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Torah
thumb|An opened Torah scroll (Book of Genesis part).
Masoretic Text
authoritative text of the Tanakh in Rabbinic Judaism
documentary hypothesis
hypothesis that the Torah originated as a set of independent documents edited together by a later redactor
Simchat Torah
Jewish holiday marking the conclusion of public Torah readings
Aleppo Codex
10th century manuscript of the Hebrew Bible, written in Tiberias
Samaritan Pentateuch
Samaritan version of the first five Biblical books
Tawrat
holy book of given by God to Musa (Moses).
Torah ark
receptacle which contains a synagogue's Torah scrolls
Bible code
purported set of secret messages encoded within the Hebrew text of the Torah
Priestly Blessing
Hebrew prayer recited by Kohanim based on Numbers 6:23–27
Sefer Torah
handwritten copy of the Torah
Chumash
Hebrew printed Torah
Torah reading
Jewish religious tradition that involves the public reading of a set of passages from a Torah scroll
Mikraot Gedolot
edition of the Tanakh with the classic Jewish commentaries
Targum Onkelos
aramaic translation of the Five Books of Moses
Biblical and Talmudic units of measurement
units of measurement in Jewish religious texts
Torah study
studying the Torah, Talmud or other rabbinic literature
Tag
decoration drawn over some Hebrew letters in Jewish scrolls
Shiur
thumb|right|Shiur klali at Slabodka yeshiva (Bnei Brak)|Slabodka Yeshiva thumb|Gemara shiur at Tomchei Temimim|Toras Emes Yeshiva thumb|Rabbinical shiur delivered in Jerusalem thumb|Public shiur by Rabbi Ovadia Yosef at [[Bar-Ilan University, Machon synagogue]] thumb|Memorial shiur on the yarzheit of [[Rav Aharon Lichtenstein at Yeshivat Har Etzion]] thumb| 250px|right| Yom iyun, :he: מדרשת אוריה|Midreshet Oryah (click to enlarge) thumb| Sicha, Ulpana students thumb|Drosha by Rabbi Eliezer Shlomo Schick, [[Yavne'el Synagogue]]
Mosaic authorship
tradition that Moses was the author of the Torah; denied by the majority of scholars
Midrash HaGadol
14th century compilation of aggadic midrashim on the Torah taken from the two Talmuds and earlier Midrashim of Yemenite provenance.
Tanhuma
name given to three different collections of Torah aggadot (2 extant, 1 known only through citations)
hachnasat sefer torah
Jewish ceremony involving Torah scrolls
Torah finials
Damascus Pentateuch
10th-century Hebrew Pentateuch manuscript
list of capital crimes in the Torah
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