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    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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    differing versions as Mishnah Rishonah ("First Mishnah") and Mishnah Acharonah ("Last Mishnah"). David Zvi Hoffmann suggests that Mishnah Rishonah actually...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • describe the similarities and differences between the two sects in Mishnah Yadaim. The Mishnah explains that the Sadducees state, "So too, regarding the Holy...
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    (zekenim) to share the burden of leadership with him. According to the Mishnah, these 70 elders plus Moses himself are the source for the 71 judges of...
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    teachings throughout history, including the Oral Torah which comprises the Mishnah, the Talmud, the Midrash and more. The inaccurate rendering of "Torah"...
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    HaKippurim, 'day [of] the atonements'. This name is used in the Bible, Mishnah, and Shulchan Aruch. The word kippurim 'atonement' is one of many Biblical...
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    Red heifer (section Mishnah)
    until the evening of the day he sprinkled the water of lustration. The Mishnah, the central compilation of the Oral Torah in Rabbinic Judaism, the oral...
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    rabbinic glosses on Biblical and Talmudic texts. The Midr'she halakha, Mishnah, and Tosefta (compiled from materials pre-dating the year 200 CE) are the...
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  • on the types of flour which could be used for sacrifices, although the Mishnah argues that it was a reference to the bestial nature of adultery, coarse...
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    invokes God's blessing for rain in its proper time. According to the Mishnah, the water for the libation ceremony was drawn from the Pool of Siloam...
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    (transl. "the language of Canaan"). Mishnah Gittin 9:8 refers to the language as Ivrit, meaning Hebrew; however, Mishnah Megillah refers to the language as...
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  • redacted the Mishnah, an authoritative codification of Pharisaic interpretations, around 200 CE. Most of the authorities quoted in the Mishnah lived after...
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    Judah ha-Nasi (category Mishnah rabbis)
    (a tanna of the fifth generation) and chief redactor and editor of the Mishnah. He lived from approximately 135 to 217 CE. He was a key leader of the...
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    Tosefta (category Mishnah)
    of the Mishnah and the Jewish sages known as the Tannaim. In many ways, the Tosefta acts as a supplement (toseftā) to the Mishnah. The Mishnah (Hebrew:...
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    rabbinic notes on the second-century Jewish oral tradition known as the Mishnah. Naming this version of the Talmud after Palestine or the Land of Israel—rather...
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    that is not incorporated in the Mishnah. Baraita thus refers to teachings "outside" of the six orders of the Mishnah. Originally, "Baraita" probably referred...
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  • 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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    language of most of the Hebrew Bible Mishnaic Hebrew, the language of the Mishnah and Talmud Medieval Hebrew, from about the 6th to the 13th century CE Modern...
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  • Tohorot (redirect from Tohorot (Mishnah))
    (Hebrew: טָהֳרוֹת, lit. 'Purities') is the sixth and last order of the Mishnah (also of the Tosefta and Talmud). This order deals with the clean/unclean...
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    dirham to approximate the quantity of flour for dough-portion, writing in Mishnah Eduyot 1:2: "And I found the rate of the dough-portion in that measurement...
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  • Mishnah Nega'im 6:7 Mishnah Nega'im 2:3 Mishnah Nega'im 2:5 Mishnah Nega'im 3:1 Mishnah Nega'im 2:4 Mishnah Nega'im 3:2 Mishnah Nega'im 2:2 Mishnah Nega'im...
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  • which they take as tithes is". Mishnah Challah 1:3; Talmud Shabbat 68a. Mishnah Terumot 2:4, 6. Mishnah Terumot 2:5. Mishnah Terumot 2:4. Leviticus 22:2–3;...
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    construction of the Tabernacle. They are not explicitly listed in the Torah; the Mishnah observes that "the laws of Shabbat ... are like mountains hanging by a...
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