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means The foundational text of Judaism — the Five Books of Moses — containing law, narrative, and teaching that forms the bedrock of Jewish religious life and practice.

from From Hebrew torah, meaning 'instruction' or 'teaching,' rooted in the verb yarah, 'to teach' or 'to guide' — literally 'to throw' or 'point,' as in pointing the way. So at its root, Torah isn't primarily 'law' (that's a Greek-filtered mistranslation via nomos) but something closer to 'guidance' — the sense of being shown a direction rather than handed a rulebook.