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Roman",Gisha,Arial,FreeSerif,FreeSans}</style>שנה‎, or "to study and review", also "secondary") is the first written collection of the Jewish <a href="/wiki/Oral_tradition" title="Oral tradition">oral traditions</a> that are known as the <a href="/wiki/Oral_Torah" title="Oral Torah">Oral Torah</a>. It is also the first work of <a href="/wiki/Rabbinic_literature" title="Rabbinic literature">rabbinic literature</a>, with the oldest surviving material dating to the 6th to 7th centuries BCE.<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a><a href="#cite_note-FineS_(2014a)-2">[2]</a><a href="#cite_note-WDL_(2018a)-3">[3]</a> The Mishnah was <a href="/wiki/Literary_redaction" title="Literary redaction">redacted</a> by <a href="/wiki/Judah_ha-Nasi" title="Judah ha-Nasi">Judah ha-Nasi</a> probably in <a href="/wiki/Beit_She%27arim_(Roman-era_Jewish_village)" title="Beit She'arim (Roman-era Jewish village)">Beit Shearim</a> or <a href="/wiki/Sepphoris" title="Sepphoris">Sepphoris</a><a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a> between the ending of the second century CE and the beginning of the third century<a href="#cite_note-EJ_(2007a)-5">[5]</a><a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a> in a time when the <a href="/wiki/Persecution_of_Jews" title="Persecution of Jews">persecution of Jews</a> and the passage of time raised the possibility that the details of the oral traditions of the <a href="/wiki/Pharisees" title="Pharisees">Pharisees</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Second_Temple_period" title="Second Temple period">Second Temple period</a> (516 BCE – 70 CE) would be forgotten. Most of the Mishnah is written in <a href="/wiki/Mishnaic_Hebrew" title="Mishnaic Hebrew">Mishnaic Hebrew</a>, but some parts are in <a href="/wiki/Jewish_Palestinian_Aramaic" title="Jewish Palestinian Aramaic">Jewish Western Aramaic</a>. <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none"><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Six_orders">1 Six orders</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2"><a href="#Omissions">1.1 Omissions</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="#Mishnah,_Gemara,_and_Talmud">1.2 Mishnah, Gemara, and Talmud</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#Content_and_purpose">2 Content and purpose</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="#Oral_law">2.1 Oral law</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6"><a href="#The_Mishnah_and_the_Hebrew_Bible">2.2 The Mishnah and the Hebrew Bible</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7"><a href="#Rejection">2.3 Rejection</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a href="#Authorship">3 Authorship</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9"><a href="#Mishnah_studies">4 Mishnah studies</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10"><a href="#Textual_variants">4.1 Textual variants</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11"><a href="#Manuscripts">4.2 Manuscripts</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12"><a href="#Printed_editions">4.3 Printed editions</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13"><a href="#Oral_traditions_and_pronunciation">4.4 Oral traditions and pronunciation</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14"><a href="#As_a_historical_source">4.5 As a historical source</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-15"><a href="#Commentaries">5 Commentaries</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-16"><a href="#List_of_commentaries">5.1 List of commentaries</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-17"><a href="#Cultural_references">6 Cultural references</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-18"><a href="#See_also">7 See also</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-19"><a href="#Notes">8 Notes</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-20"><a href="#References">9 References</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-21"><a href="#English_translations">9.1 English translations</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-22"><a href="#Historical_study">9.2 Historical study</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-23"><a href="#Recitation">9.3 Recitation</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-24"><a href="#External_links">10 External links</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-25"><a href="#Wikimedia_projects">10.1 Wikimedia projects</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-26"><a href="#Digitised_manuscripts">10.2 Digitised manuscripts</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-27"><a href="#Other_electronic_texts">10.3 Other electronic texts</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-28"><a href="#Mishnah_study_and_the_daily_Mishnah">10.4 Mishnah study and the daily Mishnah</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-29"><a href="#Audio_lectures">10.5 Audio lectures</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-30"><a href="#Oral_traditions_and_pronunciation_2">10.6 Oral traditions and pronunciation</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(1)"><h2 id="Six_orders">Six orders</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Mishnah&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Six orders" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-1 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-1"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_Talmudic_tractates" title="List of Talmudic tractates">List of Talmudic tractates</a></div> The term "Mishnah" originally referred to a method of teaching by presenting topics in a systematic order, as contrasted with <a href="/wiki/Midrash" title="Midrash">Midrash</a>, which followed the order of the Bible. As a written compilation, the order of the Mishnah is by subject matter and includes a much broader selection of <a href="/wiki/Halakha" title="Halakha">halakhic</a> subjects and discusses individual subjects more thoroughly than the Midrash. The Mishnah consists of six orders (sedarim, singular seder סדר), each containing 7–12 tractates (masechtot, singular masechet מסכת; lit. "web"), 63 in total. Each masechet is divided into chapters (peraqim, singular pereq) and then paragraphs (mishnayot, singular mishnah). In this last context, the word mishnah means a single paragraph of the work, i.e. the smallest unit of structure, leading to the use of the plural, "Mishnayot", for the whole work. Because of the division into six orders, the Mishnah is sometimes called Shas (an <a href="/wiki/Acronym" title="Acronym">acronym</a> for Shisha Sedarim – the "six orders"), although that term is more often used for the Talmud as a whole. The six orders are: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Zeraim" title="Zeraim">Zeraim</a> ("Seeds"), dealing