The commandment to study the Law; an educational institution for orphans and poor children, supported by the community; in the United States, a Hebrew school for children

(lit., "the study of the Torah"): a (usually) part-time Torah school

literally, study of law; generally, parochial school

Hebrew for "the study of Torah," this refers to the instruction, discussion and debate over the interpretation of Torah that occurs in Jewish and rabbinic schools.

the school where children were taught Hebrew, the prayers and the Pentateuch.

Talmud Torah schools were created in the Jewish world, both Ashkenazic and Sephardic, as a form of public primary school for boys of modest backgrounds, where they were given an elementary education in Hebrew, the Scriptures (especially the Pentateuch), and the Talmud (and Halakhah). This was meant to prepare them for Yeshiva or, particularly in the movement's modern form, for Jewish education at a high school level. The Talmud Torah was modelled after the Cheder, a traditional form of schooling whose essential elements it incorporated, with changes appropriate to its public form rather than the heder's "private" financing through less formal or institutionalized mechanisms, including tuition fees and donations.