Daily Jewish Wisdom

Much of the Talmud consists of attempts to work out the rules of day-to-day conduct from the rather bald imperatives of the Torah. Of course, much of it also consists of jokes, anecdotes, natural history, gossip, innuendo, and above all - almost literally endless debate about virtually every topic between its covers. Of the 523 chapters of the Mishna, there is exactly one without an argument about halokhe (Jewish Law) they only disagree 99.8% of the time.

Taken from Born to Kvetch, 2008 Universe publishing, a division of Rizzoli International publishing, inc.