Thursday, May 8, 2014

Talmud Bavli Berachot on All Torah Literature Given to Moses at Sinai

"And Rabbi Levi bar Chama said in the name of Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish: What is the meaning of that which is written: 'I shall give you the Tablets of stone, and the Torah, and the commandments which I have written, to teach them' (Exodus 24:12)? 'Tablets' - these refer to the Ten Commandments; 'Torah' - this refers to the Pentateuch; 'and the commandment' - this refers to the Mishnah; 'which I have written' - these refer to the Prophets and the Writings; 'to teach them' - this refers to the Gemara. The verse thus teaches that all of them were given to Moses at Sinai."

 -- Talmud Bavli, Berachot 5a

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