The Talmud

The Talmud (4th and 5th Century) is the authoritative source of rabbinic discussions on Jewish laws, ethics, customs, stories, legends etc. It is a huge limbo, in chaotic arrangement, consisting of the Mishna, or text, and Gemara, or commentary, of Rabbinical speculations, subtleties, fancies, and traditions connected with the Hebrew Bible, and claiming to possess co-ordinate rank with it as expository of its meaning and application, the whole collection dating from a period subsequent to the Captivity and the close of the canon of Scripture. There are two Talmuds, one named the Talmud of Jerusalem, and the other the Talmud of Babylon, the former, the earlier of the two, belonging in its present form to the close of the 4th century, and the latter to at least a century later.

Wisdom & Quotes

• In eating, a third of the stomach should be filled with food, a third with drink, and the rest left empty.
• Three things are weakening : fear, sin and travel.
• Never greet a stranger in the night, for he may be a demon.

Buddhaghosh