Question: what is the difference between the talmud and tanakh?
Answer: Torah = First five books of the Hebrew Bible (“Old Testament”), altough written in the original Hebrew. ... Tanakh = From the Hebrew acroymn for “the Law, Prophets, and Writings”… essentially, the Hebrew Bible. The “Law” is the Torah (see above). Talmud = Contains centuries of Rabbis commenting on the Hebrew Bible.