Question: What is the difference between Talmud and Torah?
"Torah", is the collective noun, for the original 5 books of "The Law", given to Moses. The writings after Ezra, called the "Talmud" (the traditions of the Pharisees and their interpretation of the Law), and also the "Mishnah" which is "oral law", was developed by the Pharisees, and are also included in the "Modern Torah". Modern Judaism is based now on the developed Pharisaic Judaism of Jesus' day, and were formalised in AD 200/250 into written form and called the "Mishnah". The Mishnah is the written collective interpretations of the Jewish Old Testament and particularly the original Torah.
See: Jewish Scriptures: (study)
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