Mishneh Torah
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The Mishneh Torah, also known as Sefer Yad ha-Hazaka, is a code of Rabbinic Jewish religious law authored by Maimonides. The Mishneh Torah was compiled between 1170 and 1180 CE, while Maimonides was l
Maimonides (artist's conceptual drawing)
A page of a medieval Jerusalem Talmud manuscript, from the Cairo Geniza
A Torah scroll
The single scroll of the arm-tefillin
Talmud
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The Talmud is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism, and second in authority only to the Hebrew Bible, the first five books of which form the Torah along with the texts in Nevi'im and Ketuvim. It is a
Mishneh Torah
…strong and immediate opposition which focused on the absence of sources and the belief that the work appeared to be intended to supersede study of the Talmud. Maimonides responded to these criticisms, and the Mishneh Torah endures as an influential work in Jewish religious thought. According to several…
The Talmud on display in the Jewish Museum of Switzerland brings together parts from the first two Talmud prints by Daniel Bomberg and Ambrosius Froben.
A full set of the Babylonian Talmud
The Schottenstein Babylonian Talmud in a synagogue in Raanana, Israel