Talmud - the religious and legal code of the Jewish religion. Ideologists of Judaism are strenuously spreading the legend of its revelation of God. The real book tells about what this religious and literary monument is, each page of which is full of the most contradictory and unscientific interpretations, what are the social reasons for its occurrence and what is the essence of the reactionary role of the Talmud. The author pays great attention to the analysis of various critical movements directed against this religious and legal code, as well as the connection of the Talmud with modern Judaism.