with prayer and blessings, tithes and agricultural laws (11 tractates)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moed" title="Moed">Moed</a> ("Festival"), pertaining to the laws of the Sabbath and the Festivals (12 tractates)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nashim" title="Nashim">Nashim</a> ("Women"), concerning marriage and divorce, some forms of oaths and the laws of the nazirite (7 tractates)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nezikin" title="Nezikin">Nezikin</a> ("Damages"), dealing with civil and criminal law, the functioning of the courts and oaths (10 tractates)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kodashim" title="Kodashim">Kodashim</a> ("Holy things"), regarding sacrificial rites, the <a href="/wiki/Temple_in_Jerusalem" title="Temple in Jerusalem">Temple</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Kashrut" title="Kashrut">dietary laws</a> (11 tractates) and</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tohorot" title="Tohorot">Tohorot</a> ("Purities"), pertaining to the laws of purity and impurity, including the impurity of the dead, food purity, and bodily purity (12 tractates).</li></ul> The <a href="/wiki/Acronym" title="Acronym">acronym</a> "Z'MaN NaKaT" is a popular <a href="/wiki/Mnemonic" title="Mnemonic">mnemonic</a> for these orders.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceB-7">[7]</a> In each order (with the exception of Zeraim), tractates are arranged from biggest (in number of chapters) to smallest. <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236075235">.mw-parser-output .navbox{box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #a2a9b1;width:100%;clear:both;font-size:88%;text-align:center;padding:1px;margin:1em auto 0}.mw-parser-output .navbox .navbox{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .navbox+.navbox,.mw-parser-output .navbox+.navbox-styles+.navbox{margin-top:-1px}.mw-parser-output .navbox-inner,.mw-parser-output .navbox-subgroup{width:100%}.mw-parser-output .navbox-group,.mw-parser-output .navbox-title,.mw-parser-output .navbox-abovebelow{padding:0.25em 1em;line-height:1.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .navbox-group{white-space:nowrap;text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .navbox,.mw-parser-output .navbox-subgroup{background-color:#fdfdfd}.mw-parser-output .navbox-list{line-height:1.5em;border-color:#fdfdfd}.mw-parser-output .navbox-list-with-group{text-align:left;border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid}.mw-parser-output tr+tr>.navbox-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output tr+tr>.navbox-group,.mw-parser-output tr+tr>.navbox-image,.mw-parser-output tr+tr>.navbox-list{border-top:2px solid #fdfdfd}.mw-parser-output .navbox-title{background-color:#ccf}.mw-parser-output .navbox-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .navbox-group,.mw-parser-output .navbox-subgroup .navbox-title{background-color:#ddf}.mw-parser-output .navbox-subgroup .navbox-group,.mw-parser-output .navbox-subgroup .navbox-abovebelow{background-color:#e6e6ff}.mw-parser-output .navbox-even{background-color:#f7f7f7}.mw-parser-output .navbox-odd{background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .navbox .hlist td dl,.mw-parser-output .navbox .hlist td ol,.mw-parser-output .navbox .hlist td ul,.mw-parser-output .navbox td.hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .navbox td.hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .navbox td.hlist ul{padding:0.125em 0}.mw-parser-output .navbox .navbar{display:block;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .navbox-title .navbar{float:left;text-align:left;margin-right:0.5em}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .navbox-image img{max-width:none!important}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .navbox{display:none!important}}</style><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"></div> The <a href="/wiki/Talmud" title="Talmud">Babylonian Talmud</a> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.sefaria.org.il/Chagigah.14a?lang=en">Hagiga 14a</a>) states that there were either six hundred or seven hundred orders of the Mishnah. The Mishnah was divided into six thematic sections by its author, Judah HaNasi.<a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a><a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a> There is also a tradition that <a href="/wiki/Ezra" title="Ezra">Ezra</a> the scribe dictated from memory not only the 24 books of the <a href="/wiki/Tanakh" class="mw-redirect" title="Tanakh">Tanakh</a> but 60 esoteric books. It is not known whether this is a reference to the Mishnah, but there is a case for saying that the Mishnah does consist of 60 tractates. (The current total is 63, but <a href="/wiki/Makkot" title="Makkot">Makkot</a> was originally part of <a href="/wiki/Sanhedrin_(tractate)" title="Sanhedrin (tractate)">Sanhedrin</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Bava_Kamma" title="Bava Kamma">Bava Kamma</a> (literally: "First Portal"), <a href="/wiki/Bava_Metzia" title="Bava Metzia">Bava Metzia</a> ("Middle Portal") and <a href="/wiki/Bava_Batra" title="Bava Batra">Bava Batra</a> ("Final Portal") are often regarded as subdivisions of one enormous tractate, titled simply Nezikin.) <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Omissions">Omissions</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Mishnah&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Omissions" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> A number of important laws are not elaborated upon in the Mishnah. These include the laws of <a href="/wiki/Tzitzit" title="Tzitzit">tzitzit</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tefillin" title="Tefillin">tefillin</a> (phylacteries), <a href="/wiki/Mezuzah" title="Mezuzah">mezuzot</a>, the holiday of <a href="/wiki/Hanukkah" title="Hanukkah">Hanukkah</a>, and the laws of <a href="/wiki/Conversion_to_Judaism" title="Conversion to Judaism">conversion to Judaism</a>. These were later discussed in the <a href="/wiki/Minor_tractate" title="Minor tractate">minor tractates</a>. <a href="/wiki/Nissim_ben_Jacob" title="Nissim ben Jacob">Nissim ben Jacob</a>'s Hakdamah Le'mafteach Hatalmud argued that it was unnecessary for "Judah the Prince" to discuss them as many of these laws were so well known. Margolies suggests that as the Mishnah was <a href="/wiki/Redaction" title="Redaction">redacted</a> after the <a href="/wiki/Bar_Kokhba_revolt" title="Bar Kokhba revolt">Bar Kokhba revolt</a>, Judah could not have included discussion of Hanukkah, which commemorates the Jewish revolt against the <a href="/wiki/Seleucid_Empire" title="Seleucid Empire">Seleucid Empire</a> (the Romans would not have tolerated this overt nationalism). Similarly, there were then several decrees in place aimed at suppressing outward signs of national identity, including decrees against wearing tefillin and tzitzit; as <a href="/wiki/Conversion_to_Judaism" title="Conversion to Judaism">conversion to Judaism</a> was against Roman law, Judah would not have discussed this.