A central aspect of the holiday observance is men, women, and children hearing the Ten Commandments read at synagogue from a Torah scroll, as well as joining family and friends for festive meals.

IDF reserve soldiers and Orthodox Jews reading from a Torah scroll at dawn. (credit: MICHAEL GILADI/FLASH90) I have endured the Dust Bowl, suffered depression and disillusionment. I have ...

How exactly is it written in the Torah Scroll? Although all Torah scrolls ... and his son ran back into the smoldering synagogue to gather the pages of the Crown! From that day on, the writing ...

And even the king himself is subject to the law, and therefore, he must write for himself a Torah scroll that would accompany him all the days of his life, and not deviate from its instructions.

He says: “In a synagogue, congregants kiss the Torah scroll while it is still rolled tight, but when we unroll and read it, most of us begin to feel challenges. Torah has much that is profound ...

Constructed from gold and acacia wood, it housed the first and second tablets, a Torah scroll, Aaron’s staff, and a jar of manna. According to Chazal, the total weight of the Ark and its ...

Torah scrolls, handwritten and sacred to generations of Jews, were carried through the newly completed Adas Israel Congregation on East Third Street. But it wasn’t just rabbis or congregants ...

Torah scroll is raised and displayed at Western Wall (credit: REUTERS/AMIR COHEN) For religious Jews, this battle is more readily framed within the sweep of our historical journey. We have ...

In another cabinet, the binding of a 500-year-old Carolingian gospel is fraying, its pages thick and soft with ... A centuries-old Torah scroll and Jewish scriptures at the library.Credit: Flavio ...

Jewish people will gather at Chabad of Prescott on Monday, June 2 at 5:00pm, to hear the reading of the Ten Commandments from a handwritten Torah scroll. The short family-friendly reading of the ...