What is the purpose of the Talmud? ?

What is the per pose of the Jewish Talmud?

This might help!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talmud

It's rather like the Catholic Catechism!

The Talmud is a combination of the oral law- Mishnah, and its commentaries, the Gemorrah. It gives the law and case law and discussion of all the possibilities of applying the law, and thus serves the same as law books and case studies in secular law.

In other words- the purpose of the Talmud is to teach us the law, discuss the law and give guidelines for the application of the laws.

social commentary and history of the interpretation of the Jewish scriptures as it applies to daily life and such like

Simply put: it advises us how to actually apply Judaism to 'real' life

One Jewish author that I like wrote: 'The Torah is G-d speaking to us - and the Talmud is us answering!'

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