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|description=Rabbinic Commentaries on the Jewish faith. It is composed of two parts, the older ''Mishnah'', and the more modern ''Gemara''. Hebrews, who call the ''Pentateuch'' the written law, call the ''Talmud'' the unwritten or oral law. [w.w.w.] The ''Talmud ''contains the civil and canonical laws of the Jews, who claim a great sanctity for it. For, save the above‐stated difference between the ''Pentateuch'' and the ''Talmud'', the former, they say, can claim no priority over the latter, as both were received simultaneously by Moses on Mount Sinai from Jehovah, ''who wrote the one and '' ''delivered the other orally.'' {{ctd-source|TG}}.
|description=Rabbinic Commentaries on the Jewish faith. It is composed of two parts, the older ''Mishnah'', and the more modern ''Gemara''. Hebrews, who call the ''Pentateuch'' the written law, call the ''Talmud'' the unwritten or oral law. [w.w.w.] The ''Talmud ''contains the civil and canonical laws of the Jews, who claim a great sanctity for it. For, save the above‐stated difference between the ''Pentateuch'' and the ''Talmud'', the former, they say, can claim no priority over the latter, as both were received simultaneously by Moses on Mount Sinai from Jehovah, ''who wrote the one and '' ''delivered the other orally.'' {{ctd-source|TG}}.
|quotes=H. P. Blavatsky
 
Zirkoff's appendix points readers to BCW Vol. VIII, p. 416, for a fuller discussion, and to I. O. M. Deutsch's article in the ''Quarterly Review'' for October 1867. {{ctd-source|BCW|1|528}}.
|quotes=H. P. Blavatsky; Boris de Zirkoff
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