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| | Mishnah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Mishnah (Hebrew משנה, "repetition") is a major source of rabbinic Judaism's religious texts. | | | Nearly all of the Mishnah is written in Hebrew, except a few verses, which are written in Aramaic. | | | Also noteworthy is the Mishnah's lack of citation of a scriptural basis for its laws. |
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| | Encyclopedia: Torah |
| | All Torah scrolls are stored in the holiest part of the synagogue in the Ark known as the "Holy Ark" (×Ö²×¨×•Ö¹× ×§Ö¹×“×©× aron kodesh in Hebrew.) A synagogue or synagog (from Greek συναγωγη, transliterated sunagoge, place of assembly literally meeting, assembly) is a Jewish house of prayer and study. | | | Torah (תורה) is a Hebrew word meaning "teaching," "instruction," or "law." It is the central and most important document of Judaism revered by Jews through the ages. | | | Christianity accepts the books of the Torah as Scripture, but does not believe that all the Mosaic laws apply directly to Christians under the new covenant (or New Testament). |
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| | Mishnah - Torah/Bible learning, for the Jewish Neshomah/soul |
| | It is customary to learn portions of the Mishnah in memory of the departed, as a source of merit for the soul of the deceased. | | | One of the principal reasons why the Mishnah is studied in memory of the deceased, the Rabbi's teach is the following: The Hebrew letters of Mishna and of soul (Neshama) consist of the same Hebrew text. | | | Thus referencing that the soul (Neshama) and the Mishnah are attached on a spiritual level. |
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| | Mishneh Torah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Mishneh Torah ("Repetition of the Torah") is an appellation originally used for the Biblical book of Deuteronomy. | | | The in-depth study of Mishneh Torah underwent a revival in Lithuanian Judaism in the late 19th century. | | | The Mishneh Torah or Yad ha-Chazaka is a code of Jewish law by one of the most important Jewish authorities, Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon, better known as Maimonides or by the Hebrew abbreviation RaMBaM (usually written "Rambam" in English). |
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| | Exquisite Corpse - A Journal of Letters and Life |
| | Torah, according to Jewish theology, derives from heaven, which is both the name of the celestial creation and a name of haShem (literally, "the Name," a rabbinic reference to God). | | | In Jewish thought, Torah corresponds to the totality and is, after all, the eternal word of God. | | | Oral Torah, the utterances of sages concerned with understanding, expressing, and developing the intellectual and practical tradition of Judaism, derives from the existence of Torah. |
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| | l e a r n @ j t s PARASHAH Ki Tissa 5755 |
| | The Mishnah is not a commentary on the Torah; nor does it regularly seek to ground its definitions of what is permitted and forbidden on verses from Scripture. | | | It is the theological meaning of Shabbat that we learn from the Torah (witness the culmination of the first account of creation or the reasons given for its observance in the two versions of the Ten Commandments) and not the proscriptions and rituals that set it apart. | | | The lack of interfacing between the Torah and Mishnah triggered a never-ending effort by the generations to follow to connect them exegetically by identifying possible scriptural sources for mishnaic law. |
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http://learn.jtsa.edu/topics/parashah/5755/kitissa.shtml
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| | The Writings of Rabbinic Judaism |
| | Mishnah (the name means "repetition," a subliminal argument that the ideas in it are an oral tradition stretching back for a millennium) is an instance of a nifty new idea that the Rabbis got from the Greeks — categorization. | | | Their unique religious doctrine was to posit the existence of a second Torah, complementary to the written one. | | | This was a theology in which the High Priests were the center of the religion, and the source of government power. |
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| | Torah is built through students; Avodah is related to Din,}{\cs15\i0\super \chftn {\footnote \pard\plain \s22\nowidctlpar\widctlpar{\*\pn \pnlvlcont\ilvl0\ls0\pnrnot0\pndec }\adjustright \fs20\cgrid {\cs15\super \chftn }{ Their parshios are next to each other in chumash to teach us that the Sanhhedrin meets in the lishcas hagazah near the mizbeach. | | | RASHI in the first posuk of the Torah says the word Breshis stands for bshvil (for) reshis, and goes on to show that the Jewish people, Torah and korbanos (Avodah) are all called reshis. | | | RAV SHLOMO KLUGER says Moshe got the Torah at Har Sinai, and not in heaven, perhaps because he needed to understand it with a human intellect, and not with a divine one. |
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| | Online Journal Orality, Textuality and the Living Experience of the Oral Torah |
