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What does God expect from each of us? Each religion has laws and expectations for its adherents. Many religions expect non-adherents to accept their precepts through conversion. Judaism has a ...

Why does the Torah begin with the Genesis story? If it is a book of Law, ask the rabbis, why not start with the first commandment? On an individual level, perhaps it teaches us that just as God first ...

(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Everyone has at least a few creation stories: how they were born, how they came to the career they chose, how they met their loved one. This week Jews around the world ...

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts — Mankind’s most ubiquitous tome, the Torah has been read the world over — but only two of the holy scrolls have been brought into outer space and back, and both have an ...

“And by all the strong hand and awesome power that Moses performed before the eyes of all Israel” (Deut. 34:12).“In the beginning of God’s creating the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1). On Simchat ...

“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” This is perhaps the most famous introduction in human history. Its meaning has sparked debate throughout millennia between theologists and ...

The Torah is the first part of the Jewish bible. It is the central and most important document of Judaism and has been used by Jews through the ages. Torah refers to the five books of Moses which are ...

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