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Four letters, fifty letters apart, starting from the first taw on the first verse, form the word תורה ( Torah ). The Bible code ( Hebrew: הצופן התנ"כי, hatzofen hatanachi ), also known as the Torah code, is a purported set of encoded words within a Hebrew text of the Torah that, according to proponents, has predicted significant ...
The Deuteronomic Code is the name given by academics to the law code set out in chapters 12 to 26 of the Book of Deuteronomy in the Hebrew Bible. The code outlines a special relationship between the Israelites and Yahweh and provides instructions covering "a variety of topics including religious ceremonies and ritual purity, civil and criminal law, and the conduct of war".
The Bible Code. The Bible Code is a book by Michael Drosnin, first published by Simon & Schuster in 1997. A sequel, Bible Code II: The Countdown, was published by Penguin Random House in 2002, and also reached New York Times Best-Seller status. In 2010, Bible Code III: Saving the World was published by Worldmedia, Inc., completing a trilogy.
The Torah ( / ˈtɔːrə, ˈtoʊrə /; Biblical Hebrew: תּוֹרָהTōrā, "Instruction", "Teaching" or "Law") is the compilation of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, namely the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. [1] The Torah is known as the Pentateuch ( / ˈpɛntətjuːk /) or the Five Books of Moses by ...
"Mishnah" is the name given to the 63 tractates that HaNasi systematically codified, which in turn are divided into six "orders." Unlike the Torah, in which, for example, laws of the Sabbath are scattered throughout the books of Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers, all the Mishnaic laws of the Sabbath are located in a single tractate called Shabbat.
The Hebrew Bible comprises the Torah (the five books of Moses), the Neviim (the books of the Prophets), and the Ketuvim (the "Writings"). The Hebrew Bible is also known as the Tanakh, an acronym from the initial Hebrew letters of these three words; and as the Mikra, meaning "that which is read". Judaism has traditionally held that, along with ...
The 613 commandments include "positive commandments", to perform an act ( mitzvot aseh ), and "negative commandments", to abstain from an act ( mitzvot lo taaseh ). The negative commandments number 365, which coincides with the number of days in the solar year, and the positive commandments number 248, a number ascribed to the number of bones ...
Bo (parashah) Bo ( בֹּא —in Hebrew, the command form of "go," or "come," and the first significant word in the parashah, in Exodus 10:1) is the fifteenth weekly Torah portion ( פָּרָשָׁה , parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the third in the book of Exodus. The parashah constitutes Exodus 10:1–13:16.