When Moses received all of the laws that would define the Jewish tradition, he also received the explanation of these laws. The laws were contained in the Pentateuch, or Torah. These were written down on scrolls. The explanation however, was not allowed to be written down. Jews were obligated to speak the explanation and pass it on orally to students, children, and fellow adults. When Israel was eventually destroyed by Rome in 70, Jews who memorized the explanation were being killed. In order that the explanation would not die as well, a Chief Rabbi, 200 years later had it written down. The Oral Law became the Talmud. Moses or Móshe (מֹשֶׁה, Standard Hebrew Móše, Tiberian Hebrew Mōšeh, Arabic موسى), son of Amram and his wife, Jochebed, a Levite. ... Halakha (הלכה in Hebrew or Halakhah, Halacha, Halachah) is the collective corpus of Jewish law, custom and tradition regulating all aspects of behavior. ... For a discussion of Jews as an ethnicity or ethnic group see the article on Jew. ... Torah, (תורה) is a Hebrew word meaning teaching, instruction, or especially Law. ... Torah, (תורה) is a Hebrew word meaning teaching, instruction, or especially law. It primarily refers to the first section of the Tanakh–the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, or the Five Books of Moses, but can also be used in the general sense to also include both the... The Roman Empire is the term conventionally used to describe the Roman polity in the centuries following its reorganization under the leadership of Caesar Augustus. ... Rabbi (Classical Hebrew רִבִּי ribbī; modern Ashkenazi and Israeli רַבִּי rabbī) in Judaism, means teacher, or more literally great one. The word Rabbi is derived from the Hebrew root-word RaV, which in biblical Hebrew means great or distinguished,. In the ancient Judean schools the sages were addressed as רִבִּי... The first page of the Talmud, in the standard Vilna edition. ...