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A Torah scroll ( Hebrew: סֵפֶר תּוֹרָה, Sefer Torah, lit. "Book of Torah"; plural: סִפְרֵי תוֹרָה Sifrei Torah) is a handwritten copy of the Torah, meaning the five books of Moses (the first books of the Hebrew Bible ). The Torah scroll is mainly used in the ritual of Torah reading during Jewish prayers.
Commentary on the Mishna (Arabic Kitab al-Siraj, translated into Hebrew as Pirush Hamishnayot), written in Classical Arabic using the Hebrew alphabet. This was the first full commentary ever written on the entire Mishnah, which took Maimonides seven years to complete.
An aliyah (or aliyah, Hebrew Hebrew: עליה; pl. עליות, aliyot; "ascent" or "going up") is the calling of a member of a Jewish congregation up to the bimah for a segment of the formal Torah reading. A person receiving an aliyah is called an oleh (male) or olah (female). The person who receives the aliyah goes up to the bimah before the ...
Niqqud. Let the waters be collected". In Hebrew orthography, niqqud or nikud ( Hebrew: נִקּוּד, Modern: nikúd, Tiberian: niqqūḏ, "dotting, pointing" or Hebrew: נְקֻדּוֹת, Modern: nekudót, Tiberian: nəquddōṯ, "dots") is a system of diacritical signs used to represent vowels or distinguish between alternative ...
Altaschith ( Hebrew: אל תשחית; Hebrew pronunciation: [ˈ (ʔ)al taʃˈχit]) is a Hebrew phrase sometimes translated "do not destroy". It was used in the titles of Psalms 57, 58, 59, and 75. Scholars have not reached agreement about its meaning, but it may have been a reference to an ancient song whose tune was to be used in singing the ...
The Hebrew alphabet ( Hebrew: אָלֶף־בֵּית עִבְרִי, [a] Alefbet ivri ), known variously by scholars as the Ktav Ashuri, Jewish script, square script and block script, is traditionally an abjad script used in the writing of the Hebrew language and other Jewish languages, most notably Yiddish, Ladino, Judeo-Arabic, and Judeo-Persian.
The holiest book is the Orit (meaning "law") or Octateuch: the Five Books of Moses plus Joshua, Judges and Ruth. The rest of the Bible has secondary importance. They possess the Book of Lamentations from the traditional Hebrew canon, as part of the Book of Jeremiah, as in the Orthodox Tewahedo biblical canon.
אגרת הקדש, אגה״ק ( Igeret HaKodesh) - 1) ( Chasidism) Holy Letter; a volume of the Tanya. 2) A treatise by the Ramban on marriage. אגרת התשובה, אגה״ת ( Igeret HaT'shuvah) - ( Chasidism) lit. Letter of Teshuvah; a volume of the Tanya. אגרות קודש, אג״ק ( Igrot Kodesh) - Holy Letters.