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Special pages; Printable version; ... Isaac Leeser's 1845 edition of the Torah in Hebrew and English on facing pages ... Version of PDF format: 1.5: Page size: 380 x ...
HebrewBooks.org [8] – was founded to preserve old American Hebrew books that are out of print or circulation, but it expanded its mission "to include all Torah Seforim (=books) ever printed". Over 60,000 out-of-print books and journals may be downloaded as PDF images on the main site and on its beta version. [9]
Special pages; Printable version; ... Isaac Leeser's 1845 edition of the Torah in Hebrew and English on facing pages ... Version of PDF format: 1.5: Page size: 362 x ...
The inaccurate rendering of "Torah" as "Law" [14] may be an obstacle to understanding the ideal that is summed up in the term talmud torah (תלמוד תורה, "study of Torah"). [3] The term "Torah" is also used to designate the entire Hebrew Bible. [15] The earliest name for the first part of the Bible seems to have been "The Torah of Moses".
Under Ezra, Torah reading became more frequent and the congregation themselves substituted for the King's role. According to one source, Ezra initiated the modern custom of reading thrice weekly in the synagogue. [2] This reading is an obligation incumbent on the congregation, not an individual, and did not replace the Hakhel reading by the king.
The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh [a] (/ t ɑː ˈ n ɑː x /; [1] Hebrew: תַּנַ״ךְ tanaḵ, תָּנָ״ךְ tānāḵ or תְּנַ״ךְ tənaḵ) also known in Hebrew as Miqra (/ m iː ˈ k r ɑː /; Hebrew: מִקְרָא miqrāʾ), is the canonical collection of Hebrew scriptures, comprising the Torah, the Nevi'im, and the Ketuvim.
The Etz Hayim contains the Hebrew text of the Torah (according to the Codex Leningradensis), the Jewish Publication Society ()'s modern English translation of the Hebrew text, a number of commentaries, written in English, on the Torah which run alongside the Hebrew text and its English translation and a number of essays on the Torah and Tanakh in the back of the book.
The order of the books is Torah (the five books of Moses), Nevi'im (Prophets) and Ketuvim (Writings). Christian readers would note differences in the order of the books from the Christian Bible, as well as some breaks in where chapters begin and end (such as Deuteronomy 12:32 vs. 13:1), and also in Tehillim where the titles are often counted as the first verse, causing a difference of one in ...