<a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a> <a href="/wiki/David_Zvi_Hoffmann" title="David Zvi Hoffmann">David Zvi Hoffmann</a> suggests that there existed ancient texts analogous to the present-day <a href="/wiki/Shulchan_Aruch" title="Shulchan Aruch">Shulchan Aruch</a> that discussed the basic laws of day to day living and it was therefore not necessary to focus on these laws in the Mishnah. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Mishnah,_Gemara,_and_Talmud">Mishnah, Gemara, and Talmud</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Mishnah&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Mishnah, Gemara, and Talmud" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> Rabbinic commentary, debate and analysis on the Mishnah from the next four centuries, done in the <a href="/wiki/Land_of_Israel" title="Land of Israel">Land of Israel</a> and in <a href="/wiki/Babylonia" title="Babylonia">Babylonia</a>, were eventually redacted and compiled as well. In themselves they are known as <a href="/wiki/Gemara" title="Gemara">Gemara</a>. The books which set out the Mishnah in its original structure, together with the associated Gemara, are known as <a href="/wiki/Talmud" title="Talmud">Talmuds</a>. Two Talmuds were compiled, the <a href="/wiki/Talmud#Babylonian_Talmud" title="Talmud">Babylonian Talmud</a> (to which the term "Talmud" normally refers) and the <a href="/wiki/Jerusalem_Talmud" title="Jerusalem Talmud">Jerusalem Talmud</a>, with the oldest surviving Talmudic manuscripts dating to the 8th century CE.<a href="#cite_note-FineS_(2014a)-2">[2]</a><a href="#cite_note-WDL_(2018a)-3">[3]</a> Unlike the Hebrew Mishnah, the Gemara is written primarily in Aramaic. </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(2)"><h2 id="Content_and_purpose">Content and purpose</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Mishnah&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Content and purpose" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-2 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-2"> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kac_1924-10-19_Pinsk_jews_reading_mishnah.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Kac_1924-10-19_Pinsk_jews_reading_mishnah.jpg/220px-Kac_1924-10-19_Pinsk_jews_reading_mishnah.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="320" data-file-height="240"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 165px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Kac_1924-10-19_Pinsk_jews_reading_mishnah.jpg/220px-Kac_1924-10-19_Pinsk_jews_reading_mishnah.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="165" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/Kac_1924-10-19_Pinsk_jews_reading_mishnah.jpg 1.5x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Mishna study, <a href="/wiki/Pinsk" title="Pinsk">Pinsk</a> 1924</figcaption></figure> The Mishnah teaches the oral traditions by example, presenting <a href="/wiki/Case_law" title="Case law">actual cases</a> being brought to judgment, usually along with (i) the debate on the matter, and (ii) the judgment that was given by a notable rabbi based on <a href="/wiki/Halakha" title="Halakha">halakha</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mitzvah" title="Mitzvah">mitzvot</a>, and spirit of the teaching ("Torah") that guided his decision. In this way, the Mishnah brings to everyday reality the practice of the <a href="/wiki/613_Commandments" class="mw-redirect" title="613 Commandments">613 Commandments</a> presented in the Torah and aims to cover all aspects of human living, serve as an example for future judgments, and, most important, demonstrate pragmatic exercise of the Biblical laws, which was much needed since the <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Jerusalem_(70_CE)" title="Siege of Jerusalem (70 CE)">destruction of the Second Temple</a> in <a href="/wiki/AD_70" title="AD 70">70 CE</a>. The Mishnah is thus a collection of existing traditions rather than new law.<a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a> The term "Mishnah" is related to the verb "to teach, repeat", and to adjectives meaning "second". It is thus named for being both the one written authority (codex) secondary (only) to the Tanakh as a basis for the passing of judgment, a source and a tool for creating laws, and the first of many books to complement the Tanakh in certain aspects. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Oral_law">Oral law</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Mishnah&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Oral law" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Oral_Torah" title="Oral Torah">Oral Torah</a></div> Before the publication of the Mishnah, Jewish scholarship and judgement were predominantly oral, as according to the Talmud, it was not permitted to write them down.<a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a> The earliest recorded oral law may have been of the <a href="/wiki/Midrash" title="Midrash">midrashic</a> form, in which <a href="/wiki/Halakha" title="Halakha">halakhic</a> discussion is structured as <a href="/wiki/Exegesis" title="Exegesis">exegetical</a> commentary on the <a href="/wiki/Torah" title="Torah">Torah</a>, with the oldest surviving material dating to the 6th to 7th centuries CE.<a href="#cite_note-FineS_(2014a)-2">[2]</a><a href="#cite_note-WDL_(2018a)-3">[3]</a><a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a> Rabbis expounded on and debated the Tanakh without the benefit of written works (other than the Biblical books themselves), though some may have made private notes (מגילות סתרים) for example of court decisions. The oral traditions were far from monolithic, and varied among various schools, the most famous of which were the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Shammai" class="mw-redirect" title="House of Shammai">House of Shammai</a> and the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Hillel" class="mw-redirect" title="House of Hillel">House of Hillel</a>. After the <a href="/wiki/First_Jewish%E2%80%93Roman_War" title="First Jewish–Roman War">First Jewish–Roman War</a> in 70 CE, with the end of the <a href="/wiki/Second_Temple" title="Second Temple">Second Temple</a> Jewish center in Jerusalem, Jewish social and legal norms were in upheaval. The Rabbis were faced with the new reality of Judaism without a Temple (to serve as the center of teaching and study) and Judea without autonomy. It is during this period that Rabbinic discourse began to be recorded in writing.