Chumash (also ?umash) (Hebrew: ?????, pronounced [?u'ma?] or pronounced [hu'ma?] or Yiddish: pronounced ['?ume?]) is one of the Hebrew names for the Five Books of Moses, also known as the Pentateuch or Torah. The word comes from the Hebrew word for five, ?amesh. A more formal term is ?amishah ?umshei Torah, "five fifths of the Law".
Siddur (Hebrew: ??????; plural ??????? siddurim) is a Jewish prayer book, containing a set order of daily prayers. This article discusses how some of these prayers evolved, and how the siddur, as it is known today has developed. A separate article, Jewish services, discusses the prayers that appear in the siddur, and when they are said.
Book of Psalms (Tiberian: T?hillîm; Modern: Tehillim, ?????????, or "praises"), commonly referred to simply as Psalms, is a book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Bible. Taken together, its 150 poems "express virtually the full range of Israel's religious faith."[1]
Tanakh (Hebrew: ?????"???, pronounced [ta'na?] or [t?'nax]; also Tenakh, Tenak, Tanach) is a name used in Judaism for the canon of the Hebrew Bible. The Tanakh is also known as the Masoretic Text or the Miqra. The name is an acronym formed from the initial Hebrew letters of the Masoretic Text's three traditional subdivisions: The Torah ("Teaching", also known as the Five Books of Moses), Nevi'im ("Prophets") and Ketuvim("Writings")—hence TaNaKh. The name "Miqra" (????), meaning "that which is read", is an alternative Hebrew term for the Tanakh. The books of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) were relayed with an accompanying oral tradition passed on by each generation, called the Oral Torah. |