The Talmud

The Talmud

• The Talmud is the second most important 

Jewish sacred writing.

• It is a huge book of civil and religious laws and ethical teachings.

• It contains layer upon layer of interpretations of the Torah made by rabbis between the 1st and 5th centuries.

• It is a written record of the oral Torah (the Halakhah).

• The Halakhah contains prescribed ways to apply the commandments in the Torah to daily life.

• It includes laws about ritual purity and food.