<a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a><a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a> The possibility was felt that the details of the oral traditions of the <a href="/wiki/Pharisees" title="Pharisees">Pharisees</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Second_Temple_period" title="Second Temple period">Second Temple period</a> (530s BCE / 3230s AM – 70 CE/ 3830 AM) would be forgotten, so the justification was found to have these oral laws transcribed.<a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a><a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a> Over time, different traditions of the Oral Law came into being, raising problems of interpretation. According to the Mevo Hatalmud,<a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a> many rulings were given in a specific context but would be taken out of it, or a ruling was revisited, but the second ruling would not become popularly known. To correct this, Judah the Prince took up the redaction of the Mishnah. If a point was of no conflict, he kept its language; where there was conflict, he reordered the opinions and ruled, and he clarified where context was not given. The idea was not to use his discretion, but rather to examine the tradition as far back as he could, and only supplement as required.<a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Mishnah_and_the_Hebrew_Bible">The Mishnah and the Hebrew Bible</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Mishnah&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: The Mishnah and the Hebrew Bible" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> According to <a href="/wiki/Rabbinic_Judaism" title="Rabbinic Judaism">Rabbinic Judaism</a>, the Oral Torah (<a href="/wiki/Hebrew_language" title="Hebrew language">Hebrew</a>: תורה שבעל-פה) was given to Moses with the <a href="/wiki/Torah" title="Torah">Torah</a> at <a href="/wiki/Biblical_Mount_Sinai" class="mw-redirect" title="Biblical Mount Sinai">Mount Sinai</a> or <a href="/wiki/Mount_Horeb" title="Mount Horeb">Mount Horeb</a> as an exposition to the latter. The accumulated traditions of the Oral Law, expounded by scholars in each generation from Moses onward, is considered as the necessary basis for the interpretation, and often for the reading, of the Written Law. Jews sometimes refer to this as the Masorah (Hebrew: מסורה), roughly translated as tradition, though that word is often used in a narrower sense to mean traditions concerning the editing and reading of the Biblical text (see <a href="/wiki/Masoretic_Text" title="Masoretic Text">Masoretic Text</a>). The resulting Jewish law and custom is called <a href="/wiki/Halakha" title="Halakha">halakha</a>. While most discussions in the Mishnah concern the correct way to carry out laws recorded in the Torah, it usually presents its conclusions without explicitly linking them to any scriptural passage, though scriptural quotations do occur. For this reason it is arranged in order of topics rather than in the form of a Biblical commentary. (In a very few cases, there is no scriptural source at all and the law is described as Halakha leMoshe miSinai, "law to Moses from Sinai".) The <a href="/wiki/Midrash_halakha" title="Midrash halakha">Midrash halakha</a>, by contrast, while presenting similar laws, does so in the form of a Biblical commentary and explicitly links its conclusions to details in the Biblical text. These Midrashim often predate the Mishnah. The Mishnah also quotes the Torah for principles not associated with <a href="/wiki/Law" title="Law">law</a>, but just as practical advice, even at times for humor or as guidance for understanding historical debates. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Rejection">Rejection</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Mishnah&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Rejection" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> Some Jews do not accept the codification of the oral law at all. <a href="/wiki/Karaite_Judaism" title="Karaite Judaism">Karaite Judaism</a>, for example, recognises only the Tanakh as <a href="/wiki/Religious_text" title="Religious text">authoritative</a> in <a href="/wiki/Halakha" title="Halakha">Halakha</a> (Jewish <a href="/wiki/Religious_law" title="Religious law">religious law</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Theology" title="Theology">theology</a>. It rejects the codification of the <a href="/wiki/Oral_Torah" title="Oral Torah">Oral Torah</a> in the Mishnah and <a href="/wiki/Talmud" title="Talmud">Talmud</a> and subsequent works of mainstream <a href="/wiki/Rabbinic_Judaism" title="Rabbinic Judaism">Rabbinic Judaism</a> which maintain that the Talmud is an authoritative interpretation of the <a href="/wiki/Torah" title="Torah">Torah</a>. Karaites maintain that all of the <a href="/wiki/Mitzvah" title="Mitzvah">divine commandments</a> handed down to <a href="/wiki/Moses" title="Moses">Moses</a> by God were recorded in the written Torah without additional Oral Law or explanation. As a result, Karaite Jews do not accept as binding the written collections of the oral tradition in the Midrash or Talmud. The Karaites comprised a significant portion of the world Jewish population in the 10th and 11th centuries CE, and remain extant, although they currently number in the thousands. </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(3)"><h2 id="Authorship">Authorship</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Mishnah&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Authorship" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-3 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-3"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Tannaim" title="Tannaim">Tannaim</a></div> The rabbis who contributed to the Mishnah are known as the Tannaim,<a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a><a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a> of whom approximately 120 are known. The period during which the Mishnah was assembled spanned about 130 years, or five generations, in the first and second centuries CE. <a href="/wiki/Judah_ha-Nasi" title="Judah ha-Nasi">Judah ha-Nasi</a> is credited with the final redaction and publication of the Mishnah,<a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a> although there have been a few additions since his time:<a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a> those passages that cite him or his grandson (<a href="/wiki/Judah_II" title="Judah II">Judah II</a>), and the end of <a href="/wiki/Sotah_(Talmud)" title="Sotah (Talmud)">tractate Sotah</a> (which refers to the period after Judah's death). In addition to redacting the Mishnah, Judah and his court also ruled on which opinions should be followed, although the rulings do not always appear in the text. Most of the Mishnah is related without <a href="/wiki/Attribution_(copyright)" title="Attribution (copyright)">attribution</a> (stam). This