Articles related to "Oral Law"

The Talmud is referred to by many names: the Mishnah, Gemara, Shas and Oral Law, and is unquestionably one of Judaism's most fascinating bodies of early religious work.

The first five books of the Tanakh, called the Torah, are considered by many Jews to have been divinely inspired through Moses; but how did they come into existence?

The Tanakh and Talmud state that there is a covenant between God and the Jewish People that entails a special responsibility - but why are Jews called the chosen ones?

Bernard Madoff's crimes dismayed the Jewish community not only because of the magnitude of their impact, but because such actions attack the very ethics of Judaism.