Oral Law

British  

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

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The oldest part is the Mish nah, or Teaching, a selection of the Oral Law as taught by synagogue sages and compiled by Rabbi Judah Hanasi at the end of the 2nd century.

From Time Magazine Archive

What but the tremendous complexities of the Mosaic and the Oral Law.

From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Elizabeth Miller

“The Fathers” contains a history of those who handed down the Oral Law, also many maxims and proverbs.

From Hebrew Literature by Epiphanius Wilson

Moses' title is Kalímu'llah on account of the Oral Law and certain conversations at Mount Sinai.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 15 by Sir Richard Francis Burton