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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“The Torahs are always the first things we rescue from the sanctuary when there are fires,” said Frenkel, who has been with the synagogue for 40 years.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
Starting late in 1964, the trust began sending Torahs to synagogues around the world that needed a scroll for worship services.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2024
"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
In the old days, we knew this: we kept our ancestries in Bibles, in Torahs, and in oral tradition.
From Salon ● Jul. 1, 2018
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
