Iβm trying to study jewish texts (iβm jewish, but grew up reform so we really only focused on the written torah), and at the moment iβm reading through the written torah with commentaries.
Which text should i read afterwards?
Sorry if this comes off as a weird question lol.
I donβt know if anybody is going to care but a couple of months ago I set out to read the entire Tanakh. For background, I am a reform Jew from a very not religious family. Iβve been looking for some answers about the purpose and meaning of life (as ever young man does) and figured it would be a good place to look. At the very least, it would help me to connect further with my culture. I am proud to say I have finally finished the Torah! I still have the Neviβim and Ketuvim to go, but Iβm really happy with my progress so far. Again, not sure if anyone cares, but Iβm really happy about it and wanted to share.
I think that because of how influential the Bible is on society historically and in the modern-day everyone should read it at some point
as I said I am not religious and I don't think your religion or lack of religion should stop you from reading the Bible
Btw if anyone has questions ask freely
I'm looking into Judaism because Ive been thinking abt conversion for a very long time but a lot more seriously recently. I wanted to know if it was disrespectful or looked down upon to read the Torah as a current Christian, and if so, what else could I read to educate myself a bit more on the religious side of things?
So many Christians believe the Torah basically is the Old Testament before the New Testament was revealed by God. I already did enough research to know that this is wrong since the Torah is specifically the first 5 book of Moses and what is called the Old Testament in Christianity is more specifically the Tanakh in Judaism.
That said is there any significant differences between the 5 Books of Moses in the Torah and typical Old Testament translations? Or if I already read the Bible once, I already read the same message a typical Torah used by Jews in the Synagogue is sending to people who read it? I'm considering reading it out of my free time religious studies which is why I ask as an agnostic Goy.
>"Take this book of Teaching and place it beside the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD your God, and let it remain there as a witness against you."
My Muslim friend said that the Torah is corrupted because of this verse. He said that the Torah that Moses wrote and put beside the Ark is not the Torah we read in Tanakh today because it would have been impossible for Moses to have written that he was going to place the Torah beside the Ark before he did such a thing.
It also confused me further because I had a Jewish grandmother who was Orthodox and she told me the whole Torah was given once for all and completely to Moses on Mt. Sinai... so if the whole Torah was given to Moses then and there did Moses possess the narrative account of his death?
I'm not sure if that's what all Jews believe but she was Orthodox and wouldn't touch buttons and stuff so I assume she took her faith seriously and knew what she was talking about but I am not sure how the Torah I am reading could be the same given the above.
What's a simplified answer to this? I looked through some commentary on Sefaria but most of it was just discussions as to whether the Book of the Law was placed beside the Ark or inside it.
Hi all
Iβm looking for a list or compilation of sources from the Torah/Talmud which are racist/bigoted and controversial.
Itβs like theyβve all been scrubbed from the internet!
Thanks
I am aware of some of the scholarship concerning the codification of the Oral Torah in the Mishnah but am looking for more sources on the origins of the practices themselves as well as their relation to the Hebrew Bible.
In yeshiva, I learned Torah many times but always with rashi and with a Rabbinic agenda. I've recently started reading the Torah without any commentary and it's fascinating to see what the original was and what the rabbis reinterpret.
For example, rabbis say each of the Avos had a certain middah. Avraham - chesed. Yitzchok - gevurah. Yaakov - emes. However, you read the text and you see the complete opposite. Avraham almost slaughters his own son, he sends hagar away twice to starve in the desert, he sends Lot away too, and he cares only about himself when he lets Sarah get captured multiple times. Yitzchok basically does shit in the Torah. He almost gets slaughtered by his own father, pretty much the opposite of gevurah, and people constantly take advantage of him. Yaakov is the most obvious example of the opposite of the middah rabbis give him. He tricks and schemes to get esau's birthright, then meets his match in Laban who tricks him right back. In the end though, he gets Lavan back with manipulating the sheep to become rich with lavan's flock.
It's crazy to see how the rabbis subvert the stories in the Torah and create completely different stories. There's an outstanding chutzpah to take the very flaws of these figures and turn them into their greatest strengths.
My Hebrew is pretty much non existent & although i would like to learn i fear it might take me longer than i have left to learn to read & understand properly
I'm Reform btw but i tend to find myself on Chabad.org quite regularly
So i was reading this on the daily Torah study page
https://www.chabad.org/dailystudy/tanya.asp?tdate=5/14/2020
And i'm hoping that although its not as much of a mitzvah reading & speaking the Torah in English, rather than Hebrew, it still is a partial mitzvah ?
So many Christians believe the Torah basically is the Old Testament before the New Testament was revealed by God. I already did enough research to know that this is wrong since the Torah is specifically the first 5 book of Moses and what is called the Old Testament in Christianity is more specifically the Tanakh in Judaism.
