Why do some Jews use the Talmud and others Jews dont?

Question

Ive read the past question on this and it says it is the oral law that the orthadox Jews use along with the torah. That is was given by Moses.......so why do only some Jews use it and some dont?

Answer 1

All Jews use the Talmud, but not all Jews believe it was given at Mt. Sinai with the Torah. Many Jews believe that both the Torah and the Oral Law (Talmud) were given at Sinai.

I think the difference you're thinking about is "practice." Orthodox Jews keep all of the more than 200 commandments. Many Conservative Jews keep kosher, don't work on the sabbath, etc. Reform Jews may not keep any of the laws regarding food, sabbath, etc., but many of them are starting to keep more of the laws.

You cannot generalize about Jewish beliefs because there is no creed that one must "believe," and as you know "two Jews will have three or more opinions."

The Talmud is to Jews what the NT is to Christians, but *much* more extensive. It could be compared to a law library. Roman Catholics banned the Talmud when they were slaughtering hertics and burned every copy they could find. It remained a banned book until something like the 1960s.

You can find the teachings of Hillel and Shammai in it (Jesus' teachers).

Shalom

Answer 2

all Jews up to 200 years ago used the Talmud as the backbone to Jewish law.

Then a group of German Jews that called themselves Reform wanted to blend in with German society. In order to do that they needed to drop things like keeping the sabbath and kosher. Naturally they could not do that if they believed that these things were divine instructions by G-d. So naturally they shifted to the believe that G-d never gave the Torah to Moses and that the Bible as well as the Talmud were works of man with no divine instruction.

So naturally if Jewish society created the Torah then Jewish society can also change it as well.

the rest is history.

Answer 3

First, not everybody is at the same level of commitment
Second, not everybody is at the same level of faith
Third, not everybody accepts the traditions as law
Fourth, there was once a great teacher who displayed the faulty practice of many of these traditions.
I am not criticizing, in my own religion many don't apply the same simple scripture the same way and many more don't accept some scriptures at all. These are not add-ons but actual New Testament Scriptures.

Answer 4

Judaism is founded on the talmud as much as the written law (as a matter of fact, they're seen as being complementary). What some people do or don't do is their own folly.

Answer 5

Honestly, no idea. I was raised in the synagogue, but I don't know.

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