Babylonian Talmud

[Autumn]

amica,

1) absolutely not. it's just more *practical* and more detailed. the one doesn't really make sense without the other.
2) you need to be very, very careful where this stuff is from. there are a lot of outright lies online about the talmud, because it is written in aramaic and most people aren't in a position to argue. this site:

The Real Truth About The Talmud

was set up specifically to combat these kinds of lies. please, please, go read the pages on the following:


Talmud and Bible


The Talmud Does Not Permit Sex With A Three Year Old


Gentiles

if you want to come back with questions after reading these, please feel free to do so.

my question to you is, who the hell is telling you these lies? why do you suppose they are doing so?

b'shalom

bananabrain

Absolutely true. You must be very carefully.

 

[talib-al-kalim]

Just to add, the way Jews view Talmud reminds me of how many Muslims view Hadiths. They make the same claims: Talmud/Hadiths are practical and Torah/Qur'an cannot be understood as well without Talmud/Hadiths.

I have also read a lot in the Talmud and it still makes a low percentage of the whole.
There's a lot of wisdom in it, but also deductions that don't seem to be well-founded. I appreciate the variety of opinions in it.
If I compare it to my religion, Islam, it seems to me rather like a scholar's discussion of the subject, resulting in "Idjma" if there's a consensus on the interpretation. In this sense, it's not really similar to the Hadith, which claims to be the oral tradition of the teachings of Muhammad (p.b.u.h), but rather the scholarly consent of the interpretation of the Quran and the Hadith that is estimated to be reliable.
I know that some Jewish directions say that the Mishnah also goes back to Moishe (p.b.u.h) comparable to the Hadith, but that's not the impression I got reading it.