Quotes:Talmud

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H. P. Blavatsky

Talmud. 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.

Source: H. P. Blavatsky, The Theosophical Glossary, art. Talmud

Zirkoff, Boris

*Talmud. Tide Vol. VIII, p. 416, for comprehensive data. Also art. by I. O. M. Deutsch in the Quarterly Review for October. 1867.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 1, p. 528