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Are there other Jewish holy books beside the Torah?

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Depends how you define holy. If you mean written by God himself than no. if you mean a book that Jews pray to than even the Torah itself isn't holy, as praying TO the Torah is against one of the fundamentals of Judaism. read more

There are the 5 books of Moses (Torah), 8 Prophets, 11 Writings, 63 tractates of the Talmud (Oral tradition), then there are the books of Midrash (legends and mythology), Kaballah and Zohar (mysticism), Shulchan Aruch (Jewish Law), mussar (morals and ethics), shut"im (questions and answers), philosophy, commentaries, etc. etc. read more

The Torah refers to the five books of Moses in the Hebrew Bible Old Testament (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy). The Torah was written in approximately 1400 BC. Traditionally, the Torah is handwritten on a scroll by a “sacrosanct” (scribe). read more

The other Holy Book for the Jewish religion is the Talmud which includes the Mishnah, which means "repetition" or "study" and the Gemara, which means "addition" or "completion." As society changed, the Jews found that the Torah needed to be updated from its original agricultural emphasis. read more

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