The 'Tanakh Quintessential Sacred Text Haggadah'

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• Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) - The Tanakh quintessential sacred text. It is the first of the five books that makes up the Torah.
• Talmud and Mishan - The Jewish compendium of law and tradition
• Haggadah - a text that is recited on the first two nights of Passover
• Midrash - the body of exegesis of Torah texts along with the homiletic stories taught by Chazal
• Responsa - A further set of Jewish thousands of volumes of answer to specific questions on Jewish law
• The Septuagint - Ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible
• Zohar - The central text of the Kabbalah
• Siddu - Daily prayer book

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