. . . "According to Rabbinic Judaism, the Oral Torah or Oral Law (Hebrew: \u05EA\u05D5\u05E8\u05D4 \u05E9\u05D1\u05E2\u05DC \u05E4\u05D4, Torah she-be-`al peh, lit \"Torah that is spoken\") represents those laws, statutes, and legal interpretations that were not recorded in the Five Books of Moses, the \"Written Torah\" (Hebrew: \u05EA\u05D5\u05E8\u05D4 \u05E9\u05D1\u05DB\u05EA\u05D1, Torah she-bi-khtav, lit. \"Torah that is written\"), but nonetheless are regarded by Orthodox Jews as prescriptive and co-given."@en .