| | Note that the Torah command that clearly does exist in Shemot 12:15 is understood as the nullification of hametz by the Talmud and Medieval commentaries. | | | The counterpoise between the written and oral traditions is fundamental to the Rabbinic notion of Israel’s covenant with God (Gittin 60b). | | | Were I forced to choose between knowledge of God and knowledge of text as the goal of my teaching, I would choose knowledge of God. |
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| | Judaism 101: Torah |
| | But the word "torah" can also be used to refer to the entire Jewish bible (the body of scripture known to non-Jews as the Old Testament and to Jews as the Tanakh or Written Torah), or in its broadest sense, to the whole body of Jewish law and teachings. | | | In its most limited sense, "Torah" refers to the Five Books of Moses: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. | | | In addition to the written scriptures we have an "Oral Torah," a tradition explaining what the above scriptures mean and how to interpret them and apply the Laws. |
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| | Introduction of Rabbi Yosef Kapach |
| | The primary impetus for the composition of the Mishneh Torah was Maimonides’ zealousness for God and his people. | | | Born in Yemen in 1917, he used ancient manuscripts to restore the text of the Mishneh Torah. | | | As Rashi explained this passage, there are many individual opinions in the Mishnah which are not the law, and this passage relates particularly to the Mishnah. |
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http://www.chayas.com/rabbi_yosef_kapa.htm
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| | A Jewish God-fearer in a room full of Christians: Oral Torah - part 2 |
| | He said that he came "not to destroy the Torah, but to fulfill it", which is a Hebrew idiom for not coming to misinterpret Torah, rather coming to properly interpret the Torah, to place it on firmer footing. | | | There is much to be learned from "the studies" (Talmud), and I would expect that God never intended the Church to stray so far away from the Jews as they have since the 1st century, especially if they are to properly understand the words and actions of Jesus. | | | God gave Israel two Torahs - one written, laying out the teachings, and one oral, giving instruction on its application. |
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http://pastordraven.blogspot.com/2004/09/oral-torah-part-2.html
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| | USCJ: Study Material Introduction |
| | Although the Mishnah is not a direct commentary Torah, many of its passages contain exegesis or midrash on verses from the Torah. | | | Often, the details not explained in the Torah are filled in by the Oral Torah, which according to Jewish tradition was also given on Mount Sinai. | | | First of all, it is not entirely proper to say that the Mishnah was written. |
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| | The Hebrew Roots Movement |
| | Although it is claimed by the Lubavitch, Nazarene and Hebraic Roots Movements that the source of the 7 Noahide Laws is the Torah (Genesis-Deuteronomy), the evidence of history proves that the Talmud and Mishnah are derived from Babylonian traditions that Jesus said contradicted and nullified the teaching of Scripture. | | | This report was written to demonstrate that the sources used by the Hebraic Roots Movement (Talmud, Mishnah, Midrash, Halakah and Haggada) evolved into and purvey the same occult teachings as the Kabbalah/Zohar, the preeminent compendium of Jewish mysticism. | | | Likewise, the "root" of the Hebraic Roots Movement is not the written Torah given to Moses, but rather the occult traditions adopted from the mystery religions of ancient Babylon. |
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http://www.watch-unto-prayer.org/HRM.html
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| | Vedibarta Bam: Chapter Four |
| | As one who experienced the difference between studying Torah with absolute faith in Hashem and also studying Torah with an improper approach, it was most suitable for him to accentuate the "yeled" approach over the "zakein" approach to the study of Torah. | | | For instance, when a renowned Torah personality visits a community and is invited to deliver a Talmudic discourse, these people like to show off their knowledge and attempt to stump the lecturer. | | | One who does not follow Torah precepts and who does not fulfill mitzvot is, in a sense, desecrating Torah. |
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http://www.sichosinenglish.org/books/vedibarta-bam/avot-4.htm
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| | Mishnah Megillah Chap 3 |
| | The mishnah is demonstrating the various grades of holiness. | | | The following are accessories of holiness: large sacks for the keeping of scrolls of the Scripture in, tefillin and mezuzah, a mantle for a sefer Torah, and a tefillin bag and tefillin straps. | | | Every mishmar was accompanied by a representative layman called anshe ma'amad, to stand by and recite prayers during the sacrificial ceremonies. |
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| | Mishnah Sukkot 2 |
