• According to Rabbinic Judaism, the Oral Torah or Oral Law (Hebrew: תּוֹרָה שֶׁבְּעַל־פֶּה‎, romanized: Tōrā šebbəʿal-pe) are statutes and legal interpretations...
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    literature, the word Torah denotes both the five books (תורה שבכתב‎ "Torah that is written") and the Oral Torah (תורה שבעל פה‎, "Torah that is spoken")....
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    Rabbinic Judaism (category Oral Torah)
    Written Torah (Torah she-be-Khetav) and the Oral Torah (Torah she-be-al Peh) from God. The Oral Torah, transmitted orally, explains the Written Torah. At...
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  • Pharisees (category Oral Torah)
    Written Torah and rejecting Prophets, Writings, and doctrines such as the Oral Torah and the resurrection of the dead. Josephus (c. 37 – c. 100 CE), believed...
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    scripture, the supplemental Oral Torah is represented by later texts, such as the Midrash and the Talmud. The Hebrew-language word torah can mean "teaching",...
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  • collective body of Jewish religious laws that are derived from the Written and Oral Torah. Halakha is based on biblical commandments (mitzvot), subsequent Talmudic...
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    Mishnah (section Oral law)
    is the first major written collection of the Jewish oral traditions that are known as the Oral Torah. It is also the first major work of rabbinic literature...
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    of the Written and Oral Torah. In Rabbinic Judaism, the Torah consists of both the written Torah (Pentateuch) and a tradition of oral law, much of it later...
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  • Israel Land of Israel Tanakh Torah Chumash–a Torah in printed form Nevi'im Ketuvim Oral Torah Talmud (as encompassing the main Oral Law) Jerusalem Talmud Babylonian...
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  • The Torah (lit. 'teaching'), both written and oral, tells the story of this covenant, and provides Jews with the terms of the covenant. The Oral Torah is...
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  • "Written Instruction" (Torah she-bi-khtav תורה שבכתב) comprises the Torah and the rest of the Tanakh; the "Oral Instruction" (Torah she-be'al peh תורה שבעל...
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    Mishnah, the central compilation of the Oral Torah in Rabbinic Judaism, the oral component of the Written Torah, contains a tractate on the red heifer...
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    Talmud (category Oral Torah)
    components: the Mishnah (משנה, c. 200 CE), a written compendium of the Oral Torah; and the Gemara (גמרא, c. 500 CE), an elucidation of the Mishnah and related...
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    Gemara (category Oral Torah)
    often ask where in the Torah the Mishnah derives a particular law. See Talmudic hermeneutics and Oral Torah #The interplay of the Oral and Written Law. Daf...
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  • in the written Torah without any additional Oral Law or explanation. Unlike mainstream Rabbinic Judaism, which regards the Oral Torah, codified in the...
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  • hostile. The Sadducees rejected the Oral Torah as proposed by the Pharisees. Rather, they saw the Written Torah as the sole source of divine authority...
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  • List of Talmudic tractates (category Oral Torah)
    The Mishnah consists of six divisions known as Sedarim or Orders. The Babylonian Talmud has Gemara — rabbinical analysis of and commentary on the Mishnah...
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    the text of the Tanakh to the entire Oral Torah. Some examples of traditional religious teachings: The study of Torah is "equal to all" of the mitzvot of...
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    Sifrei Kodesh (redirect from Torah books)
    for books of the Tanakh, the Oral Torah (Mishnah and Talmud) or any work of rabbinic literature. Works unrelated to Torah study are rarely called sefer...
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    Aggadah (category Oral Torah)
    Aggadah is part of Judaism's Oral Torah, the traditions providing the authoritative interpretation of the Written Torah. In this context, the widely-held...
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    God. The term primarily refers to the Torah or the first five books of the Hebrew Bible. The Law of Moses or Torah of Moses (Hebrew: תֹּורַת מֹשֶׁה‎, Torat...
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  • derived from the Torah's books of Leviticus and Deuteronomy. Their details and practical application, however, are set down in the Oral Torah (eventually codified...
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    came to Shammai and asked how many Torahs there were. Shammai answered "two": the written Torah and the Oral Torah. The gentile did not believe him and...
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    congregations on the issue of the Talmud and the Oral Torah. There are congregations which believe that adherence to the Oral Law, as encompassed by the Talmud, is...
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  • rejected the Oral Torah, did not eat heated food on Shabbat (as heated food appears to be prohibited in the written section of the Torah). To express...
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    culture Oral history Oral law Oral Torah Oral Tradition Journal Oral-formulaic composition Orality Panchatantra Parampara Patha, Śrauta Secondary orality Traditional...
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  • times achieving even canonical status as part of Oral Torah. It is a mystical commentary on the Torah, written in an artificial mixture of several Aramaic...
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    works contain early interpretations and commentaries on the Written Torah and Oral Torah (spoken law and sermons), as well as non-legalistic rabbinic literature...
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    Originally, Kabbalistic knowledge was believed to be an integral part of the Oral Torah, given by God to Moses on Mount Sinai around the 13th century BCE according...
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    House of David, studying Torah and occupied with commandments like his father David, according to the written and oral Torah, and he will impel all of...
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