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'Twice Scripture and once translation'), is the Jewish practice of reading the weekly Torah portion in a prescribed manner. In addition to hearing the Torah portion read in the synagogue, a person should read it himself twice during that week, together with a translation usually by Targum Onkelos and/or Rashi 's commentary.
A page of a modern Mikraot Gedolot Chumash. The text is the block of large, bold letters; adjacent to it is the Targum Onkelos with Rashi's commentary below with the related supercommentary Siftei Chachamim adjacent. Nachmanides, Abraham ibn Ezra, and Obadiah ben Jacob Sforno are on the facing page; other commentaries and references are in the ...
It is available online as Javascript-dependent HTML document with Rashi's commentary at chabad.org – The Complete Jewish Bible with Rashi Commentary (in Hebrew and English). [28] The Living Torah, by Aryeh Kaplan, his best-known work, is a widely used, scholarly (and user-friendly) translation of the Torah into English.
Chumash from Basel, 1943, in the Jewish Museum of Switzerland’s collection. Chumash (also Ḥumash; Hebrew: חומש, pronounced or pronounced or Yiddish: pronounced [ˈχʊməʃ]; plural Ḥumashim) is a Torah in printed in book bound form (i.e. codex) as opposed to a Torah scroll.
Mishnah Yomit, daily study of the Mishnah (6 year cycle); Mishnatit covers all of Mishnah at a much faster pace (1 year cycle). Daily Rambam Study, one or three chapters of the Mishneh Torah (respectively, a 3 or 1-year cycle) Mishnah Berurah Yomit - daily study (2.5 or 5-year cycle) Kitzur Shulchan Aruch Yomi - daily study (1 year cycle)
Chabad.org has a Jewish knowledge base which includes over 100,000 articles of information ranging from basic Judaism to Hasidic philosophy taught from the Chabad point of view. The major categories are the human being, God and man, concepts and ideas, the Torah, the physical world, the Jewish calendar, science and technology, people and events ...
The Judaica Press Complete Tanach with Rashi is a bilingual Hebrew–English translation of the Bible that includes Rashi's commentary in both Hebrew and English. The English translations were made by A. J. Rosenberg. [21] The Complete Tanach with Rashi is available online. [22]
In Jewish custom, baby boys are named in a special ceremony, known as a brit milah, but baby girls are often named during the Torah reading, with the father (in non-egalitarian congregations) or both parents (in egalitarian congregations) being called up for an aliyah prior to the naming, and a special blessing for the baby.