• Tannaim (Amoraic Hebrew: Hebrew: תנאים [tannɔʔim] "repeaters", "teachers", singular tanna תנא [tanˈnɔː], borrowed from Aramaic) were the rabbinic sages...
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  • the early 2nd century (third generation of tannaim). Johanan HaSandlar (c. 200–c. 300), one of the tannaim, whose teachings are quoted in the core text...
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  • years towards the end of the Second Temple era. (142 BCE – c. 40 BCE) Tannaim ("teachers"): The sages of the Mishnah, who lived in the Land of Israel...
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    Mishnah) can be derived using them.... The rabbis of the Mishnah are known as Tannaim (sing. Tanna תנא‎). The rabbis of the Gemara are referred to as Amoraim...
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    was based on religious adherence rather than ancestry (Galatians 3:28). Tannaim were the rabbinic sages whose views are recorded in the Mishnah, from approximately...
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  • codified in the Gemara. The Amoraim followed the Tannaim in the sequence of ancient Jewish scholars. The Tannaim were direct transmitters of uncodified oral...
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  • great early religious scholar. He was one of the second generation of Tannaim, who served under the patriarch Gamliel II of Yavneh, during the last two...
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    Exegesis (section Tannaim)
    and the Midrash, that did not follow the words, was recognized by the Tannaim and the Amoraim, although their idea of the literal meaning of a passage...
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    rabbis recorded in the Mishnah are known as the Tannaim (literally, "repeaters", or "teachers"). These tannaim—rabbis of the second century CE--"who produced...
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    expounds broadly on the Tanakh. The rabbis of the Mishnah are known as Tannaim (sing. Tanna תנא). The rabbis of the Gemara are referred to as Amoraim...
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    of the Soferim and the Tannaim of the first two generations; The midrash of the younger halakha, or the midrash of the Tannaim of the three following...
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    Moses Aaron David Solomon Sarah Rebecca Rachel Leah Rabbinic sages Chazal Tannaim Amoraim Savoraim Geonim Rishonim Acharonim Religious roles Rabbi Rebbe...
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    collections, individual barayata are often authored by sages of the Mishna (Tannaim). According to Maimonides' Introduction to Mishneh Torah, the barayata...
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  • "pairs" of religious teachers, and to each of these pairs themselves. The Tannaim ("repeaters") were rabbis living primarily in Eretz Yisrael who codified...
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  • Look up Eliezer in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Eliezer (Hebrew: אליעזר, "God is my help") was the name of at least three biblical personalities. Eliezer...
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  • in the Tosefta in Shabbat 11:15 and Sanhedrin 10:11 respectively. The Tannaim and Amoraim who recorded the accounts in the Talmud and Tosefta use the...
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    Law could be preserved. After many years of effort by a great number of tannaim, the oral tradition was written down around 200 CE by Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi...
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    against Roman rule. Rabbi Meir was considered one of the greatest of the Tannaim of the third generation (139–163). According to the Talmud, he was a descendant...
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    Moses Aaron David Solomon Sarah Rebecca Rachel Leah Rabbinic sages Chazal Tannaim Amoraim Savoraim Geonim Rishonim Acharonim Religious roles Rabbi Rebbe...
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    Moses Aaron David Solomon Sarah Rebecca Rachel Leah Rabbinic sages Chazal Tannaim Amoraim Savoraim Geonim Rishonim Acharonim Religious roles Rabbi Rebbe...
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  • to the prophets, to the men of the Great Assembly, to the Zugot, to the Tannaim. The chain of semikhah was probably lost in the 4th or 5th century, though...
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    Moses Aaron David Solomon Sarah Rebecca Rachel Leah Rabbinic sages Chazal Tannaim Amoraim Savoraim Geonim Rishonim Acharonim Religious roles Rabbi Rebbe...
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  • Dosetai is a Hebraized form of the Greek given name Dositheus meaning "gift of God". It was extremely popular in late classical Judea and among Jewish...
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  • Moses Aaron David Solomon Sarah Rebecca Rachel Leah Rabbinic sages Chazal Tannaim Amoraim Savoraim Geonim Rishonim Acharonim Religious roles Rabbi Rebbe...
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    Moses Aaron David Solomon Sarah Rebecca Rachel Leah Rabbinic sages Chazal Tannaim Amoraim Savoraim Geonim Rishonim Acharonim Religious roles Rabbi Rebbe...
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    and in both unions the offspring are judged matrilineally. Second, the Tannaim may have been influenced by Roman law, which dictated that when a parent...
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    Rabbinical eras Chazal Zugot Tannaim Amoraim Savoraim Geonim Rishonim Acharonim v t e...
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    Moses Aaron David Solomon Sarah Rebecca Rachel Leah Rabbinic sages Chazal Tannaim Amoraim Savoraim Geonim Rishonim Acharonim Religious roles Rabbi Rebbe...
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  • reason they are able to get away with disagreeing is because they are Tannaim. There are “only a handful of possible exceptions [to the rule] that the...
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  • Moses Aaron David Solomon Sarah Rebecca Rachel Leah Rabbinic sages Chazal Tannaim Amoraim Savoraim Geonim Rishonim Acharonim Religious roles Rabbi Rebbe...
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