Oral Law

noun

1. Judaism the traditional body of religious law believed to have been revealed to Moses as an interpretation of the Torah and passed on orally until it was codified and recorded, principally in the Mishna and Gemara

Example Sentences

Their chief energies were devoted to the study of the oral law in its definite form, the Mishna.

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Clearly he is arguing here for the observance of the oral law, which later was standardized in the Halakah.

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But the passage quoted in an earlier chapter, about adding to the law, proves his reverence for the oral law.

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In his later years, he rejected many traditional observances of the Oral Law that completed his estrangement from the Pharisees.

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What is Revelation, and how did the sages apply it to the Oral Law?

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