The Myth of Talmudic Jews

The distinction between Talmudic and Torah Jews is complete and utter horseshit. The Talmud (basically "teachings") is an umbrella term for the vast library of religious law, based ultimately on the Bible, that has been under active development for about 2,500 years. The Talmud is recorded in long, rambling, legalistic debates in Medieval Hebrew between men who spent their entire lives on interpreting interpretations to impossible degrees. Imagine trying to make sense of debates between modern-day English Literature professors. All religious Jews follow the Talmud: 1. No-one follows the Torah and nothing but the Torah: that's the Pentateuch, i.e. the first five books of the Old Testament. 2. For such a thing to be remotely possible, one would have to live literally in Bronze Age technological and social conditions, because the Talmud developed to account for the changes not specifically covered. Even applying the Ten Commandments requires the Talmud, because the Torah doesn't even define them. Low-grade anti-Semites who talk about "Talmudic" Jews pretend the Talmud contains religious justification for rape, slavery, theft, etc -- i.e. what the Koran actually does support. The leap eagerly to this conclusion because a few, out-of-context passages describe outlandish things like a dowery for a child or something -- most probably a rhetorical exaggeration, and having zero bearing on how Jews actually live their lives.