Editing Mishnah (section)

===Rejection===
Some Jews do not accept the codification of the oral law at all. [[Karaite Judaism]], for example, recognises only the Tanakh as [[religious text|authoritative]] in ''[[Halakha]]'' (Jewish [[religious law]]) and [[theology]]. It rejects the codification of the [[Oral Torah]] in the Mishnah and [[Talmud]] and subsequent works of mainstream [[Rabbinic Judaism]] which maintain that the Talmud is an authoritative interpretation of the [[Torah]]. Karaites maintain that all of the [[Mitzvah|divine commandments]] handed down to [[Moses]] by God were recorded in the written Torah without additional Oral Law or explanation. As a result, Karaite Jews do not accept as binding the written collections of the oral tradition in the Midrash or Talmud. The Karaites comprised a significant portion of the world Jewish population in the 10th and 11th centuries CE, and remain extant, although today their numbers have been reduced to around a mere 50,000.