Sentence examples for torah reading from inspiring English sources

In 1998, the congregation approved a compromise, allowing the rabbi to perform such ceremonies where both partners are Jewish, but tabling the question of whether such couples could have their relationships blessed during the Sabbath Torah reading.

The synagogue, since the development of Talmudic Judaism, has been supposed a "mikdash me'at," a small temple, substituting for the original — its worship and Torah reading substituting for the putatively cleansing animal sacrifice that Judeans had practiced but that rabbinic exiles had deliberately abandoned.

This notion of compulsory expressions of love appears to surface, too, in this week's Torah reading.

In the Torah reading cycle, this week's Torah portion, Kedoshim, gives us a small taste of what we might receive at Sinai: a fascinating mixture of laws, both ethical and ritual, with the explicit intention of helping us live holy lives.

The Torah reading is rotated among members.

OTHER INTERESTS -- Studying the Torah, reading, following the New York Yankees.

It is generally understood that the Haftarah from the Prophets is meant to cast interpretive light on the week's Torah-reading.

Take Abraham, our storied, shared ancestor, as we find him at the start of our Torah-reading this week, sitting in the opening of his tent, in the heat of the day.

"I will afflict you, according to justice," says the Divine through Jeremiah, in the prophecy paired with our Torah-reading of God and Moses and Pharaoh this week, "and I will not entirely acquit you" (Jeremiah 46:28).

These prophetic accompaniments generally are understood to amplify or expand upon some aspect of our Torah-reading each week - and, in that sense, they are part of the legacy of instruction and interpretation we inherit from our forebears.

For close readers of biblical text, in the spirit of Midrash - of classical rabbinic scriptural interpretation - the line right at the start of this week's Torah-reading is a thought-provoking opening, a classic invitation, as it were, to speculative probing.