Mishnah Definition

noun
The first section of the Talmud, being a collection of early oral interpretations of the scriptures as compiled about ad 200.
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A paragraph from this section of the Talmud.
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The teaching of a rabbi or other noted authority on Jewish laws.
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Origin of Mishnah

  • Mishnaic Hebrew mišnâ repetition, instruction from šānâ to repeat ṯn in Semitic roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Mishnah Sentence Examples

  • Babylonia had risen into supreme importance for Jewish life at about the time when the Mishnah was completed.

  • This was the Mishnah.

  • Me`ir, but rejected much which was afterwards collected under the title of Tosefta (addition) and Baraita (outside the Mishnah).

  • All of these were drawn up in the period of the Amoraim, the order of teachers who succeeded the Tannaim, from the close of the Mishnah to about A.D.

  • As the existing halakhoth were collected and edited in the Mishnah, so the much larger agadic material was gathered together and arranged in the Midrashim.

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