What is the Talmud? | Judaism 101

The Talmud, which can be translated as “instruction” or “learning”, is a central text of Rabbinic Judaism. It is also traditionally referred to as Shas, a Hebrew abbreviation of shisha sedarim, the “six orders”. The Talmud has two components. The first part is the Mishnah, the written compendium of Judaism’s “Oral Torah”. The second part […]