Sentence examples for torah reader from inspiring English sources

It also hired its first Torah reader, a "Mr. Wendel", and purchased for $100 (today $)—a small piece of land for a cemetery on what is now Rubicon Street.

You approach the gallery and see a Torah scroll open on a readers' table.

Gershon's appointment was controversial; after a background check, the board decided by a 10 9 vote on April 6, 1856, that he had never held the position of cantor in any other congregation, and was therefore not "sufficiently acquainted with the actual requirements to fill said office", and was furthermore not "a competent reader enough to read the Sepher Torah".

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The Torah lists them in full detail, thus repeating itself 12 times and marking this out for many readers as one of the least inspiring of all its numerous chapters: "For the peace offering two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year".

While this form of intentional anachronism reveals Maimon's view of philosophy as a perennial discourse, it was also designed to serve the propagation of modern science and thought among its readers (Maimon himself explains in a similar way Maimonides' decision to open his legal codex, the Mishne Torah, with a summary of Aristotelian first philosophy).

Eilberg -- like the Torah, I believe -- works hard to find a balance between a language of aspiration that tries to stretch readers beyond our normal ways of thinking and acting and ideals so out of reach for most of us that we feel comfortable in not taking her message to heart.

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That the aforesaid Hasan Mr. Gershon although a fair reader as a member of a congregation, yet the committee do not consider him a competent reader enough to read the Sepher Torah.