The Torah, or Moses Pentateuch, is included in the collection of the three most popular Jewish holy books - Tanah. This is a kind of "Jewish Bible", which is sometimes also called the Mosaic Books.
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The Tanach, which includes along with the Torah two more scriptures - Neviim and Ktuvim, was published in the Middle Ages. Then Christian censorship forced to release only one volume of each publication. The Torah is a sacred code of laws for Jews to enforce. In this holy book, the Torah refers to certain commandments or laws. Sometimes the Torah is also called in general all Jewish laws and their combination.
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The Jews believe that the author of the Torah was Moses, and he wrote down all the commandments and laws from the words of the Most High. True, there are different opinions regarding the timeline for writing it: some believe that the Torah recorded forty days while Moses was on Mount Sinai, on the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, others that for forty years, while the Jewish people wandered in the desert, and that was this book is completed in anticipation of the death of Moses.
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The text of the Torah is difficult to understand and study even for most Jews, so there are many comments on its individual provisions. These comments were published at different times for other people to understand. Some commentators describe and interpret literally every sentence of the Torah.
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It is believed that, in addition to the Torah in written form, oral information was also given to Moses, revealing the deeper meaning of the statements contained in the Written Torah. They tried to preserve this Oral Torah and passed on successive generations all in the same oral form, until in the 2nd century it was written in the form of the Talmud. Now versions of the Torah also include many commentaries by sages, from the Middle Ages to the 17th century.
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It is not without reason that the Torah is called because it consists of five books or sections. This is the Book of Genesis, the Book of Exodus, the Book of Leviticus, the Book of Numbers and Deuteronomy. It is logical that they carry a different semantic load. The book of Genesis tells how the world and the Jewish people were created.
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The book of Exodus is separated from other parts of the Torah by a prologue and epilogue, and it tells of how the Jewish people, led by Moses, came out of Egypt, as well as giving Moses the Torah in the form of the Tablets of the Testament, or a stone slab with the Ten Commandments. The Book of Leviticus speaks of priest law and temple services.
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About how Jews roamed the desert after leaving Egypt, the Book of Numbers tells. And Deuteronomy, according to the name, repeats all the laws and contents of books that were previously recorded. Deuteronomy is the dying speech of Moses.
