Some things were written and make up the Torah and Tanach. Others were passed down orally. Quite a simple premise. Without the oral instructions what exactly would be circumcised? Perhaps your nose. Then there how to slaughter and this statement "As I commanded you:" This teaches us that there is a (detailed) command concerning slaughter – how to slaughter – and these are the laws of slaughter that were taught to Moshe from Sinai (i.e., from G-d).” - Rashi
Then of course there's the no working on Shabbat. What does that mean? What is work? God didn't leave much up to the imagination as He was pretty specific. Throughout the Tanach we could probably guess what constitutes work, yet the Talmud discusses the topic at length.
The complexity of understanding the Talmud is a life-long journey. It's not for everyone and shouldn't be. Leave it to the dedicated few that hold the mission of being the light unto the Nations. A little story that I revere greatly:
THE CHIMNEY SWEEP CONVERSATION – LEARNING GEMARA
A young man asks to study with a Talmudic scholar. The scholar gives him a taste of
Talmudic reasoning.
“But I already know logic, what do I need Talmudic reasoning?” protests the student,
“Aristotelian syllogisms, truth-functional logic, predicate logic, set theory everything.”
“That’s not Jewish logic,” replies the scholar, but the student persists, and so the scholar
offers to show him the difference between “logic” and what we find in the Talmud.
“Here is the question,” says the scholar. “Two men go down a chimney. One has a dirty face,
one has a clean face. Which one washes?”
“That’s easy,” says the student, “the one with the dirty face.”
“Wrong,” says the scholar. “The one with the clean face looks at the other one, sees a dirty
face, and thinks his must also be dirty, and so the one with the clean face washes.”
“I see,” says the student. “It is a little more complicated than I thought, but I can do this.
Please test me again.”
“All right,” sighs the scholar. “Here is the question. Two men go down a chimney. One has a
dirty face, one has a clean face. Which one washes?”
In surprise the student answers, “Just as you said, the one with the clean face washes.”
“Wrong,” says the scholar. “The one with the dirty face observes his companion looking at
him and making ready to wash his face. ‘Ah ha,’ he thinks. ‘He must see a dirty face, and it’s
mine.’ And so the one with the dirty face washes.”
“It is even more complicated than I yet realized,” says the student, “but now I do
understand. Please test me once more.”
“Just once more,” says the scholar. “Here is the question. Two men go down a chimney. One
has a dirty face, one has a clean face. Which one washes?”
“Now I know the answer,” says the student. “The one with the dirty face washes, just as I
thought in the beginning, but for a different reason.”
“Wrong,” says the scholar. “If two men go down a chimney, how can only one have a dirty
face? Go and study. When you know Jewish logic, come back.”
https://staff-assets.ncsy.org/THE-CHIMNEY-SWEEP-QUESTION-%E2%80%93-LEARNING-TALMUD.pdf
There's a war taking place, and the aim is to destroy Judaism. It's nothing new, just re-packaged old propaganda.
https://www.thejc.com/news/features/meet-the-three-jews-behind-the-four-opinions-onlyconnect-team-cghd8o7f
Online antisemites’ new frontier? The Talmud https://www.thejc.com/news/features/online-antisemites-new-frontier-the-talmud-jlqnzyo4?utm_source=sharebutton&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=top via @JewishChron
Ted Pike’s Confused Understanding:
https://youtu.be/bmRFU0GMDOo?feature=shared
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/burning-of-the-talmud
https://aish.com/when-king-louis-ix-burned-the-talmud/
https://outreachjudaism.org/lets-get-biblical-audio-series/
https://pathwaysradio.org/
