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Chumash (Judaism)
The Hebrew term ''Chumash'' (also Ḥumash; (ヘブライ語:חומש), or or Yiddish: ) is a Torah in printed form (i.e. codex) as opposed to a Torah scroll. The word comes from the Hebrew word for five, ''ḥamesh'' (חמש). A more formal term is ''Ḥamishah Ḥumshei Torah'', "five fifths of Torah". It is a Hebrew name for the Five Books of Moses, also known by the Latinised Greek term Pentateuch in common printed editions.
==Origin of the term==
The word "ḥumash" may be a vowel alteration of ''ḥomesh'', meaning "one-fifth", alluding to any one of the five books: as the Hebrew חומש has no vowel signs, it could be read either way. It could also be regarded as a back-formed singular of ''ḥumashim''/''ḥumshei'' (which is in fact the plural of ''ḥomesh'').
In early scribal practice there was a distinction between a Sefer Torah, containing the entire Pentateuch on a parchment scroll, and a copy of one of the five books on its own, which was generally bound in codex form, like a modern book, and had a lesser degree of sanctity. The term ''ḥomesh'' strictly applies to one of these. Thus, ''ḥomesh B'reshit'' strictly means "the Genesis fifth", but was misread as ''ḥumash, B'reshit'' and interpreted as meaning "The Pentateuch: Genesis", as if "ḥumash" was the name of the book and "Bereshit" the name of one of its parts. Compare the misunderstanding of "Tur" to mean the entirety of the Arba'ah Turim.
In the legal codes, such as Maimonides' ''Mishneh Torah,'' it is laid down that any copy of the Pentateuch which does not comply with the strict rules for a ''Sefer Torah'', for example because it is not a parchment scroll or contains vowel signs, has only the same sanctity as a copy of an individual book (''ḥomesh''). In this way, the word ''ḥomesh'' (or ''ḥumash'') came to have the extended sense of any copy of the Pentateuch other than a ''Sefer Torah''.
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