There are 304,805 letters in the Torah, so if you’re writing the Jewish holy book out by hand — on animal skin, with a quill-style pen whose nib you have to keep filling with ink from a little ...

A traveling workshop of TAU's Orit Guardians program discovered two 15th-century Orit books—the oldest found to date in the ...

When I read the words that begin this week’s Torah portion, “Be Holy”, I try to imagine a profound and complex period of seeking that preceded these If you are looking out there for some ...

According to both Jewish and Christian dogma, ... But even if the holy book is not quite that old, many experts say the Bible’s earliest verses date back well over 2,000 years.

Israel Police say it’s a Hanukkah miracle. Undercover police officers managed to locate a cache of ancient holy books that were stolen about a month ago from a synagogue in Rishon Lezion. On ...

Holy texts can be analysed and understood at these four levels distinctly and concurrently. Together, the first letter of each word forms the acronym, “Pardes”, itself a Hebrew word meaning ...

Sephardic Torah from the Holy Land | It was Simchat Torah, Not October 7th The brutal attacks on Simchat Torah were not about territory. Hamas perpetrated a genocidal attack on our values.

The words we recite when taking the Torah from the Ark are biblical in origin: “And it came to pass, when the Ark set forward, that Moses said, ‘Rise up, O Lord, and let Your enemies be ...

In The Beginning, There Were The Holy Books. Published Feb 10, 2002 at 7:00 PM EST Updated Mar 13, ... Moreover, Israeli commandos do not cite the Hebrew prophet Joshua as they go into battle, ...

Rabbi Moses Maimonides (1135-1204) was a halachist par excellence, philosopher, physician, and a political leader of the Jewish community at the ibn Ezra Synagogue of Egypt. Born in Cordovero, Spain a ...