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Torah   /tˈɔrə/   Listen
noun
Tora, Torah  n.  (pl. toroth)  (Jewish Lit.)
(a)
A law; a precept. "A considerable body of priestly Toroth."
(b)
Divine instruction; revelation. "Tora,... before the time of Malachi, is generally used of the revelations of God's will made through the prophets."
(c)
The Pentateuch or "Law of Moses." "The Hebrew Bible is divided into three parts: (1) The Torah, "Law," or Pentateuch. (2) The Prophets (Nevi'im in Hebrew)... (3) The Kethubim, or the "Writings," generally termed Hagiographa. From the first letters of these three parts, the word "Tanakh" is derived, and used by Jews as the name of their Bible, the Christian Old Testament."






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"Torah" Quotes from Famous Books



... who were anxious for the spiritual rather than the political independence of the Jews, counseled submission to Rome, and were willing "to render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's," so long as they were not compelled to give up the Torah. But the Zealots desired political as well as religious freedom, and they fomented rebellion. They have been compared by Merivale to the Montagnards of the French Revolution, driven by their own indomitable passion to assert the truths that ...
— Josephus • Norman Bentwich



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