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1. Mishna, Mishnahnoun

   the first part of the Talmud; a collection of early oral interpretations of the scriptures that was compiled about AD 200

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1. Mishnanoun

   The oldest part of the Talmud, rabbinical writings collected by Rabbi Judah the Holy and published in 250 in Javneh (Jamnia, in Israel).

   'The Mishna is believed by Jews to have been handed down orally from the patriarch-prophet Moses, who received it on Mount Sinai with the written Torah.

2. Etymology: From משנה, from שנה

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1. Mishna

   The Mishnah or the Mishna (; Hebrew: מִשְׁנָה, "study by repetition", from the verb shanah שנה‎, or "to study and review", also "secondary") is the first major written collection of the Jewish oral traditions that are known as the Oral Torah. It is also the first major work of rabbinic literature. The Mishnah was redacted by Judah ha-Nasi probably in Beit Shearim or Sepphoris at the beginning of the 3rd century CE in a time when, according to the Talmud, the persecution of the Jews and the passage of time raised the possibility that the details of the oral traditions of the Pharisees from the Second Temple period (516 BCE – 70 CE) would be forgotten. Most of the Mishnah is written in Mishnaic Hebrew, but some parts are in Aramaic. The Mishnah consists of six orders (sedarim, singular seder סדר), each containing 7–12 tractates (masechtot, singular masechet מסכת; lit. "web"), 63 in total, and further subdivided into chapters and paragraphs. The word Mishnah can also indicate a single paragraph of the work, i.e. the smallest unit of structure in the Mishnah. For this reason the whole work is sometimes referred to in the plural form, Mishnayot.

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1. Mishnanoun

   a collection or digest of Jewish traditions and explanations of Scripture, forming the text of the Talmud

2. Etymology: [NHeb. mishnh, i. e., repetition, doubling, explanation (of the divine law), fr. Heb. shnh to change, to repeat.]

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1. Mishna

   the oral law of the Jews, which is divided into six parts, and constitutes the text of the Talmud, of which the Gemara is the commentary.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=mishna
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Mishna
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mishna
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mishna
5. ^ The Nuttall Encyclopedia
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12342/pg12342-images.html#Mishna