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A d'var Torah (Hebrew: דבר תורה, "word of Torah"; plural: divrei Torah), also known as a drasha or drash in Ashkenazic communities, is a talk on topics generally relating to a parashah (section) of the Torah – typically the weekly Torah portion. A typical d'var Torah imparts a life lesson, backed up by passages from texts such as the ...
This book is a Hasidic guide to the psychological drama of daily Jewish spiritual life. It describes how contemplating the mystical greatness of the Creator and the union that a Jew has with Him through the Torah's commandments, can achieve the love and fear of God necessary for sincere worship.
God's immanence is found at successively descending levels of reality. Torah descends from on High, while man ascends the levels of PaRDeS exegesis in Torah from Below. In this sense, ascending the four levels of interpretation reveals greater divinity in Torah; the exoteric and esoteric are linked in a continuous chain.
the interpretation of certain words and letters and apparently superfluous and/or missing words or letters, and prefixes and suffixes; the interpretation of those letters which, in certain words, are provided with points; the interpretation of the letters in a word according to their numerical value (see Gematria)
The thirteen rules were compiled by Rabbi Yishmael ben Elisha Nahmani ben Elisha for the elucidation of the Torah and making halakic deductions from it. They are, strictly speaking, mere amplifications of the seven rules of Hillel the Elder, and are collected in the Baraita of Rabbi Ishmael, forming the introduction to the Sifra and reading as follows:
In Hebrew, the five books of the Torah are identified by the incipits in each book; [24] and the common English names for the books are derived from the Greek Septuagint [citation needed] and reflect the essential theme of each book: Bəreshit (בְּרֵאשִׁית, literally "In the beginning")—Genesis, from Γένεσις (Génesis ...
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They saw the written Torah as containing many levels of interpretation. It was left to later generations, who were steeped in the oral tradition of interpretation, to discover those ("hidden") interpretations not revealed by Moses. [15] Instead, Moses was obligated to impart the explanations orally to students, children, and fellow adults.