The book of Exodus lists four components of the incense while the Talmud lists seven additional components from the oral Torah.

Sadducees rejected the Pharisaic tenet of an oral Torah, and created new interpretations based on a literal understanding of verses.

Jewish law is widely understood to be grounded in the written Torah and oral Torah.

In early rabbinic Judaism, the oral Torah both interprets the Hebrew Bible and delves afresh into many other ethical topics.

Sefer Hasidim is replete with edicts that illuminate this theme of searching beyond the revealed instructions of the written and oral Torah and searching for the Ratzon Haborei.

Therefore, as above, it accepts philosophic speculation and statements of dogma only to the extent that they exist within, and are compatible with, the system of written and oral Torah.

Mecklenburg's intent was "to demonstrate the indivisibility of the written Torah and its counterpart, the oral Torah".

Many halakhic principles are derived from lifnei iver, the oral Torah expanding its ramifications beyond a purely literal interpretation.

According to many, the "oral Torah" was ultimately recorded in the Mishnah, the Talmud and Midrash.

It has a strictly unitary view of God, and the central holy book for almost all branches is the Masoretic Text as elucidated in the oral Torah.