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

Introduction to This Blog

As I have been studying Torah literature over the past few years, I have been sharing my studies with friends on Facebook.  I have posted hundreds of quotes from the Torah, Zohar, Talmud, and the writings of the Kabbalists.  Unfortunately, they get lost on Facebook and there is no easy way to archive these posts for long-term storage.  I would really like to be able to review my studies later on down the road, as well as have a nice archive where I can find interesting passages later on in case I need them for citations.

This blog will probably not have any articles, but only quotations of passages from sundry Torah literature primary sources.  This will include the Torah (Chumash, i.e. Pentateuch), TaNaK, Mishnah, Gemara, Talmud, Midrash, Zohar, and the words of the sages and the Kabbalists.  I do also study the New Testament and the Qur'an, as well as Intertestamental literature.  Perhaps I will create a separate blog for these areas, but for now, since I focus mostly on Torah literature, I will use this blog as a repository and notebook for my study of Torah literature.