Torah (Hebrew, "teaching," "law, docrine") is designated as the teachings of the Jewish religion. In the Pentateuch the term "Torah" can mean all laws on a particular subject, Leviticus 7:2, or the summation of all laws, Deuteronomy 4:44.
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The Torah was (and is) believed to be divine, and in the same way as the Torah was accompanied by an oral tradition, so there grew up a secret oral tradition which claimed to possess an initiated understanding of the Torah, its hidden meanings, ...
According to the Torah, God created the universe through language. God said 'Vayehi' 'Let there be' + [a noun, ...
By interpreting the Torah, or discovering its hidden, true, meaning, the Kabbalist hoped to acquire "immediate personal contact with the Divine" ...
Language, Torah, and Hermeneutics in Abraham Abulafia - Google Book Search The present volume ... is part of a doctoral dissertation Review by Philip Beitchman: Circle in the Square: Studies in the Use of Gender in Kabbalistic Symbolism by Elliot R.
A general statement of intent is expressed in the introduction to his commentary on the Torah, which seems to stress the esoteric aspects of these teachings.
The Torah was translated into Greek for their benefit. This is the Septuagint version.
It is this tradition-namely, the esoteric Law of Moses-which is the Torah, whereof is recorded in the Talmud: "Moses received the Oral Law from Sinai and delivered it to Joshua, and Joshua to the Elders, and the Elders to the Prophets, ...
The earthly body of alchemy is chemistry, for chemists do not realize that half of The Book of Torah is forever concealed behind the veil of Isis (see the Tarot), ...
Spice of Torah - Gematria. Suggestive Gematria: The Hidden Numerical Significance of the English Language. The Jewish Book of Numbers. The Secrets of the Haggadah: A Commentary on the Passover Haggadah.
Christian world been in possession of those hidden scrolls which contain the secret doctrine of Israel, and if the Qabbalists were correct in their assumption that the lost books of the Mosaic Mysteries have been woven into the fabric of the Torah, ...
Orthodox Jews call the first five books of the Bible the Torah. Eliyahu Rips of Hebrew University says it is true that the Bible has predicted various historical events that have come to pass.
Recent discoveries by Stan Tenen and others, (Gnosis No. 3 and 28) of the geometric revelation hidden in the Torah's Hebrew letter code that model mathematically the fractal process of a seeds germination into fruit containing self propagating seed ...
A: (a picture of Caiaphas from "jesus christ superstar" holding out a torah scroll toward a man in a pointy hat) - the next day i got some sound advice from a wise counselor Q: What should i beware tomorrow?
But the influence couldn't be very strong because in rejecting the Torah as a work of Satan, "the Cathars go much further in their metaphysical anti-Semitism than does the Catholic Church" (p. 236).
24. The term Jew is derived from Judea, one of the two kingdoms which would go to make up Israel. Eventually Judea fell but the term lingered. The Law refers to Torah, the five books of Moses. The literal translateion is 'law'.
the Rabbinic conception (as in Targum Jer. on Gen. i. 27), that the human body consists of 248 members and 365 nerves, corresponding respectively to the number of affirmative and prohibitive precepts in the Torah, ...
See also: World, Light, Spirit, Symbol, Mystic
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