What Is The Talmud? - Explained by Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz

What is the Talmud or Gemara? How is it different from the Bible or Torah?
Here Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz explains what the Talmud is, and how it should be studied.
Stay tuned for more priceless teachings from the great sage and mystic Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz.
Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz (May he rest in peace) was a teacher, philosopher, social critic and prolific author who has been hailed by Time magazine as a "once-in-a-millennium scholar." His lifelong work in Jewish education earned him the Israel Prize, his country’s highest honor.
Born in Jerusalem in 1937 to secular parents, Rabbi Even-Israel Steinsaltz studied physics and chemistry at the Hebrew University. Following graduation, he established several experimental schools and, at the age of 24, became Israel’s youngest school principal.
In 1965, he began his monumental Hebrew translation and commentary on the Talmud. To date, he has published 38 of the anticipated 46 volumes. The Rabbi’s classic work of Kabbalah, The Thirteen Petalled Rose, was first published in 1980 and now appears in eight languages. In all, Rabbi Even-Israel Steinsaltz has authored some 60 books and hundreds of articles on subjects ranging from zoology to theology to social commentary.
Continuing his work as a teacher and spiritual mentor, Rabbi Even-Israel Steinsaltz established a network of schools and educational institutions in Israel and the former Soviet Union. He has served as scholar in residence at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Studies in Washington, D.C. and the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton University. His honorary degrees included doctorates from Yeshiva University, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Bar Ilan University, Brandeis University, and Florida International University.
He passed away in Jerusalem in 2020 at the age of 83. May his memory be a blessing.

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בס'ד May Hashem elevate his Neshama!!

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Can I purchase a copy I'm very much interested.

[@yitzfriedman1282]

Well said!

[@OMARKHAN970]

Why don't you follow Torah which was given to Mosa (AS) Moses and his brother Haroon (AS) but you follow talmud which is written by your ancestors and plus why does your talmud makes fun of god and prophet jesus Hazrat ESA ibne Maryam (AS) ?

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The oral torah came before the written torah. It was given to Moses at Mount Sinai and then passed down from parent to child through the generations. The Torah is the sparknotes. You can't follow the Torah without the oral law, which give the details. For example, it says in the Torah that "you shall afflict yourselves." What does that mean? Well, the Jewish people knew what it meant. The details were not written down because the oral tradition is LIVING TORAH. You have to practice it, so it is not dead words on paper.

[@garlandjones7709]

I've seen this kind of explanation what seems like a thousand times. If the oral Torah was given to Moses at Mount Sinai when did the Jewish people stop passing it down and lose it before the Mishnah came?

[@Jmriccitelli]

G-d bless the Torah

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The Talmud is the word of man and not God!

[@FeastofChamps]

The oral torah came before the written torah. It was given to Moses at Mount Sinai and then passed down from parent to child through the generations. The Torah is the sparknotes. You can't follow the Torah without the oral law, which give the details. For example, it says in the Torah that "you shall afflict yourselves." What does that mean? Well, the Jewish people knew what it meant. The details were not written down because the oral tradition is LIVING TORAH. You have to practice it, so it is not dead words on paper.

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@@FeastofChamps The oral law was supposedly given to the seventy elders that waited for Moses halfway up the mountain. In reality they are the words of man and not God. The word of God was spoken through His only begotten son, the archangel 'Who is as God' whom became the 'son of man, Christ Jesus. And whoever it is that does not listen to or act upon his words will answer before God. Wise up my friend time is running short!

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@@G-T Moses instructed the Jewish people to perform kosher slaughter "as I have commanded you" (Deuteronomy 12:21). Yet nowhere in the written text of the Torah do we find even a hint of one of the intricate and demanding rules of kosher slaughter. How do you explain this?

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@@FeastofChamps Everything that the Israelites needed to know and what was required from them was written down by Moses. But they didn't listen and they turned their backs to God. This was what they were appointed for to prove that man cannot live under law but only through faith and the undeserved kindness of God. He sent His son to redeem them but they rejected him also.

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@@G-T You didn't answer my question.