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Why was the Torah named Torah?
The word Torah means 'Teachings'.
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What is the Torah?
The term Torah (Hebrew: תּוֹרָה, "Instruction"), also known as the Pentateuch, refers to the Five Books of Moses - the entirety of Judaism's founding legal and ethical religious texts. A...
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Why do you have the Torah?
The Torah is a "book" (there is 1 Torah but it is split into 5 books) of the Jewish peoples history and laws
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What is in the torah?
The Torah contains 5845 verses, including a recounting of the Creation and the Flood, how the Israelites came to be, and hundreds of laws and moral instructions.
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What is the difference between the sefer Torah and the Torah?
A Sefer Torah is the Torah text written by someone properly trained on a certain type of parchment and a certain kind of black ink. The Sefer Torah is hand written and costs tens of thousands of...