Mark 7:13

through your tradition The Jews distinguished between the "Written Law" and the traditional or "Unwritten Law." The Unwritten Law was said to have been orally delivered by God to Moses, and by him orally transmitted to the Elders. On it was founded the Talmud or "doctrine," which consists of (1) the Mishnaor "repetition" of the Law, (2) the Gemaraor "supplement" to it. So extravagant did the veneration for the Traditional Law become, that there was amongst many other sayings this assertion, "The Law is like salt, the Mishna like pepper, the Gemara like balmy spice." Buxtorf, Synag. Jud. ch. 3.