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In Judaism , a rabbi is a teacher of Torah . This title derives from the ___MASK86___ word ' , meaning " My Master " ( irregular plural ' ), which is the way a student would address a master of Torah . The word " master " "" literally means " great one ". The Vltava is the longest river within the ___MASK40___ Republic , running southeast along the Bohemian Forest and then north across Bohemia , through eský Krumlov , eské Budjovice and Prague , and finally merging with the Elbe at Mlník . It is commonly referred to as the ___MASK40___ national river . Europe is a continent that comprises the westernmost part of Eurasia . Europe is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north , the Atlantic Ocean to the west , and the Mediterranean Sea to the south . To the east and southeast , Europe is generally considered as separated from Asia by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains , the Ural River , the Caspian and Black Seas , and the waterways of the ___MASK20___ Straits . Yet the non - oceanic borders of Europe  a concept dating back to classical antiquity  are arbitrary . The primarily physiographic term " continent " as applied to Europe also incorporates cultural and political elements whose discontinuities are not always reflected by the continent ' s current overland boundaries . Prague is the capital and largest city of the ___MASK40___ Republic . It is the 14th largest city in the European Union . It is also the historical capital of Bohemia . Situated in the north - west of the country on the Vltava river , the city is home to about 1 . 26 million people , while its larger urban zone is estimated to have a population of nearly 2 million . The city has a temperate climate , with warm summers and chilly winters . Shlomo Ephraim ben Aaron Luntschitz ( 1550 -- 21 April , 1619 ) was a rabbi , poet and Torah commentator , best known for his Torah commentary Keli Yakar . He served as the Rabbi of Prague from 1604 - 1619 . The ___MASK40___ Republic , also known by the short name Czechia , is a nation state in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west , Austria to the south , Slovakia to the east and Poland to the northeast . The ___MASK40___ Republic covers an area of with mostly temperate continental climate and oceanic climate . It is a unitary parliamentary republic , has 10 . 5 million inhabitants and the capital and largest city is Prague , with over 1 . 2 million residents . The ___MASK40___ Republic includes the historical territories of Bohemia , Moravia , and ___MASK40___ Silesia . Bohemia is the westernmost and largest historical region of the ___MASK40___ lands in the present - day ___MASK40___ Republic . In a broader meaning , Bohemia sometimes refers to the entire ___MASK40___ territory , including Moravia and ___MASK40___ Silesia , especially in a historical context , such as the Lands of the Bohemian Crown ruled by Bohemian kings . The Tanakh ( or ; also " Tenakh ", " Tenak ", " Tanach ") or Mikra or ___MASK86___ Bible is the canonical collection of Jewish texts , which is also a textual source for the Christian Old Testament . These texts are composed mainly in Biblical ___MASK86___ , with some passages in Biblical Aramaic ( in the books of Daniel , Ezra and a few others ). The traditional ___MASK86___ text is known as the Masoretic Text . The Tanakh consists of twenty - four books . Judaism ( from , derived from ___MASK64___ , originally from ___MASK86___ , " Yehudah ", " Judah "; in ___MASK86___ : , " Yahadut ", the distinctive characteristics of the Judean ethnos ) encompasses the religion , philosophy , culture and way of life of the Jewish people . Judaism is an ancient monotheistic religion , with the Torah as its foundational text ( part of the larger text known as the Tanakh or ___MASK86___ Bible ), and supplemental oral tradition represented by later texts such as the Midrash and the Talmud . Judaism is considered by religious Jews to be the expression of the covenantal relationship that God established with the Children of Israel . With between 14 . 5 and 17 . 4 million adherents worldwide , Judaism is the tenth - largest religion in the world . The Torah (" instruction , teaching "), or in Christianity , the Pentateuch (" five books "), is the central reference of the religious Judaic tradition . It has a range of meanings . It can most specifically mean the first five books of the twenty - four books of the Tanakh , and it usually includes the rabbinic commentaries ('). The term " Torah " means instruction and offers a way of life for those who follow it ; it can mean the continued narrative from Book of Genesis to the end of the Tanakh , and it can even mean the totality of Jewish teaching , culture and practice . Common to all these meanings , Torah consists of the foundational narrative of Jewish peoplehood : their call into being by God , their trials and tribulations , and their covenant with their God , which involves following a way of life embodied in a set of moral and religious obligations and civil laws ('). The Book of Genesis ( from the ___MASK97___ Vulgate , in turn borrowed or transliterated from ___MASK64___  , meaning " origin " " Brš ", " In [ the ] beginning ") is the first book of the ___MASK86___ Bible ( the Tanakh ) and the Christian Old Testament .