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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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"Tora" Quotes from Famous Books



... Sinai. In the meantime, only Israel was bound to obey it in every letter, because only the Jews—born or unborn—had agreed to do so amid the thunders and lightnings of Sinai. Even the child's unborn soul had been present and accepted the yoke of the Torah. He often tried to recall the episode, but although he could picture the scene quite well, and see the souls curling over the mountains like white clouds, he could not remember being among them. No doubt he had forgotten it, with his other pre-natal experiences—like ...
— Dreamers of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill



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