# torah (תּוֹרָה)

pronounced: to-RAH


**Teaching, instruction**

## In Scripture

> This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel.
> — Deuteronomy 4:44 (The Torah names itself — the teaching Moses set before Israel)

> This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.
> — Joshua 1:8 (Torah as something meditated on and lived, not merely read)

> but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.
> — Psalm 1:2 (The Psalter opens by defining the blessed life as delight in Torah)

> They read in the book, in the law of God, distinctly; and they gave the sense, so that they understood the reading.
> — Nehemiah 8:8 (Ezra's public reading — the model for teaching Torah so people understand)


## How to read this entry

The definition comes from the IsraelForYou lexicon. Scripture quotations and their translation are named below; later tradition or modern usage is identified when it appears.


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