Two points to clarify.
First:
you are saying the torah IS the OT?
No, the Torah is
not the Old Testament. Rather, the Torah is
part of the Old Testament. The Torah (AKA "the Pentatuch", AKA "The Five Books of Moses", AKA "The Law") consists of the first five books of the Bible, which we know in English as Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy (in Hebrew, the names derive from how each starts; eg, Genesis would be "In the beginning").
Second point:
Peg, Message 74 writes:
Week of years is mentioned in the Jewish Mishnah in Baba Metzia 9, and in Sanhedrin 5
Peg was not even referring to the Torah. This is for two reasons:
1) Daniel, the prophecy under discussion, is
not in the Torah, but rather is in Former Prophets, the second of the three sections of the Tanakh (AKA "The Hebrew Bible"), those sections being Torah, Former Prophets, and Writings.
"Old Testament" is a Christian invention, which the Church had largely derived from the Tanakh, though with some changes, mainly in choice of which books to include and to not include. As you start to study the Bible, you should take a look at the question of the various
canons and how the Catholic, Protestant, and Hebrew bibles differ from each other; the Wikipedia article,
Old Testament - Wikipedia would be a good place to start.
2) And most particularly, Peg was referring to the
Talmud, which is the quite literally encyclopedic body of rabbinic literature which represents a few centuries of rabbinic study and commentary on The Law and on other aspects of Judaism in the first centuries CE. And commentaries on those commentaries, and commentaries on those commentaries, etc -- kind of like some threads in this forum. If you want to know how the rabbis approached Scripture (ie, the Tanakh) and attempted to interpret it, go to the Talmud. For more introductory information in this subject, go to the Wikipedia article on it at
Talmud - Wikipedia
BTW, you are going to attempt to discuss what the Bible says, you should study it as you say you intend to. It really is beneficial, as is evidenced by the fact that that is what turned me into an atheist over 45 years ago.
Edited by dwise1, : minor clean-up in aisle 3