Torah
noun
Also the Torah the five books containing the Law as revealed to Moses, constituting the first of the three divisions of Jewish Scripture.
Torahs
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pluralof Torah.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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"We were taking the Torahs and the last Jews out of the city. The Torahs will go back, the synagogue will be reopened. Once again there will be Jewish life in Antakya," he said.
From Reuters ● Mar. 7, 2023
Torahs, menorahs, mezuzas — the rabbis are on the lookout for anything that might be of holy significance to the many Jewish families who lived in Champlain Towers.
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2021
In the old days, we knew this: we kept our ancestries in Bibles, in Torahs, and in oral tradition.
From Salon ● Jul. 1, 2018
She packed two of the synagogue’s Torahs in her trunk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2017
Some Jewish financiers erected gymnasia in Vilna and Warsaw, improved the condition of the hadarim, and turned many Talmud Torahs into technical schools.
From The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Jacob S. Raisin
