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Tal·mud

(täl′mo͝od, tăl′məd)

n. Judaism

The collection of ancient Rabbinic writings consisting of the Mishnah and the Gemara, constituting the basis of religious authority in Orthodox Judaism.

[Mishnaic Hebrew talmûd, learning, instruction, from Hebrew lāmad, to learn; see lmd in Semitic roots.]

Tal·mu′dic (täl-mo͞o′dĭk, -myo͞o′-, tăl-), Tal·mu′di·cal (-dĭ-kəl) adj.

Tal′mud·ist (täl′mo͝o-dĭst, tăl′mə-) n.

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Talmud

(ˈtælmʊd)

1. (Judaism) the primary source of Jewish religious law, consisting of the Mishnah and the Gemara

2. (Judaism) either of two recensions of this compilation, the Palestinian Talmud of about 375 ad, or the longer and more important Babylonian Talmud of about 500 ad

[C16: from Hebrew talmūdh, literally: instruction, from lāmadh to learn]

Talˈmudic, Talˈmudical adj

ˈTalmudism n

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Tal•mud

(ˈtɑl mʊd, ˈtæl məd)

n.

1. the collection of Jewish law and tradition consisting of the Mishnah and the Gemara.

2. the Gemara.

[1525–35; < Hebrew talmūdh literally, instruction]

Tal•mud′ic, Tal•mud′i•cal, adj.

Tal′mud•ism, n.

Talmud

With the Tenakh, Judaism’s two most sacred collections of writings. This is a collection of legal and ethical writings, history, and folkore.

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Talmud - the collection of ancient rabbinic writings on Jewish law and tradition (the Mishna and the Gemara) that constitute the basis of religious authority in Orthodox Judaism

Gemara - the second part of the Talmud consisting primarily of commentary on the Mishna

Mishna, Mishnah - the first part of the Talmud; a collection of early oral interpretations of the scriptures that was compiled about AD 200

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Talmud

[ˈtælmʊd] N → Talmud m

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[ˈtælmʊd] n → Talmud m

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I HAD rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.

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``I swear by the Talmud,'' said the Jew, ``that your valour has been misled in that matter.

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Set in 1068, Rashi's Daughters: A Novel of Life, Love and Talmud in Medieval France is a novel about a winemaker and Talmud scholar, who undertakes an action that would be viewed negatively by the community if it became known--he dares to teach the Talmud to his three daughters.

Rashi's Daughters

Her father sent her to study Talmud where she was the lone female amongst the male students.

A Woman's Voice: Sarah Foner, Hebrew Author of the Haskalah

Literary critic Adam Kirsch is reading a page of Talmud a day, along with Jews around the world.

If a Man Gives a Woman a Lamb in Exchange for Sex

The first big Talmud burning was in Paris, there in the plaza of the Notre Dame Cathedral."

Notre Dame Fire May Be Divine Punishment, Says Prominent Settler Rabbi

Printing the Talmud: Complete Editions, Tractates, and Other Works and the Associated Presses from the Mid-17th Century Through the 18th Century

Joseph Skibell shifts his incisive gaze from fiction to the Talmud in Six Memos from the Last Millennium, a learned, interdisciplinary dance through Judaism's theological legal canon.

Six Memos from the Last Millennium; A Novelist Reads the Talmud

Some of these discrepancies between Ezekiel and the Torah are discussed in the Talmud (TB Menahot 45a), which resolves them by offering exegetical reinterpretations of three of the passages in Ezekiel.