Morals are based on empathy not religion

[MannyGoldstein]

124. What is there to interpret?

Everything!

The Talmud is probably the second most important book in Judaism, after the Torah. It's basically a giant discussion/argument among important rabbis over how the law should be interpreted. Everything is up for grabs. From Wikipedia:

The whole Talmud consists of 63 tractates, and in standard print is over 6,200 pages long. It is written in Tannaitic Hebrew and Aramaic. The Talmud contains the teachings and opinions of thousands of rabbis on a variety of subjects, including Halakha (law), Jewish ethics, philosophy, customs, history, lore and many other topics. The Talmud is the basis for all codes of Jewish law and is much quoted in rabbinic literature.

These are not subtle differences of opinion - they are often huge differences. While I'm not personally religious, I think it's really cool that Judaism has a giant book of arguments as a key tract: it sends the message that nobody has a monopoly on truth and interpretation, and even as a tyke in Hebrew school I was encouraged to push back at our teachers and rabbis if we didn't buy what they were saying.