Immodest Meanings of the Torah. Hidden Treasures of Jewish Folklore

The Torah, or as Christians call it, the Pentateuch of Moses, is a great religious and historical-literary monument of all times and peoples. It is an integral part of the Christian Holy Scripture. And among the followers of Islam, the... heroes of the Torah are held in great respect. Orthodox Judaism teaches that the Pentateuch of Moses is revealed through the Oral Torah – a vast Jewish tradition that regulates questions of everyday life and morality. Moreover, the exclusive right to interpretation belongs to the rabbis, the sages of the past and present. No part of these interpretations can be deemed erroneous or outdated. These traditions are literally permeated with erotic themes and explicit physiological and domestic details. The flights of imagination of the sages are so boundless that at times it seems that such things could not possibly be invented – this is folkloric material, the likes of which may not exist elsewhere. It is precisely this great folklore, often hidden from the Jewish and even more so from the non-Jewish reader, that is revealed to us in the new book by Yuri Tabak "Immodest Meanings of the Torah".