The Torah For Dummies
Chapter One
Beginning with Torah Basics
In This Chapter
* Meeting the Torah's author - God
* Discovering the most important elements of the Torah
* Glimpsing each of the Five Books of Moses
* Understanding how to live a righteous life according to the Torah
* Seeing how the Torah guides the lives of the Jewish people
The Torah, also known as the Five Books of Moses, is the most sacred
object and the most important text of the Jewish people. As a sacred
scroll found in every synagogue throughout the world, it's referred to as a
sefer Torah (say-fehr toe-rah; Torah scroll); as a bound book, it's referred to
as a chumash (khuh-mahsh; five).
The Torah is more than a text, though; it's also the spiritual tradition of the
Jewish people, communicated by God (the Creator and Master of the universe)
to Moses (the greatest prophet of the Jewish people) on Mount Sinai
in 1280 BCE and handed down from generation to generation.
You can understand the word "Torah" in a third way as well. T ... read full excerpt from The Torah For Dummies ebook
