A woman named Torah
Yes, well, Australian snowboarder Torah Bright is now "trending" after her nude photo breastfeeding her baby while doing a headstand made the news.
But I was curious about her name.
Wikipedia to the rescue
Her parents named her "Torah" after her sister Rowena learned from her Jewish piano teacher that the name referred to the Jewish name for the first five books of the Tanakh and meant "bearer of a great spiritual message" and suggested the name for her new sister.[2][3][4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torah_Bright
OK...
She is a Mormon, BTW
The first thing some of us wanted to know when Australian snowboarder Torah Bright, 23, won the women’s halfpipe last night in Vancouver was, “Is she or isn’t she?” Well, she’s not—she’s an observant Mormon, actually, who makes her winter home (Northern Hemisphere winter, that is) in Salt Lake City, Utah. But she is still proud of her name’s provenance, we learn from a profile on the official Australian site of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Her mother, it reports, “settled on the name Torah, the Jewish name for the first five books of the Bible, when [her other daughter] Rowena’s Jewish piano teacher told her the word also means ‘bearer of a great spiritual message.’” And now, bearer of a gold medal, too.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/in-praise-of-torah
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