All Jewish people, please...!!??

Question

a)I know that your Torah is the first 5 books of our Christian Bible, but does your Torah also have books like Genesis, Exodus, etc?? And do they have names too??
b)And when is Rosh Hashanah??
c) What is Chanukkah about??

thanks
Peace to you all

P.S. and what does Migdal Ohr mean??

Answer 1

a) the names are Barashits, Shamot, Va'yicra, Bamidbar, Davarim look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torah

b) it goes by the lunar month, but it is around September look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosh_hashana

c)Chanukah is a celebration of the Jews defeating Babylonians, kicking them out of Israel, and the common know one is having a jar of one days worth of burning oil lasting 8 days. Look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanuka

Migdal Ohr means great light

Answer 2

a) Uh, Genesis and Exodus are the first two books of the Torah. But basically, the Jewish Bible, aka the "Tanach", is what Christians would refer to as the Old Testament albeit we view the original Hebrew as the Bible while anything else is a translation with varying degrees of accuracies.
In English, they would have the same names. In Hebrew, they are different. So, for example, Genesis is Bereshis (first word, "In the Beginning").
b) Rosh Hashana WAS this year Sept 23, 2006. It varies as it is based on the Hebrew Calendar. see www.bayt.org for an online hebrew calendar.
c) Long story. Look it up. :)

Answer 3

Yes, each book has names, that go by one of 2 names: Either one of the first few words (In the Beginning of, Names, He called, In the wilderness, words), or by a Hebrew term, from which the English was taken.
b) The first day of Tishrai, usually comes out sometime in September, depending on the lunar cycle.
c) We defeated the Greeks and Hellenized Jews, so we were able to free our Temple and used one jar of oil for 8 days, until more pure oil was made.
d)Tower of Light

Answer 4

BMCR got it right

Answer 5

ask JewishGirl. she knows what she's talking about.

and she's not racist.