Pentateuch Wikipedia audio article

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article: Pentateuch Listening is a more natural way of learning when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC but spoken language has existed long ago. Learning by listening is a great way to: - increases imagination and understanding - improves your listening skills - improves your own spoken accent - learn while on the move - reduce eye strain Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio audio article. You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot you could try using a bone conduction headphone or a standard speaker instead of an earphone. You can find other Wikipedia audio articles too at: In case you dont find one that you were looking for put a comment. This video uses Google TTS en-US-Standard-D voice. SUMMARY Torah Hebrew: תורה Instruction Teaching or Law has a range of meanings. It can most specifically mean the first five books Pentateuch of the 24 books of the Tanakh and is usually printed with the rabbinic commentaries perushim. It can mean the continued narrative from the Book of Genesis to the end of the Tanakh Malachi and it can even mean the totality of Jewish teaching culture and practice whether derived from biblical texts or later rabbinic writings. Common to all these meanings Torah consists of the origin of Jewish peoplehood: their call into being by God their trials and tribulations and their covenant with their God which involves following a way of life embodied in a set of moral and religious obligations and civil laws halakha. In rabbinic literature the word Torah denotes both the five books Hebrew: תורה שבכתב Torah that is written and the Oral Torah תורה שבעל פה Torah that is spoken. The Oral Torah consists of interpretations and amplifications which according to rabbinic tradition have been handed down from generation to generation and are now embodied in the Talmud and Midrash. According to rabbinic tradition all of the teachings found in the Torah both written and oral were given by God through the prophet Moses some at Mount Sinai and others at the Tabernacle and all the teachings were written down by Moses which resulted in the Torah that exists today. According to the Midrash the Torah was created prior to the creation of the world and was used as the blueprint for Creation. The majority of Biblical scholars believe that the written books were a product of the Babylonian captivity c. 600 BCE based on earlier written and oral traditions which could only have arisen from separate communities within ancient Israel and that it was completed by the period of Achaemenid rule c. 400 BCE.Traditionally the words of the Torah are written on a scroll by a scribe sofer in Hebrew. A Torah portion is read publicly at least once every three days in the presence of a congregation. Reading the Torah publicly is one of the bases for Jewish communal life.,