That said is there any significant differences between the 5 Books of Moses in the Torah and typical Old Testament translations? Or if I already read the Bible once, I already read the same message a typical Torah used by Jews in the Synagogue is sending to people who read it? I'm considering reading it out of my free time religious studies which is why I ask as an agnostic Goy.
So many Christians believe the Torah basically is the Old Testament before the New Testament was revealed by God. I already did enough research to know that this is wrong since the Torah is specifically the first 5 book of Moses and what is called the Old Testament in Christianity is more specifically the Tanakh in Judaism.
That said is there any significant differences between the 5 Books of Moses in the Torah and typical Old Testament translations? Or if I already read the Bible once, I already read the same message a typical Torah used by Jews in the Synagogue is sending to people who read it? I'm considering reading it out of my free time religious studies which is why I ask as an agnostic Goy.
So many Christians believe the Torah basically is the Old Testament before the New Testament was revealed by God. I already did enough research to know that this is wrong since the Torah is specifically the first 5 book of Moses and what is called the Old Testament in Christianity is more specifically the Tanakh in Judaism.
That said is there any significant differences between the 5 Books of Moses in the Torah and typical Old Testament translations? Or if I already read the Bible once, I already read the same message a typical Torah used by Jews in the Synagogue is sending to people who read it? I'm considering reading it out of my free time religious studies which is why I ask as an agnostic Goy.
So many Christians believe the Torah basically is the Old Testament before the New Testament was revealed by God. I already did enough research to know that this is wrong since the Torah is specifically the first 5 book of Moses and what is called the Old Testament in Christianity is more specifically the Tanakh in Judaism.
That said is there any significant differences between the 5 Books of Moses in the Torah and typical Old Testament translations? Or if I already read the Bible once, I already read the same message a typical Torah used by Jews in the Synagogue is sending to people who read it? I'm considering reading it out of my free time religious studies which is why I ask as an agnostic Goy.
So many Christians believe the Torah basically is the Old Testament before the New Testament was revealed by God. I already did enough research to know that this is wrong since the Torah is specifically the first 5 book of Moses and what is called the Old Testament in Christianity is more specifically the Tanakh in Judaism.
That said is there any significant differences between the 5 Books of Moses in the Torah and typical Old Testament translations? Or if I already read the Bible once, I already read the same message a typical Torah used by Jews in the Synagogue is sending to people who read it? I'm considering reading it out of my free time religious studies which is why I ask as an agnostic Goy.
So many Christians believe the Torah basically is the Old Testament before the New Testament was revealed by God. I already did enough research to know that this is wrong since the Torah is specifically the first 5 book of Moses and what is called the Old Testament in Christianity is more specifically the Tanakh in Judaism.
That said is there any significant differences between the 5 Books of Moses in the Torah and typical Old Testament translations? Or if I already read the Bible once, I already read the same message a typical Torah used by Jews in the Synagogue is sending to people who read it? I'm considering reading it out of my free time religious studies which is why I ask as an agnostic Goy.
So many Christians believe the Torah basically is the Old Testament before the New Testament was revealed by God. I already did enough research to know that this is wrong since the Torah is specifically the first 5 book of Moses and what is called the Old Testament in Christianity is more specifically the Tanakh in Judaism.
That said is there any significant differences between the 5 Books of Moses in the Torah and typical Old Testament translations? Or if I already read the Bible once, I already read the same message a typical Torah used by Jews in the Synagogue is sending to people who read it? I'm considering reading it out of my free time religious studies which is why I ask as an agnostic Goy.
So many Christians believe the Torah basically is the Old Testament before the New Testament was revealed by God. I already did enough research to know that this is wrong since the Torah is specifically the first 5 book of Moses and what is called the Old Testament in Christianity is more specifically the Tanakh in Judaism.
That said is there any significant differences between the 5 Books of Moses in the Torah and typical Old Testament translations? Or if I already read the Bible once, I already read the same message a typical Torah used by Jews in the Synagogue is sending to people who read it? I'm considering reading it out of my free time religious studies which is why I ask as an agnostic Goy.
So many Christians believe the Torah basically is the Old Testament before the New Testament was revealed by God. I already did enough research to know that this is wrong since the Torah is specifically the first 5 book of Moses and what is called the Old Testament in Christianity is more specifically the Tanakh in Judaism.
That said is there any significant differences between the 5 Books of Moses in the Torah and typical Old Testament translations? Or if I already read the Bible once, I already read the same message a typical Torah used by Jews in the Synagogue is sending to people who read it? I'm considering reading it out of my free time religious studies which is why I ask as an agnostic Goy.
