Mishna
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- noun
- /ˈmɪʃnə/
- My books include Yad Moshe, the index to the Igros Moshe of Rav Moshe Feinstein, and Yad Yisroel, the index to the Mishna.
Examples
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It was a classic illustration of the first Mishna in the Gemara Gittin, the opening law of the Talmudic tractate dealing with divorce:
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Between 1663 and 1675, at the urging of Cambridge theologians, he translated the entire Mishna into Latin for the first time.
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He can recite any passage from the Mishna!
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The Mishna famously records that a great teacher asked five top students (Ethics of the Fathers, Ch. 2) what quality a person should most avoid.
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The Mishna says infant boy Midianites were, at the command of God, killed in their cribs, but in a tradition preserved by Philo of Alexandria, who is a little earlier, he says infant boys and young boy children were spared.
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For those not acquainted with talmudic study, it will be helpful to know that it is a long process of cooperative textual reasoning, which begins with the effort to understand the connection between the legal/philosophical code (the Mishna) and the Bible and ends by reaching into every conceivable area of Jewish and human interest.
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The task of the student of Talmud is to tease out the meaning of these extremely compressed and often cryptic texts: the texts of the "Oral Law," a system of biblical interpretation that did in fact take place in discussion form and was never recorded in writing until the compilation of the Mishna in the third century C.E.
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Jewish laws, Jewish worship, and Jewish beliefs come from the Mishna.
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The Mishna is the canonical text; the Gemara is the commentary or complement to the text.
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Following our pious shochet's example, we did not interrupt the service, but chanted the closing prayers in accordance with the Mishna's command.
Synonyms
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A written collection of Jewish laws and teachings from about AD 200 that forms the first part of the Talmud
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word Mishna comes from the Hebrew mishnah, built on the root sh-n-h meaning 'to repeat'. So, the Mishna is a collection of sayings and rules that were repeated and learned by heart, which is why its name connects to 'repeating'.