The Talmud
The Talmud has much wisdom such as this because its the combined thoughts of many rabbis.
The Talmud (
Hebrew:
תַּלְמוּד talmūd "instruction, learning", from a root
lmd "teach, study") is a central text of mainstream
Judaism, considered second to the
Torah.
It is also traditionally referred to as
Shas (
ש״ס), a
Hebrew abbreviation of
shisha sedarim, the "six orders" of the
Oral Law of Judaism.
The Talmud has two components: the
Mishnah (
Hebrew: משנה, c. 200 CE), the first written compendium of Judaism's Oral Law, and the
Gemara
(c. 500 CE), an elucidation of the Mishnah and related Tannaitic
writings that often ventures onto other subjects and expounds broadly on
the
Hebrew Bible.
The terms
Talmud and
Gemara are often used interchangeably.
The whole Talmud consists of 63 tractates, and in standard print is over 6,200 pages long. It is written in
Tannaitic Hebrew and
Aramaic.
When love is strong, a man and a woman can make their bed on a sword's blade. When love grows weak, a bed of 60 cubits is not large enough.
The Talmud
This is truth / reality. We
all who have been loved ,or who have loved deeply and strongly, know this to be true.
You can live in a tent, as long as love resides there with you. ( m peters)
Love is
all powerful. Love is really the
All. It is the
all we
all look for
all of our lives.
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