usually indicates that many sages taught so, or that Judah the Prince ruled so. The halakhic ruling usually follows that view. Sometimes, however, it appears to be the opinion of a single sage, and the view of the sages collectively (<a href="/wiki/Hebrew_language" title="Hebrew language">Hebrew</a>: חכמים, hachamim) is given separately. As Judah the Prince went through the tractates, the Mishnah was set forth, but throughout his life some parts were updated as new information came to light. Because of the proliferation of earlier versions, it was deemed too hard to retract anything already released, and therefore a second version of certain laws were released. The <a href="/wiki/Talmud" title="Talmud">Talmud</a> refers to these differing versions as Mishnah Rishonah ("First Mishnah") and Mishnah Acharonah ("Last Mishnah"). <a href="/wiki/David_Zvi_Hoffmann" title="David Zvi Hoffmann">David Zvi Hoffmann</a> suggests that Mishnah Rishonah actually refers to texts from earlier Sages upon which Rebbi based his Mishnah. The Talmud records a tradition that unattributed statements of the law represent the views of <a href="/wiki/Rabbi_Meir" title="Rabbi Meir">Rabbi Meir</a> (Sanhedrin 86a), which supports the theory (recorded by <a href="/wiki/Sherira_Gaon" class="mw-redirect" title="Sherira Gaon">Sherira Gaon</a> in his famous Iggeret) that he was the author of an earlier collection. For this reason, the few passages that actually say "this is the view of Rabbi Meir" represent cases where the author intended to present Rabbi Meir's view as a "minority opinion" not representing the accepted law. There are also references to the "Mishnah of <a href="/wiki/Rabbi_Akiva" title="Rabbi Akiva">Rabbi Akiva</a>", suggesting a still earlier collection;<a href="#cite_note-24">[24]</a> on the other hand, these references may simply mean his teachings in general. Another possibility is that Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Meir established the divisions and order of subjects in the Mishnah, making them the authors of a school curriculum rather than of a book. Authorities are divided on whether Rabbi Judah the Prince recorded the Mishnah in writing or established it as an oral text for memorisation. The most important early account of its composition, the Iggeret Rav Sherira Gaon (Epistle of Rabbi Sherira Gaon) is ambiguous on the point, although the Spanish recension leans to the theory that the Mishnah was written. However, the Talmud records that, in every study session, there was a person called the tanna appointed to recite the Mishnah passage under discussion. This may indicate that, even if the Mishnah was reduced to writing, it was not available on general distribution. </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(4)"><h2 id="Mishnah_studies">Mishnah studies</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Mishnah&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Mishnah studies" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-4 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-4"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a>. 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One is found in manuscripts and printed editions of the Mishnah on its own, or as part of the <a href="/wiki/Jerusalem_Talmud" title="Jerusalem Talmud">Jerusalem Talmud</a>. The other is found in manuscripts and editions of the Babylonian <a href="/wiki/Talmud" title="Talmud">Talmud</a>; though there is sometimes a difference between the text of a whole paragraph printed at the beginning of a discussion (which may be edited to conform with the text of the Mishnah-only editions) and the line-by-line citations in the course of the discussion. Robert Brody, in his Mishna and Tosefta Studies (Jerusalem 2014), warns against over-simplifying the picture by assuming that the Mishnah-only tradition is always the more authentic, or that it represents a "Palestinian" as against a "Babylonian" tradition. Manuscripts from the <a href="/wiki/Cairo_Geniza" title="Cairo Geniza">Cairo Geniza</a>, or citations in other works, may support either type of reading or other readings altogether. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Manuscripts">Manuscripts</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Mishnah&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Manuscripts" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> Complete manuscripts (mss.) bolded. The earliest extant material witness to rabbinic literature of any kind is dating to the 6th–7th centuries CE, see <a href="/wiki/Mosaic_of_Rehob" title="Mosaic of Rehob">Mosaic of Rehob</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FineS_(2014a)-2">[2]</a><a href="#cite_note-WDL_(2018a)-3">[3]</a> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Usual name</th> <th>Formal designation</th> <th>Place written</th> <th>Period written</th> <th>Description </th></tr> <tr> <td>Kaufmann</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Hungarian_Academy_of_Sciences" title="Hungarian Academy of Sciences">Hungarian Academy of Sciences</a> Library <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://kaufmann.mtak.hu/en/ms50/ms50-coll1.htm">Kaufmann ms. A50</a></td> <td>Prob. Palestine</td> <td>10th, possibly 11th C.</td> <td>It is considered the best manuscript and forms the base text of all critical editions. Vocalization is by a different, later hand. </td></tr> <tr> <td>Parma</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Biblioteca_Palatina" class="mw-redirect" title="Biblioteca Palatina">Biblioteca Palatina</a> ms. Parm. 3173</td> <td>Palestine or Southern Italy, which in any case it reached soon after being written down</td> <td>Script shows strong similarities to Codex Hebr. Vaticanus 31, securely dated to 1073</td> <td>The Parma ms. is close to the Kaufmann ms. palaeographically but not textually. Text is closest to the Mishnah quotations given in the <a href="/wiki/Jehiel_b._Jekuthiel_Anav#LeidenJerusalemTalmud" class="mw-redirect" title="Jehiel b. Jekuthiel Anav">Leiden Palestinian Talmud</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td>Cambridge / Lowe</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Cambridge_University_Library" title="Cambridge University Library">Cambridge University Library</a> ms. Add. 470 (II)</td> <td>Sepharadic</td> <td>14–15th C.</td> <td>A very careless copy, it is nonetheless useful where the Kaufmann text is corrupt. </td></tr> <tr> <td>Parma B</td> <td></td> <td>North Africa</td> <td>12–13th C.</td> <td>Toharot only. Unlike all of the above mss., the vocalization and consonant text are probably by the same hand, which makes it the oldest vocalization of part of the Mishnah known. </td></tr> <tr> <td>Yemenite ms.</td> <td><a href="/wiki/National_Library_of_Israel" title="National Library of Israel">National Library of Israel</a> quarto 1336</td> <td>Yemen</td> <td>17–18th C.