The Mishnah or the Mishna (/ˈmɪʃnə/; Hebrew: מִשְׁנָה, "study by repetition", from the verb shanah שנה, or "to study and review", also "secondary") is...
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The Mishnah Berurah (Hebrew: משנה ברורה "Clear Teaching") is a work of halakha (Jewish law) by Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan (Poland, 1838–1933, also known...
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Rabbinic Judaism (section Mishnah)
differing versions as Mishnah Rishonah ("First Mishnah") and Mishnah Acharonah ("Last Mishnah"). David Zvi Hoffmann suggests that Mishnah Rishonah actually...
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Judaism, Mishnah Yomis or Mishnah Yomit (Hebrew: משנה יומית "The Daily Study of the Mishnah") refers to the Torah study cycle in which two Mishnahs (brief...
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Talmud (category Mishnah)
abbreviation of shisha sedarim, or the "six orders" of the Mishnah. The Talmud has two components: the Mishnah (משנה, c. 200 CE), a written compendium of the Oral...
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Gemara (section Gemara and Mishnah)
comprising a collection of rabbinical analyses and commentaries on the Mishnah and presented in 63 books. The term is derived from the Aramaic word גמרא...
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Tannaim (redirect from Mishnah rabbis)
from Aramaic) were the rabbinic sages whose views are recorded in the Mishnah, from approximately 10–220 CE. The period of the Tannaim, also referred...
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List of Talmudic tractates (redirect from List of masechtot, chapters, mishnahs and pages in the Talmud)
Mishnah consists of six divisions known as Sedarim or Orders. The Babylonian Talmud has Gemara—rabbinical analysis of and commentary on the Mishnah—on...
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Oral Torah (section The Mishnah)
are the Mishnah, compiled between 200–220 CE by Judah ha-Nasi, and the Gemara, a series of running commentaries and debates concerning the Mishnah, which...
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Shmaya (tanna) (redirect from Shemaya (Mishnah))
of Gentile descent, although both were Alexandrians. According to the Mishnah, both Shemaiah and Abtalion studied Torah under Simeon ben Shetach. He...
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