Torah

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The Torah as cosmic blueprint: Jewish traditions about the creation, revelation, and infinite depth of the Five Books of Moses.

Ben Sira Compared to Jeremiah's Lamentations

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Ben Sira's teacher is freaking out. The boy has just rattled off proverbs for every letter of the Hebrew alphabet with the confidence of a seasoned sage, and his educator can only ...

Ben Sira Learns All of Torah in Seven Years

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According to the Alphabet of Ben Sira, a medieval text composed between 700 and 1000 CE, the child prodigy Ben Sira mastered the entirety of human and divine knowledge in just seve...