For Judaism, the Torah is the Law. According to Jewish tradition, it involves the totality of divine revelation and teaching given to the people of Israel. Considering the importance of Moses in this process, both denominations sometimes refer to the Torah as the Law of Moses, the Mosaic Law, and even the written law of Moses: since in Judaism, the Torah comprises both the written and the written law. oral law.7 This is not arbitrary since its strict sense, the term Torah refers specifically to the first five biblical books, the Pentateuch, which is also known as the five books of Moses.8 In Hebrew they are called Jamisha Jumshéy Torah (חֲמִשָּׁה חֻמְשֵׁי תּוֹרָה— "The Five Fifths of the Torah"),
In its broadest sense, when the term Torah implies all the books of the Hebrew Bible, the Jews often refer to it as "Tanach" (תַּנַ"ךְ). It is an acronym to designate the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible. acronym is formed by three consonants, TaNaJ, which are in turn the initials of the Hebrew terms that designate the three sections that make up the Hebrew Bible: T for Torah (Pentateuch), N for Nevi'im (Prophets) and J for Ketuvim (Writings).
