What else is there besides the Tanakh?

Question

I am aware of the Talmud but theres 2 versions? Palestine(or Jerusalem) and Babylon Talmud? Also Oral law which is the Mishna? Then Kabbalah? Am I missing anything?

Answer 1

one big one,

the Shulhan Aruch it means "set table"

its basically a set compilation of Halacha (Jewish law) that was written by Rabbi Yosef Karo in the fiftieth century

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shulkhan_Arukh

but this is not the end of the list their are thousands of books and commentary written on all ranges of Jewish subjects for the last 1,500 years and more are being written every day.

On that note a classmate of mine sent me a list of several internet websites with many Jewish works, including the big ones mostly in Hebrew but alot in English as well.

if you want I can forward it to you.

Answer 2

There were two Jewish Religous guardians. The Pharisees and the Sadducees. The latted beleived that only the written texts should comprise the Talmud or Tanakh, while the former felt the verbal stories passed from generation to generation should also be included.

Pharisees believed that there was another Torah. They referred to the five books of Moses as the “Written Torah,” and the corpus of oral laws and traditions as the “Oral Torah,” because it was not written down but was rather transmittted by God to Moses orally, and was then memorized and then passed down orally by Moses and his successors over the generations.

Answer 3

Also various explanations of the Tamlud, and responsa throughout the ages.

Answer 4

YEAH...BUKABBANAH