How to Use the Torah in a Sentence

the Torah

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  • Soon enough, Ben is schooling her in both the Torah and the rules of the Kosher kitchen.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 20 Jan. 2024
  • David Tatel and his wife had just left a discussion of blindness in the Torah.
    — Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The Guide also reflects on the reasons for the commandments in the Torah.
    — Jay M. Harris, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2014
  • Waving the four species is a mitzvah according to the Torah.
    — Jamie Kravitz, Woman's Day, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Nation/World David Tatel and his wife had just left a discussion of blindness in the Torah.
    — Rachel Weiner, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Apr. 2023
  • The marking of this special occasion is part of the reason for the large crowd that joined the Torah celebration.
    — Sun Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The family had mezuzahs, which are pieces of parchment inscribed with Hebrew verse from the Torah, on their doors, police said.
    — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Shavuot became a time to celebrate the study of the Torah and its many rabbinic commentaries, including the Mishnah and the Talmud.
    — Laura Yares, The Conversation, 22 May 2023
  • Passover always occurs in spring during the Hebrew month known as Nisan (or Nissan), as mandated by the Torah.
    — Terri Robertson, Country Living, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Then an intense hurricane hits, a sea wall breaks and Diggs must rush to save the Torah scroll, putting his own life at risk as Miami is ravaged by the storm...
    — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Here, young men wearing yarmulkes spend their days studying both the Torah and military strategy.
    — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Simchat Torah celebrates Jewish joy at the possession and observance of the words of the Torah, the Jewish scriptures.
    — WSJ, 8 Oct. 2023
  • But thanks to high birth rates, what was once a few hundred students of the Torah has grown to nearly 13% of the Israeli population: about 1.3 million people.
    — Harriet Marsden, theweek, 3 July 2024
  • Pomegranate seeds also represent the 613 mitzvot, or commandments, that are cited in the Torah, the Jewish holy book.
    — Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, The Courier-Journal, 9 Sep. 2023
  • She’s put more thought into having a legendary party than studying the ceremonial text from the Torah.
    — Courtney Howard, Variety, 18 Aug. 2023
  • On four different occasions, the Torah describes questions asked by children about Passover.
    — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Basing itself on the Torah text, the Haggadah offers answers to suit the specific educational needs of each child.
    — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 15 Jan. 2024
  • No movie captures everyone's experience, and this film will surely ruffle feathers (kissing in front of the Torah is not exactly kosher).
    — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2023
  • For most, the answer lay in studying the Torah and, generally, the Hebrew Scriptures, and in the observance of halacha, or religious laws, including those governing Shabbat and the kosher diet.
    — James Carroll, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The small band of dedicated followers eventually defeated the Greek general and his army, winning the war and protection for the Torah, a book of Jewish teachings, writings, and laws.
    — Holly Rizzuto Palker, Parents, 20 Aug. 2023
  • Not only visually stimulating, the juxtaposition of Lindberg’s installation with the Islamic prayer carpets, along with the Torah ark covers, makes a wonderful case for the idea that the divine can be found in many forms.
    — Vanessa H. Larson, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Most Florida students using state vouchers to pay for private school spend their scholarships at religious schools, as their parents select campuses where lessons from the Bible, the Torah and the Quran are taught alongside traditional academics.
    — Leslie Postal, Orlando Sentinel, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Leibowitz’s positions were shaped by his understanding of Judaism as a religion of praxis, i.e., a normative system of mitzvot, biblical commandments in the Torah observed by practicing Jews, not as a political ideology or a national identity.
    — Moti Mizrahi, JSTOR Daily, 18 Oct. 2023

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