246. Public Torah Reading
TINW Torah Study
English - December 19, 2021 04:00 - 4 minutes - 2.95 MB - ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsJudaism Religion & Spirituality jennifer jaech biblical origins torah study tara keiter Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Public reading of passages from the Torah date back at least to the 1st century, but likely is hundreds of years older than that. The pandemic may have upended how some synagogues offer their public readings right now. Rabbi Janet Roberts led our group in a discussion of what we know about public readings of the Torah and what we might think about them today.