalists arrested in Cairo late on Sunday have expressed concern over the health of Mohamed Fahmy, a Canadian citizen, who is to be moved from the city's Torah prison to a hospital facility.
In Salonika, according to one account, he married a Torah scroll.It was not until 1648 that Sevi took himself properly speaking to be the messiah.
Crammed into its coaches, Torah college students brushed cheek-by-jowl against veiled Muslim girls.
So too did Jewish Home, which as a party of religious Zionism values military service as well as Torah study.Yet the generals want the ultra-Orthodox in their ranks no more than the ultra-Orthodox want to join up.
Rabbi Noson Leiter, who runs a group called Torah Jews for Decency, agreed, explaining on the radio that God had targeted the southern end of Manhattan because it was "one of the national centres of homosexuality".
For example, traditional Muslim teaching stresses those passages in the Koran which affirm the Christian Gospel and the Hebrew Torah as valid revelations of God and paths to salvation.
But he claims credit for exposing the hollowness of Mr Sharon's talk of "painful concessions for peace".The surprise was Mr Sharon's decision to leave out the two ultra-Orthodox parties, Shas (11) and United Torah Judaism (5), both longtime Likud allies, both howling treachery.
But that seems unlikely given the scale of Mr Netanyahu's victory.With nearly all the vote counted, the group of right-wing and religious parties supporting Mr Netanyahu (Likud, Habayit Hayehudi, Yisrael Beiteinu, Shas and United Torah Judaism) had 57 seats - close to 61 seats needed for a majority in the Knesset.
After his two haredi coalition partners, Shas and United Torah Judaism, threatened to vote against the budget, he agreed to slip a bill through to provide 1,100 shekels a month (just over $300) to yeshiva students over 24 years of age, with three children or more, a non-working wife, no home of their own and no car.
