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22 July 2022 - 11 September 2022
The Talmud, completed around 500 CE, is an enormous compendium of Jewish traditions, especially about the halakha, but also containing a dizzying array of other things. It is composed of the Mishnah, compiled about 200 CE in Mishnaic Hebrew, and the Gemara, composed in Aramaic and which reached its final form somewhere around 500 CE.
When I speak of "the Talmud" without qualification, I am speaking of the Bavli, not the Talmud Yerushalmi.
It was formative in the history of Judaism, and is the basis upon which all later halakha rests, with the exception of Karaite Judaism and various groups not accepted by mainstream Judaism such as Messianic Judaism or the Black Hebrew Israelite movement.
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