Just as the Torah and Bible teach concern for those in distress, the Koran instructs all Muslims to make caring for widows, orphans, and refugees a priority.
Just as the Torah and Bible teach concern for those in distress, the Koran instructs all Muslims to make caring for widows, orphans, and refugees a priority.
Confucius is like the Torah, rules to follow. And Lao-Tzu is even more conservative, saying that if you do nothing you won't break any rules. You have to let tradition fall sometime, you have to take action, you have to eat bacon.
There was a tsunami and there are terrible natural disasters, all of this because of too little Torah study.
which in no way wanted to distance the Torah observant Jews from the joint club.
When Bill Bennett, the Rev. Richard John Neuhaus and theologian Michael Novak go to the synagogue, it's not to read the Torah. They're going there to make a speech.
Where there is Torah it sustains the world.
Both of my parents would say they were atheists, so where I inherited my connection to God I don't know. But it's natural. No Bible, no Torah, just the love religion.
And you can't make a mistake when you are reading the Torah, so you have men standing around who will correct you if you are reading it incorrectly.
The observant Jew has his own sense of values. Torah Judaism is his blueprint for this life, his target for existence.
The G-d of History, the G-d of the Jewish people, called the world into being for one reason only and that was for the sake of the Jewish people and the Torah of Israel.
All of a sudden, some bureaucrat says, 'Well, we're going to give you tons of money, but you can't talk about your faith. You can't teach them the Torah, you can't talk about Jesus' or what have you. At that point they have essentially killed the essence of that organization.
There is the illusion of the world and the reality of the Torah.
They have a dietary standard that they take from the Old Testamentthe Torah. It's quasi-kosher no pork, no shellfish, no mixing of milk and meat. If the white supremacists are from that denomination, they may have a bona fide religious practice and I have to support it. It gave them an opportunity to meet three times a day.
A synagogue is a house for the Torahs, and it's also a house of God, ... When we (Jews) build a new synagogue, we're building a house for the Torah. That's why it's such a big event to move the Torahs to the new synagogue.
Things shifted a half-century ago. The Jewish community's focus went from Torah to tikkun olam. We redefined our mission in essentially political, repair-the-world terms, rather than strictly religious. Fear of faith in general became the central premise of the American Jewish community.
I have also written a book about the Giving of the Torah, and a book on the Days of Awe, and a book on the books of Israel that have been written since the day the Torah was given to Israel.
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