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noun
Tora, Torah  n.  (pl. toroth)  (Jewish Lit.)
(a)
A law; a precept. "A considerable body of priestly Toroth."
(b)
Divine instruction; revelation. "Tora,... before the time of Malachi, is generally used of the revelations of God's will made through the prophets."
(c)
The Pentateuch or "Law of Moses." "The Hebrew Bible is divided into three parts: (1) The Torah, "Law," or Pentateuch. (2) The Prophets (Nevi'im in Hebrew)... (3) The Kethubim, or the "Writings," generally termed Hagiographa. From the first letters of these three parts, the word "Tanakh" is derived, and used by Jews as the name of their Bible, the Christian Old Testament."






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"Tora" Quotes from Famous Books



... stand two angels, who not only teach it the whole Tora [the traditional interpretation of the Mosaic law], but also let it see all the joys of Paradise and all the torments of Hell. But, since it may not be that a child should come into the world endowed ...
— The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought • Alexander F. Chamberlain



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