 Rabbinic Judaism maintains that the books of the Tanakh were transmitted in parallel with an oral tradition, as relayed by God to Moses and from him handed on to the scholarly and other religious leaders of each generation.Thus, in Judaism, the "Written Instruction" ("Torah she-bi-khtav" תורה שבכתב) comprises the Torah and the rest of the Tanakh; the "Oral Instruction" ("Torah she-be'al peh" תורה שבעל פה) was ultimately recorded in the Talmud (lit.