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Hebrew and Aramaic.

  • 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 Hebrew Bible, 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).
  • 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).

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