We are taught that we received both the Oral Torah and the Written Torah on Mount Sinai. This usually is emphasized to enforce the divine validity of the Oral Torah, passed on from generation to ...

"The truth is that the oral Torah was never written down. The meaning of the Torah has never been contained by books" - Abraham Joshua Heschel. Rabbi Moshe Baruch Morgenstern was a descendant of the ...

A careful reading of the Torah’s account of Matan Torah indicates that the Jewish people accepted the Torah not once but twice. First it says: “Moses came and told the people all of God’s words and ...

“See, the Lord your God has placed the land before you. Go up, take possession, as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, promised you. Fear not and do not be dismayed” (Devarim 1,21). As we open up the ...

Basic to Jewish religious teaching is the distinction between “written” Torah — Scripture, the Jewish Bible — and so-called “oral” Torah, a diffuse tradition of legal and homiletic rabbinic commentary ...

Parashat Mishpatim introduces the core legal principles of the Torah. Yet instead of beginning with uplifting commandments like “Love your neighbour” or “Do not put a stumbling block before the blind, ...

PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, UNITED STATES, June 21, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- A new study by Jonathan Brackens of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Law School ...