Oral Torah
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The Five Books of Moses, what most people call the Torah, are considered the most ancient and sacred possessions of the Jews and Judaism. The teachings written there form the original core of the Jewi
A modern translation of Rashi's commentary on the Chumash, published by Artscroll
Yaakov Tzvi Mecklenburg's Haketav VeHaKabbalah deals with the relationship between the written and oral Torah.
A relief depicting the development of the Oral Law at Diaspora Museum, Tel Aviv
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
Oral Torah
…of that vast body of sacred Jewish teachings that were memorized and repeated orally and were not written down formally until much later. According to The Talmud, the oral Torah was given to Moses at Mount Sinai, to accompany the written Torah, and is fully binding upon the Jewish people. This holistic Jewish…
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 page of a medieval Jerusalem Talmud manuscript, from the Cairo Geniza
A full set of the Babylonian Talmud
The Schottenstein Babylonian Talmud in a synagogue in Raanana, Israel