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- Living Language Hebrew, Complete Edition (Beginner to Advanced) This is a massive bargain and a great way to start Hebrew. It includes 9 CDs and 3 Books (Essential, Intermediate, and Advanced).
- Teach Yourself to Read Hebrew. This book focuses only on reading but is definitely the BEST one for complete beginners. In 92 pages and 10 lessons, you’re taught to read Hebrew without boring technicalities.
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The Torah, or Five Books of Moses, retells the story of how the family of Abraham and Sarah became the people of Israel, and how they came back from exile in Egypt, under the leadership of Moses, to the border of the land of Israel, on the way stopping at Mount Sinai for the revelation of what are known as the Ten Commandments. The Torah includes b...
Through the tradition of ongoing commentary, the laws, narratives, prophecies, and proverbs of the Bible find contemporary and eternal meaning. Classical commentaries like those of Rashi, Radak and Ibn Ezrashow nearly as great a diversity in style and approach as more contemporary commentaries.
Where did the Bible come from? Traditionally, Jews have claimed that all five books of the Torah were revealed to Moses on Mount Sinai. The prophets were the authors of their own books as well as others that are attributed to them (Lamentations is attributed to the prophet Jeremiah), and Kings David and Solomon each wrote several works (eg. Psalmsi...
The Bible is not a difficult book to begin learning, although its complexity makes it difficult to master. A biblical narrative does not stand on its own; some contemporary literary theorists of the Bible take their lead from the Midrash and read the Bible as a whole, reading how parts of the Torah reflect on other parts, and how the Prophets and W...
Hebrew Scriptures, Old Testament, or Tanakh. Hebrew Bible, collection of writings that was first compiled and preserved as the sacred books of the Jewish people. It also constitutes a large portion of the Christian Bible, known as the Old Testament. Except for a few passages in Aramaic, appearing mainly in the apocalyptic Book of Daniel, these ...
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- Five Books of Moses (Torah) Often referred to simply as the Torah, especially when in scroll format, the Five Books of Moses are the foundation of Judaism.
- Psalms (Tehillim) Art by Sefira Lightstone. The Five Books of Moses are followed by 19 other books which comprise the Prophets (Neviim) and Writings (Ketuvim).
- Megillah (Book of Esther) One of the last books added to the Biblical canon is the Book of Esther, also known as the Megillah (“Scroll”). One of five megillahs included in the canon, Esther is the only one commonly read from a handwritten parchment scroll.
- Mishnah. Art by Rivka Korf Studio. Moses received the Torah along with the Oral Torah—which unpacks and elucidates the somewhat terse language of Scripture—and a set of laws through which it could be analyzed and expounded.
The Tanakh, or Hebrew Bible, is Judaism’s foundational text. “Tanakh” is an acronym for the three major sections of the canon, the Torah (the Five Books of Moses), Nevi’im (Prophets), and Ketuvim (Writings). This first library of the Jewish people contains many genres: narrative history, law, poetry, wisdom, and theology. It begins with the creation of the world and ends with Cyrus’s ...
e. The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh[a] (/ tɑːˈnɑːx /; [1] Hebrew: תַּנַ״ךְ Tanaḵ), also known in Hebrew as Miqra (/ miːˈkrɑː /; Hebrew: מִקְרָא Mīqrāʾ . ), is the canonical collection of Hebrew scriptures, comprising the Torah, the Nevi'im, and the Ketuvim. Different branches of Judaism and Samaritanism have ...
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Based on the sections and text of the Mishnah, the Talmud, commonly referred to as the Gemara, is the compendium of Jewish law and thought. The Talmud is made up of the Talmud Bavli, the edition developed in Babylonia, and edited at the end of the fifth century C.E.; the Talmud Yerushalmi is the edition compiled in the Land of Israel at the end of the fourth century C.E.
