Humash
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Humash (IPA: [xuˈmɑʃ]) or Chumash (IPA: [ˈtʃumæʃ]) (Hebrew: חומש) is one name given to the Pentateuch in Judaism. The word comes from "chamesh (masc.)/ chamisha (fem.)", the Hebrew word for "five", because of the Five Books of Moses that comprise the Torah. ("Chumash" literally means "fifth" and refers to only each of the five books [which, of course, are not exact mathematical fifths of the whole], while the entire set is formally called "Chamisha Chumshei Torah," "The Five Fifths of the Torah." However, "Chumash" is now used to refer to the five books as a whole, as well as individual volumes.) The word chumash generally only refers to "book" bound editions of the Pentateuch, whereas the "scroll" form is called a Sefer Torah ("book [of the] Torah").
A more common use for the word, in modern Jewish parlance, is for an arrangement of the Torah, separated by parsha ("portion/s"), and containing, in addition to the text of each parsha, the text for each parsha from the Targum of Onkelos, as well as commentaries and interpretations from various sources, along with the haftarah for each parsha (Mikraot Gedolot).
[edit] Several Chumashim
- Etz Hayim (Published by the Jewish Publication Society of America ISBN 0-8276-0712-1)
- Stone Edition (Published by Artscroll/Mesorah Publishers: ISBN 0-89906-014-5)
- The Torah: A Modern Commentary. W. Gunther Plaut, ed. New York: Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 1981.fr:Houmach
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