The Torah says, “And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet God; and they stood at the lowermost part of the mount (vayityztzvu mitakhtit hahar)” (Exodus 19:17). This verse, when read ...

The legacy of the Elias Meyer Free School and Talmud Torah in Kolkata’s Bowbazaar, which is celebrating its centennial year, ...

The Talmud in Tractate Gittin 57B teaches that the direct descendants of Haman the Amalekite (who lived in ancient Persia about 2,500 years ago) eventually became students of Torah in Bnei Brak in the ...

Lockspeiser: The real magic of Sefaria – and this is the real magic of the Torah tradition ... Rashi or Ramban is talking about this line of Talmud. So what that meant for us is that our ...

So much so that the Talmud concludes: “One who acquires a Hebrew servant is like acquiring a master for himself” (Kiddushin 20a). According to the Torah, the servant must live at the same ...

In her debut book, ‘The Madwoman in the Rabbi’s Attic,’ Gila Fine, a lecturer of rabbinic literature at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, shows how the women in the Talmud may be ...

The Torah contains many laws that guide Jews on how to live a life that pleases God. The Torah contains 613 laws. These are known by Jews as the mitzvot. Jews use the Torah as a guide for living.

This includes tasks such as cooking and driving. Orthodox Jews close Orthodox JewsJews who live by the Torah and rabbinic law (halakhah) and who only accept changes that can be supported by the Torah.