What is the basic writing of Judaism?

Answer 1

The Torah comes in two parts, written and oral. The written part is refered to by Christian's as the "Old Testment", the Oral part is the Mishna which explains the Hebrew Bible, the Talmud then discusses and expands on the Mishna. Two talmuds exists, the Babylonian, and Jerusalem Talmud. Of these the Babylonian is the authoritive where there is a dispute. In addition to this Judiasm ruilings are passed on through both codifectaions of law and responsa where questions about law have been asked and answered