The Talmud tells us: 'The whole of the Torah is for the purpose of promoting peace.
You can't teach them the Torah, you can't talk about Jesus' or what have you.
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As a person reads from the torah scrolls, the relevant text is beamed on a giant screen.
Ice cream led to a shared study of the Torah (the first five books of the Hebrew Bible).
The lighter or smaller the Torah, the heftier the price tag, especially if a fine parchment is used.
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African Americans and Jewish Americans marched together at Selma and Montgomery, with rabbis carrying the Torah as they walked.
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The human-animal analogue is so strong in the Torah that it becomes the basis of the creation of Eve.
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The argument that Israel had once been aliens makes many appearances in the Torah and elsewhere in the Tanakh.
According to the Torah, what would be the country like if intimate affairs would be run strictly by the Torah, with all due respect.
For several months, the Women of the Wall group has held prayers in the female side, wearing traditional shawls and reading aloud from the Torah.
The Torah, for example, was almost certainly not written by Moses.
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And this rebuff came only a couple months after I had to watch my wife my scroll the length of the Torah to get through her Facebook birthday wishes.
Elsewhere in the Torah, in addition to the right to glean for grain in the field, the alien is given the right to glean from grapevines and olive trees.
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Women of the Wall say their central mission is to be able to "wear prayer shawls, pray, and read from the Torah collectively and out loud at the Western Wall".
Treating the Torah as a literary unit sheds much light on this: throughout the rest of the Torah Israelites are reminded that God is their shmr, their Keeper, their Shepherd.
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Our goal should be to develop our special culture based on the Torah and the Prophets as a message and a symbol to the family of nations, to all of entire humanity.
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Men are closely related to animals, especially mammals, in the Torah: Both are created on the sixth day, and both are created from the earth (unlike other living creatures like birds and fish which are created without reference to preexisting material).
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In the past, ultra-orthodox and national-religious Jews in Israel have felt so estranged from the judiciary's largely liberal mainstream that they have set up their own arbitration courts, applying laws from the Torah, Judaism's basic text, sometimes with the tacit sanction of the state.
He acquired the second volume of a 15th-century illuminated manuscript of Jewish laws, the Mishneh Torah. (The first volume had already been taken by the Vatican.) And he kept buying tzedakah boxes.
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The Jewish Torah, however, is inconveniently specific: God told Abraham to circumcise his heirs on the eighth day.
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Next morning, instead of the usual weekly Torah reading, they acted out sections of the text in an entertaining but thought-provoking way.
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The day after the attack, Roger Bismuth, president of Tunisia's Jewish community, disputed the view that the scorching of Torah scrolls had anything to do with anti-Semitism.
Take for instance a Washington Post story last week on Egypt's decision to bar Jewish worshipers from making their annual visit to the grave of Torah sage Rabbi Yaakov Abuhatzeira.
Even more important is Mr Barak's agreement with the ultra-Orthodox party, United Torah Judaism, on new rules for the military conscription of students at yeshivas, or Talmudic colleges.
She now leads the group in an informal Torah study during their monthly meetings.
"The issues with the weight of our Torahs have become mythic, " remarks Philip Welsher, a synagogue member who is an adept Torah lifter and seems to carry even the heaviest scrolls with ease.
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Mr Netanyahu was forced to give up his alliance with the ultra-Orthodox parties: Shas and United Torah Judaism.
He may get 67 if he can yet draw in the five bearded, black-coated members of United Torah Judaism, and perhaps even more, if some of Labour's seven recalcitrants can be persuaded to fall in behind their party leader.
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