Hebrew Bible Summaries-The Five Books of Moses

Many scholarly and academic books of translations and explanations of the Torah have been printed and made available to the English-speaking public. The intent of this book is not to serve as a translation of the text in scripture, or as a depiction of every detail mentioned in scripture, which has already been done justice to in the various works currently available. The intent of this book is to serve as a general outline and summary of the topics that are discussed in each Torah Portion together with their crucial details. Since I was a small child, I have always taken interest in the weekly Portion, as do many, and used various scholarly books that translate and explain the Portion. However, I felt that amongst all the available English [and even Hebrew] literature, there is one very basic non-particularly scholarly work that is fundamentally needed, and that is a basic summary and outline of the events in the Torah. How many of us sit through the weekly Torah reading in synagogue on Shabbat but have no knowledge of its content? How many of us have sat by our Shabbat table wanting to say something over on the Portion, but can

• | Author: Rabbi Yaakov Goldstein
• | Publisher: Independently published
• | Publication Date: Oct 14, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 301 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 172872435X
• | ISBN-13: 9781728724355