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On Shavuot the custom is to stay up all night studying Torah to mark the date that God gave the Ten Commandments. We pray and read the Torah (Exodus 19-20), and eating dairy foods is customary.
Traditional Judaism is founded on the 613 commandments of the Torah. Even nontraditional denominations follow the basic commandments in reinvented ways. All of the commandments for both traditional and nontraditional Jews can be summed up on this famous quote from Rabbi Hillel: What is hateful to you, do not do to another. That is the whole Torah. The rest is commentary. Now go study.
On Mount Sinai, God spoke the Ten Commandments to the entire assembled Israelite nation (Exodus ch.19-20) of some two million people. He then taught the Torah to Moses for forty days, and at the end of that time, He gave Moses the two stone tablets of the Ten Commandments (Exodus 31:18).
The Torah is the Five Books of Moses. It is the holiest of Jewish books, and it contains God's commandments for the Israelites. The Tanach, which is the Hebrew Bible, contains the Torah, the Prophets and the Scriptures. Together, these make up the written law.
הלכה (Halachah), which consists of 613 commandments
If you're referring to the Jewish Bible, that is called the Tanach. The word Tanach is an acronym made up of the names of its three sections: Torah (Teachings), Nevi'im (Prophets), K'tuvim (Writings). The Torah is made up of: Bereishit (Genesis), Shemot (Exodus), Vayikra (Leviticus), Bamidbar (Numbers), and Devarim (Deuteronomy).
From the time of Abraham to Moses, the laws were not formally written down. From the time of Moses up until today, The Torah, (first 5 books of the Bible) contains the 613 commandments that the Hebrews had to follow and that all Jews should follow, in one form or another.
Torah is made up of the 5 books of Moshe. It is the basis of Judaism. Nevi'im are all nevi who lived at later points in Jewish history.
Genesis is the 1st of 5 books. this set is called the TORAH. The TORAH is a part of the TANAKH. The TANAKH is made up of the T=TORAH, NA=NEVIIM, KH=KHETUVIM
Originally, the Torah was only handwritten on a single scroll, you will still find these versions in synagogues. It is possible to get the complete Tanach (Jewish Bible), which is made up of the Torah, Nevi'im, and K'tuvim, in a single book.
A mixed number is made up of a whole number and a fraction.