Torah
What is it?
Traditionally, this refers to the Five Books of Moses (Pentateuch). The individual books describe the creation of the world, the earliest history of the Jews, dietary and hygienic regulations, as well as law and rules of everyday life. According to tradition, its author is Moses, except for the last few verses that describe his own death. Today, it is a book that is read at every service, and its reading takes (according to regulations) a year. It is divided into as many sections as there are Sabbaths in a year, and each Sabbath, one specific part is read.
What does the Torah look like?
While you can easily read the Five Books of Moses in book form, dealing with the entire Torah is somewhat more complicated. It is a scroll of parchment that should be placed in every synagogue and ideally should be removed from its case every Sabbath and read from. A Yad, a pointer, is used for reading from the Torah, which prevents the scroll from being touched by hand. Torahs are spread by transcription by specially trained scribes, whose work is very demanding and responsible.
Why the Torah?
It is one of the most important books of Judaism, and according to scholars, all necessary education can be found in the text. The symbol of the Torah appears in various forms during many holidays, most notably during the celebrations of Simchat Torah.
Large Ashkenazi Torah scroll (ktav Beis Yosef). The scroll comes from Poland around 1900, and after World War II it was used in a synagogue in the USA, as evidenced by the...
Author: John Joseph Owens Copyright 1989 by Baker Book House Company Fourth printing, January 1996 ISBN 0-8010-6713-8
Author: John Joseph Owens Copyright 1991 by Baker Book House Company Third printing, April 1995 ISBN 0-8010-6715-4
Precisely crafted motif of the High Priest with a Hebrew Priests blessing around the perimeter. Material: tin, diameter: 21 cm.
In a gold design, with a relief of Jerusalem, framed by the stars of David and with the head of the table Shiviti.The second (grey) table of Shiviti is written black and yellow...
