WORLD RELIGIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -Torah can also refer to wider scriptural commentaries (Talmud) and even all Jewish religious knowledge. It is in this sense that Jews will often speak of the importance of living a life guided by Torah.

Detailed explanation-2: -Each day, more than 100, 000 Jews worldwide use their early-morning, lunchtime or evening hours to study the same two sides of a page of Talmud, fulfilling the Jewish belief in study for its own sake, until all 38 books of the Talmud are completed.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Talmud developed in two major centres of Jewish scholarship: Babylonia and Palestine. The Jerusalem or Palestinian Talmud was completed c. 350, and the Babylonian Talmud (the more complete and authoritative) was written down c. 500, but was further edited for another two centuries.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Talmud is a record of the rabbinic debates in the 2nd-5th century on the teachings of the Torah, both trying to understand how they apply and seeking answers for the situations they themselves were encountering.