</td> <td>Nezikin to Toharot. The consonant text is dependent on early printed editions. The value of this ms. lies exclusively in the vocalization. </td></tr></tbody></table> The Literature of the Jewish People in the Period of the Second Temple and the Talmud, Volume 3 The Literature of the Sages: First Part: Oral Tora, Halakha, Mishna, Tosefta, Talmud, External Tractates. 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Shmuel Safrai, Brill, 1987, <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9004275134" title="Special:BookSources/9004275134">9004275134</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Printed_editions">Printed editions</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Mishnah&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Printed editions" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> The first printed edition of the Mishnah was published in <a href="/wiki/Naples" title="Naples">Naples</a>. There have been many subsequent editions, including the late 19th century <a href="/wiki/Vilnius" title="Vilnius">Vilna</a> edition, which is the basis of the editions now used by the religious public. Vocalized editions were published in Italy, culminating in the edition of <a href="/wiki/David_ben_Solomon_Altaras" title="David ben Solomon Altaras">David ben Solomon Altaras</a>, publ. Venice 1737. The Altaras edition was republished in <a href="/wiki/Mantua" title="Mantua">Mantua</a> in 1777, in <a href="/wiki/Pisa" title="Pisa">Pisa</a> in 1797 and 1810 and in <a href="/wiki/Livorno" title="Livorno">Livorno</a> in many editions from 1823 until 1936: reprints of the vocalized Livorno editions were published in Israel in 1913, 1962, 1968 and 1976. These editions show some textual variants by bracketing doubtful words and passages, though they do not attempt detailed textual criticism. The Livorno editions are the basis of the Sephardic tradition for recitation. As well as being printed on its own, the Mishnah is included in all editions of the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds. Each paragraph is printed on its own, and followed by the relevant Gemara discussion. However, that discussion itself often cites the Mishnah line by line. While the text printed in paragraph form has generally been standardized to follow the Vilna edition, the text cited line by line in the Gemara often preserves important variants, which sometimes reflect the readings of older manuscripts. The nearest approach to a critical edition is that of <a href="/wiki/Hanoch_Albeck" title="Hanoch Albeck">Hanoch Albeck</a>. There is also an edition by <a href="/wiki/Yosef_Qafi%E1%B8%A5" class="mw-redirect" title="Yosef Qafiḥ">Yosef Qafiḥ</a> of the Mishnah together with the commentary of <a href="/wiki/Maimonides" title="Maimonides">Maimonides</a>, which compares the base text used by Maimonides with the Napoli and <a href="/wiki/Vilna" class="mw-redirect" title="Vilna">Vilna</a> editions and other sources. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Oral_traditions_and_pronunciation">Oral traditions and pronunciation</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Mishnah&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Oral traditions and pronunciation" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .side-box-flex{display:flex;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{flex:1;min-width:0}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .side-box{width:238px}.mw-parser-output .side-box-right{clear:right;float:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-left{margin-right:1em}}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1096940132">.mw-parser-output .listen .side-box-text{line-height:1.1em}.mw-parser-output .listen-plain{border:none;background:transparent}.mw-parser-output .listen-embedded{width:100%;margin:0;border-width:1px 0 0 0;background:transparent}.mw-parser-output .listen-header{padding:2px}.mw-parser-output .listen-embedded .listen-header{padding:2px 0}.mw-parser-output .listen-file-header{padding:4px 0}.mw-parser-output .listen .description{padding-top:2px}.mw-parser-output .listen .mw-tmh-player{max-width:100%}@media(max-width:719px){.mw-parser-output .listen{clear:both}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .listen:not(.listen-noimage){width:320px}.mw-parser-output .listen-left{overflow:visible;float:left}.mw-parser-output .listen-center{float:none;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto}}</style><div class="side-box side-box-right listen noprint"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><noscript><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg/50px-Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="50" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="160" data-file-height="160"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 50px;height: 50px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg/50px-Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg.png" data-alt="" data-width="50" data-height="50" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg/75px-Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg/100px-Gnome-mime-sound-openclipart.svg.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> <figcaption></figcaption></figure></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist"><div class="haudio"> <div class="listen-file-header"><a href="/wiki/File:Omar_Rabbi_Elozor.ogg" title="File:Omar Rabbi Elozor.ogg">Amar Rabbi Elazar</a></div> <div><audio id="mwe_player_0" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="232" style="width:232px;" data-durationhint="234" data-mwtitle="Omar_Rabbi_Elozor.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Omar_Rabbi_Elozor.ogg" type='audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"' data-width="0" data-height="0"></source><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/50/Omar_Rabbi_Elozor.ogg/Omar_Rabbi_Elozor.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0"></source></audio></div> <div class="description">A traditional setting of the last passage of the first tractate, <a href="/wiki/Berakhot_(Talmud)" class="mw-redirect" title="Berakhot (Talmud)">Berakhot</a>, which describes how scholars of the Talmud create peace in the world. Performed by <a href="/wiki/Hazzan" title="Hazzan">Cantor</a> Meyer Kanewsky in 1919 for <a href="/wiki/Edison_Records" title="Edison Records">Edison Records</a>.</div></div></div></div> <div class="side-box-abovebelow"><hr>Problems playing this file? See <a href="/wiki/Help:Media" title="Help:Media">media help</a>.