“A Torah scholar should not live in a town that doesn’t have a court of law, a charity fund, a synagogue, a public bath house, a public toilet, a doctor, a mohel, a notary, a slaughterer, and a teacher.”
—Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 17b
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Pronunced: TORE-uh, Origin: Hebrew, the Five Books of Moses.
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