| | The commentaries say that mishnah 11 is referring to the repetition of Psalm 118 where the last nine verses are repeated. | | | In the same way, the Torah commands that "all Jews" dwell in booths for the seven days of the festival. | | | After the destruction of the Temple, Rabban Yochannen ben Zakkai ordained that the lulav should be used in the provinces the whole seven days in remembrance of the Temple; and that on the whole of the Day of Waving, it should be forbidden. |
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| | Bible and Mishneh Torah for All - Jews and Gentiles / Mechon Mamre |
| | Our HTML Mishneh Torah alone in a ZIP in Hebrew or our Mishneh Torah with links to a complete included Hebrew Bible in a larger ZIP in Hebrew | | | Our Torah 101 encyclopedia of basic information about Torah observance, Jewish practices, holidays, people, and beliefs in a single ZIP in English | | | Our Bibles and Mishneh Torah for the Pocket PC |
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| | Introduction - Preface - Mishneh Torah |
| | 22 All of the Torah scholars mentioned here were the great men of the generations: some of them were heads of Torah colleges, some were exilarchs, and some were members of great sanhedria. Besides them in each generation were thousands and tens of thousands who learned from them and with them. | | | 19 Among the greatest Torah scholars who received from Rav and Shemuel were Rav Huna, Rav Yehudah, Rav Nahman, and Rav Kahana; and among the greatest Torah scholars who received from Rabbi Yohanan were Rabbah grandson of Hanah, Rabbi Ame, Rabbi Ase, Rav Dime, and Rabbon. | | | 45 The total number of Torah commandments that are obligatory for all generations is 613: 248 of them are positive commandments, whose mnemonic is the number of parts in the human body; 365 of them are negative commandments, whose mnemonic is the number of days in the solar year. |
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| | Web Directory: Hebrew Old Testament |
| | Also on the Snunit site are the Hebrew texts of the Targum Onkelos, Mishnah, Tosefta, Talmud Yerushalmi, and Mishneh Torah. | | | Sifrut HaKodesh, an online Hebrew Bible with links to relevant references in Rabbinical literature, provided by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem through the Snunit program, Israel's main learning and teaching resource for children, parents, and educators. | | | A Jewish site that has the full text of the Hebrew Bible online in four editions in Hebrew (including one with cantillation marks), one in Aramaic (Targum Onqelos), one in English (the Jewish Publication Society translation of 1917), and one in parallel Hebrew and English (voweled Hebrew and JPS English). |
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| | Jerusalem Books - English Book List |
| | E-1254 Torah View on Women, SR Hirsch, $4.50 sc | | | E-537 Infinite Chain, Torah, Masorah and Man,, $15.95,hc | | | E-198 Chofetz Chayim: On the Torah: Let My People Go-Shmos, $15.65, |
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| | TORAH.NET - A Site for the Observant Jew |
| | Beis Medrash for Torah Learning and Jewish Spirituality in Yemin Moshe, in Jerusalem, with emphasis on Chassidut. | | | On-line in Hebrew, search engines of Snunit in Tanach, Mishnah, Tosefta, Talmud Bavli and Yerushalmi, Mishnah Torah. | | | In other words, This site would guide people to the places in the Talmud which discuss issues in which they are interested. |
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| | Purim Torah - Mishnah Choggoh |
| | And there are many customs which people follow during Choggoh. | | | In each and every year on the twenty-fifth day of December the Nazarine world celebrates Choggoh, which is the festival of the birth [Christmas], and many people who are not Nazarines also celebrate then. | | | Even though Choggoh is not a Jewish festival, the author wondered in his heart to work out and to know how the Mishnah would appear were this the case, and so the author therefore gathered the customs and other matters which celebrants of Choggoh are accustomed to in this pamphlet. |
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| | 0765760045 Words Of Torah: A Collection Of Divrei Torah By Young Israel Rabbis | | | 0765759926 Common Ground: The Weekly Torah Portion Through The Eyes Of A Conservative, Orthodox, & Reformed Rabbi | | | 0765760428 Thinking About Creation: Eternal Torah And Modern Physics |
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| | books.ca - Mishnah |
| | Jewish Literature Between the Bible and the Mishnah W/CD ROM | | | Jewish Literature Between the Bible and the Mishnah: A Historical and Literary Introduction with CDROM | | | A unique text-based Jewish studies program for 8th-12th grade students who attend secular schools in the Washington area. |
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| | Mordechai Torczyner's WebShas - Index to the Talmud: Torah: Talmudic Structure |
| | Please note that "Mishnah" refers to the original written form of the Oral Torah, "Baraita" refers to its non-canonized contemporary, and "Talmud"/"Gemara" refers to the explanation of the Mishnah. | | | Structure and Style of the Mishnah / Baraita | | | Methods of Legal Analysis of the Written Torah |
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