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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ravellion" data-source="post: 571189" data-attributes="member: 538">Wow!Enlightening.I know very little of the Jewish faith. The Netherlands used to have a large population of jews due to more or less being the first country to have some form of religious freedom in western Europe. After the horrors of WW2, a lot of jews emigrated as well. Now very few jews live in the Netherlands. Before I went to Brittain, I had met one jew in my entire life (though it might possibly be more, but the Netherlands has a culture of not discussing or displaying religion). Now I have met several in the last couple of months.Anyway, what I was interested in (sorry for the highjack) is how detailed is the holy text, the Talmud? The previous poster already stated that it is not allowed to throw dice or move miniatures or write (or is it just tracking game related objects?) on Shabbat. I find this amount of detail amazing for such an ancient text (how old is it exactly anyway?)! How does the Talmud read? Is the message interwoven with stories like the bible, or is it more like legislation?Just asking questions, not trying to offend anybody.Ravedit: Spelling</blockquote>