Torah
Five books, scrolled
Torah is the first five books of the Hebrew Bible—Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy—containing the foundational narratives and laws of Judaism.
The term extends to the physical scroll on which these books are written, read aloud in synagogues.
More broadly, Torah can mean Jewish religious teaching and tradition as a whole: She devoted her life to Torah study.
Five books of Moses
- GenesisFirst biblical book
- ExodusMass departure from a place
- LeviticusHebrew scripture of rituals
- NumbersQuantity-representing symbols
Deuteronomy · codex · scroll · parchment · scribe · sofer · mantle · ark
Jewish house of worship
- bemaRaised sanctuary platform
- arkLarge rescue vessel
- menorahJewish ceremonial lampstand
- tallitFringed Jewish worship garment
tefillin · phylactery · kippah · shofar · cantor · chanting · procession · reading
Jewish religious study institution
- rabbiJewish spiritual leader
- commentaryExplanatory remarks on events
- midrashJewish biblical commentary
- exegesisCritical textual interpretation
hermeneutics · daf · Septuagint · interpretation · scholarship
Jewish law commandment
- commandmentsAuthoritative rules demanding compliance
- kosherPermissible by Jewish law
- SanhedrinJewish high court
- observanceKeeping of customs
covenant · Sinai · tablets · ordinance · statute · prohibition · obligation · Talmud
Pentateuch
Five books of Moses
Numbers · Deuteronomy · codex · scroll · parchment · scribe · sofer · mantle · ark · aliyah
synagogue
Jewish house of worship
tallit · tefillin · phylactery · kippah · shofar · cantor · chanting · procession · reading · service
yeshiva
Jewish religious study institution
- rabbiJewish spiritual leader
- commentaryExplanatory remarks on events
- midrashJewish biblical commentary
exegesis · hermeneutics · daf · Septuagint · interpretation · scholarship
mitzvah
Jewish law commandment
- commandmentsAuthoritative rules demanding compliance
- kosherPermissible by Jewish law
- SanhedrinJewish high court
observance · covenant · Sinai · tablets · ordinance · statute · prohibition · obligation · Talmud · Mishnah
Kabbalah
Jewish esoteric tradition
- emanationSomething that flows out
- JudaismShabbat, kosher, Passover, Hanukkah, Yom Kippur
- Abrahamic faithsJudaism, Christianity, Islam, Abraham, God
- Jewish culturesynagogue, synagogues, rabbi, rabbis, kosher
- Jewish heritagesynagogues, Ashkenazi, rabbis, Sephardic, Hebrew
- Hebrew Wordsshalom, amen, hallelujah, chai, Adonai
- Moral TextsNicomachean Ethics, Republic, Meditations, Utilitarianism, treatise
TorahNew Testament
Second biblical division
Quran · Gospels · secular law · Vedas · Bhagavad Gita
Torahlawlessness
Absence of governing rules
anomie · libertinism · licentiousness · moral relativism · nihilism
- Torah scrollHandwritten biblical parchment roll
- Torah portionScriptural synagogue segment
- Torah scholarExpert in Jewish scripture
- Torah studyAnalyzing Jewish sacred writings
- Torah lawsReligious rules from scripture
- Torah arkSacred scroll housing