What are the teachings about the Torah and record of Jewish law?

Answer 1

The Talmud is a set of volumes which teach about the Torah and constitute a record of Jewish law. More information:

• The Talmud contains the Oral Torah of the Jewish people.
• The Talmud serves to clarify the brief verses of the Torah and Tanakh (Hebrew Bible).
• The Talmud, after the Torah, is considered the primary text of Jewish learning.

Answer 2

The Talmud is a set of volumes which teach about the Torah and constitute a record of Jewish law.

More information:

• The Talmud contains the Oral Torah of the Jewish people.
  
• The Talmud serves to clarify the brief verses of the Torah and Tanakh (Hebrew Bible).
  
• The Talmud, after the Torah, is considered the primary text of Jewish learning.
  
• The Talmud contains, in addition to Torah-matters, some mathematics, geometry and trigonometry, medicine, astronomy, and advice on a large range of problems and situations.
  
• The Talmud includes information on the lives and personalities of the Sages, from Abraham down to the writing of the Talmud.
  
• The Talmud was kept entirely orally, and learned by heart, from the time of Moses until it was written 1800 years later (1500 years ago). (See: Jewish history timeline)
  
• The Talmud contains the Mishna (relatively brief paragraphs of law, in Hebrew) and Gemara (explanations of the Mishna, in Aramaic and Hebrew).
  
• The Talmud has thousands of published commentaries.
  
• The Talmud contains 63 tractates (volumes) in 2711 leaves (double pages). New printed editions maintain the same pagination as earlier ones.
  
• The Talmud has been banned, censored and burned many times by enemies of the Jews.
  

Some of its books are:
A tractate (volume) about the daily blessings (Berakhot)
A tractate about Shabbat
A tractate about Passover (Pesachim)
A tractate about Rosh Hashanah
A tractate about Yom Kippur (Yoma)
A tractate about Purim (Megillah)
A tractate about marriage (Ketubot)
A tractate about vows (Nedarim)
A tractate about divorce (Gittin)
Three tractates containing laws of torts, damages, property etc. (the three Bavot)
A tractate about Jewish courts (Sanhedrin)
A tractate about the prohibition of idolatry (Avodah Zarah)
A tractate about the offerings (Zevachim)
A tractate about the laws of keeping kosher (Chullin).

Answer 3

The Talmud is the record of Jewish law; all Jewish law codes (Maimonides; Shulchan Arukh) are based upon it and must not contradict it. The Talmud also expands and comments upon the Torah.