</div> </div> The Mishnah was and still is traditionally studied through <a href="/wiki/Recitation" title="Recitation">recitation</a> (out loud). Jewish communities around the world preserved local melodies for chanting the Mishnah, and distinctive ways of pronouncing its words. Many medieval manuscripts of the Mishnah are vowelized, and some of these, especially some fragments found in the <a href="/wiki/Cairo_Geniza" title="Cairo Geniza">Genizah</a>, are partially annotated with <a href="/wiki/Tiberian_vocalization" title="Tiberian vocalization">Tiberian</a> <a href="/wiki/Hebrew_cantillation" title="Hebrew cantillation">cantillation</a> marks.<a href="#cite_note-25">[25]</a> Today, many communities have a special tune for the Mishnaic passage "Bammeh madliqin" in the <a href="/wiki/Kabbalat_Shabbat" class="mw-redirect" title="Kabbalat Shabbat">Friday night service</a>; there may also be tunes for Mishnaic passages in other parts of the liturgy, such as the passages in the daily prayers relating to sacrifices and incense and the paragraphs recited at the end of the <a href="/wiki/Musaf" class="mw-redirect" title="Musaf">Musaf</a> service on <a href="/wiki/Shabbat" title="Shabbat">Shabbat</a>. Otherwise, there is often a customary intonation used in the study of Mishnah or Talmud, somewhat similar to an Arabic <a href="/wiki/Mawwal" title="Mawwal">mawwal</a>, but this is not reduced to a precise system like that for the Biblical books. (In some traditions this intonation is the same as or similar to that used for the <a href="/wiki/Passover" title="Passover">Passover</a> <a href="/wiki/Haggadah" title="Haggadah">Haggadah</a>.) Recordings have been made for Israeli national archives, and Frank Alvarez-Pereyre has published a book-length study of the Syrian tradition of Mishnah reading on the basis of these recordings. Most vowelized editions of the Mishnah today reflect standard <a href="/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jews" title="Ashkenazi Jews">Ashkenazic</a> vowelization, and often contain mistakes. The Albeck edition of the Mishnah was vocalized by <a href="/wiki/Hanoch_Yelon" title="Hanoch Yelon">Hanoch Yelon</a>, who made careful eclectic use of both medieval manuscripts and current oral traditions of pronunciation from Jewish communities all over the world. The Albeck edition includes an introduction by Yelon detailing his eclectic method. Two institutes at the <a href="/wiki/Hebrew_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Hebrew University">Hebrew University</a> in Jerusalem have collected major oral archives which hold extensive recordings of Jews chanting the Mishnah using a variety of melodies and many different kinds of pronunciation.<a href="#cite_note-26">[26]</a> These institutes are the Jewish Oral Traditions Research Center and the National Voice Archives (the Phonoteca at the Jewish National and University Library). See below for external links. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="As_a_historical_source">As a historical source</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Mishnah&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: As a historical source" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> Both the Mishnah and Talmud contain little serious biographical studies of the people discussed therein, and the same tractate will conflate the points of view of many different people. Yet, sketchy biographies of the Mishnaic sages can often be constructed with historical detail from Talmudic and <a href="/wiki/Midrash" title="Midrash">Midrashic</a> sources. According to the Encyclopaedia Judaica (Second Edition), it is accepted that Judah the Prince added, deleted, and rewrote his source material during the process of redacting the Mishnah between the ending of the second century and the beginning of the 3rd century CE.<a href="#cite_note-EJ_(2007a)-5">[5]</a> Modern authors who have provided examples of these changes include J.N. Epstein and S. Friedman.<a href="#cite_note-EJ327-27">[27]</a> Following Judah the Prince's redaction there remained a number of different versions of the Mishnah in circulation. The Mishnah used in the Babylonian rabbinic community differing markedly from that used in the Palestinian one. Indeed within these rabbinic communities themselves there are indications of different versions being used for study. These differences are shown in divergent citations of individual Mishnah passages in the Talmud Yerushalmi and the Talmud Bavli, and in variances of medieval manuscripts and early editions of the Mishnah. The best known examples of these differences is found in J.N.Epstein's Introduction to the Text of the Mishnah (1948).<a href="#cite_note-EJ327-27">[27]</a> Epstein has also concluded that the period of the Amoraim was one of further deliberate changes to the text of the Mishnah, which he views as attempts to return the text to what was regarded as its original form. These lessened over time, as the text of the Mishnah became more and more regarded as authoritative.<a href="#cite_note-EJ327-27">[27]</a> Many modern historical scholars have focused on the timing and the formation of the Mishnah. A vital question is whether it is composed of sources which date from its editor's lifetime, and to what extent is it composed of earlier, or later sources. Are Mishnaic disputes distinguishable along theological or communal lines, and in what ways do different sections derive from different schools of thought within early Judaism? Can these early sources be identified, and if so, how? In response to these questions, modern scholars have adopted a number of different approaches. <ul><li>Some scholars hold that there has been extensive editorial reshaping of the stories and statements within the Mishnah (and later, in the Talmud.) Lacking outside confirming texts, they hold that we cannot confirm the origin or date of most statements and laws, and that we can say little for certain about their authorship. In this view, the questions above are impossible to answer. See, for example, the works of <a href="/wiki/Louis_Jacobs" title="Louis Jacobs">Louis Jacobs</a>, Baruch M. Bokser, <a href="/wiki/Shaye_J._D._Cohen" title="Shaye J. D. Cohen">Shaye J. D. Cohen</a>, Steven D. Fraade.</li> <li>Some scholars hold that the Mishnah and Talmud have been extensively shaped by later editorial redaction, but that it contains sources which we can identify and describe with some level of reliability. In this view, sources can be identified to some extent because each era of history and each distinct geographical region has its own unique feature, which one can trace and analyze. Thus, the questions above may be analyzed. See, for example, the works of Goodblatt, Lee Levine, David C. Kraemer and Robert Goldenberg.</li> <li>Some scholars hold that many or most of the statements and events described in the Mishnah and Talmud usually occurred more or less as described, and that they can be used as serious sources of historical study. In this view, historians do attempt to tease out later editorial additions leaving behind a possible historical text. See, for example, the works of <a href="/wiki/Saul_Lieberman" title="Saul Lieberman">Saul Lieberman</a>, <a href="/wiki/David_Weiss_Halivni" title="David Weiss Halivni">David Weiss Halivni</a>, Avraham Goldberg and Dov Zlotnick.</li></ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(5)"><h2 id="Commentaries">Commentaries</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Mishnah&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Commentaries" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-5 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-5"> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mishnah_Commentary_in_Judeo-Arabic_WDL3967.pdf" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img 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Judeo-Arabic</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mishnah-Bartenura-Venice-1548-F-HB42445.pdf" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Mishnah-Bartenura-Venice-1548-F-HB42445.pdf/page1-220px-Mishnah-Bartenura-Venice-1548-F-HB42445.pdf.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="328" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="758" data-file-height="1129"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 328px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Mishnah-Bartenura-Venice-1548-F-HB42445.pdf/page1-220px-Mishnah-Bartenura-Venice-1548-F-HB42445.pdf.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="328" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Mishnah-Bartenura-Venice-1548-F-HB42445.pdf/page1-330px-Mishnah-Bartenura-Venice-1548-F-HB42445.pdf.jpg 1.5x, 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//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/%D7%9E%D7%A9%D7%A0%D7%94_%D7%A1%D7%93%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%94_-_%D7%A1%D7%99%D7%9B%D7%95%D7%9D_%D7%94%D7%92%D7%9E%D7%A8%D7%90_-_%D7%97%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%AA%D7%90.jpg/440px-%D7%9E%D7%A9%D7%A0%D7%94_%D7%A1%D7%93%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%94_-_%D7%A1%D7%99%D7%9B%D7%95%D7%9D_%D7%94%D7%92%D7%9E%D7%A8%D7%90_-_%D7%97%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%AA%D7%90.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Gemara students using the Mishnah Sdura to note their summary of each <a href="/wiki/Sugya" class="mw-redirect" title="Sugya">sugya</a> alongside its Mishnah</figcaption></figure> The main work discussing the Mishnah is the Talmud, <a href="#Mishnah,_Gemara,_and_Talmud">as outlined</a>. However, the Talmud is not usually viewed as a commentary on the Mishnah per se, because:<a href="#cite_note-28">[28]</a> the Talmud also has many other goals; its analysis — "<a href="/wiki/Gemara" title="Gemara">Gemara</a>" — often entails long, tangential discussions; and neither version of the Talmud covers the entire Mishnah (each covers about 50–70% of the text).<a href="#cite_note-29">[29]</a> As a result, numerous <a href="/wiki/Commentary_(philology)" title="Commentary (philology)">commentaries-proper</a> on the Mishna have been written, typically intended to allow for the study of the work without requiring direct reference to (and facility for) the Gemara.<a href="#cite_note-30">[30]</a> Mishnah study, independent of the Talmud, was a marginal phenomenon before the late 15th century. The few commentaries that had been published tended to be limited to the tractates not covered by the Talmud, while Maimonides' commentary was written in Judeo-Arabic and thus inaccessible to many Jewish communities. Dedicated Mishnah study grew vastly in popularity beginning in the late 16th century, due to the <a href="/wiki/Kabbalistic" class="mw-redirect" title="Kabbalistic">kabbalistic</a> emphasis on Mishnah study and as a reaction against the methods of <a href="/wiki/Pilpul" title="Pilpul">pilpul</a>; it was aided by the spread of Bertinoro's accessible Hebrew Mishnah commentary around this time.<a href="#cite_note-marvin-31">[31]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="List_of_commentaries">List of commentaries</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Mishnah&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: List of commentaries" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> Commentaries by <a href="/wiki/Rishonim" title="Rishonim">Rishonim</a>: <ul><li>In 1168, <a href="/wiki/Maimonides" title="Maimonides">Maimonides</a> (Rambam) published Kitab as-Siraj (The Book of the Lantern, <a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a>: كتاب السراج) a comprehensive commentary on the Mishnah. It was written in Arabic using Hebrew letters (what is termed <a href="/wiki/Judeo-Arabic_languages" class="mw-redirect" title="Judeo-Arabic languages">Judeo-Arabic</a>) and was one of the first commentaries of its kind. In it, Rambam condensed the associated <a href="/wiki/Gemara" title="Gemara">Talmudical debates</a>, and offered his <a href="/wiki/Posek" title="Posek">conclusions</a> in a number of undecided issues. Of particular significance are the various introductory sections – as well as the introduction to the work itself<a href="#cite_note-32">[32]</a> – these are widely quoted in other works on the Mishnah, and on the <a href="/wiki/Oral_law" title="Oral law">Oral law</a> in general. Perhaps the most famous is his introduction to the tenth chapter of tractate Sanhedrin<a href="#cite_note-33">[33]</a> where he enumerates the <a href="/wiki/Maimonides#Thirteen_principles_of_faith" title="Maimonides">thirteen fundamental beliefs</a> of <a href="/wiki/Judaism" title="Judaism">Judaism</a>.</li> <li>Rabbi <a href="/wiki/Samson_of_Sens" class="mw-redirect" title="Samson of Sens">Samson of Sens</a> ("the Rash") was, apart from Maimonides, one of the few rabbis of the early medieval era to compose a Mishnah commentary on some tractates. It is printed in many editions of the Mishnah. It is interwoven with his commentary on major parts of the Tosefta.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asher_ben_Jehiel" title="Asher ben Jehiel">Asher ben Jehiel</a> (Rosh)'s commentary on some tractates</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Menachem_Meiri" class="mw-redirect" title="Menachem Meiri">Menachem Meiri</a>'s commentary on most of the Mishnah, <a href="/wiki/Menachem_Meiri#Beit_HaBechirah" class="mw-redirect" title="Menachem Meiri">Beit HaBechirah</a>, providing a digest of the Talmudic-discussion and Rishonim there</li> <li>An 11th-century CE commentary of the Mishnah, composed by Rabbi <a href="/wiki/Nathan_ben_Abraham_I" title="Nathan ben Abraham I">Nathan ben Abraham</a>, President of the Academy in Eretz Israel. This relatively unknown commentary was first printed in Israel in 1955.</li> <li>A 12th-century Italian commentary of the Mishnah, made by Rabbi <a href="/wiki/Isaac_ben_Melchizedek" title="Isaac ben Melchizedek">Isaac ben Melchizedek</a> (only <a href="/wiki/Seder_Zera%27im" class="mw-redirect" title="Seder Zera'im">Seder Zera'im</a> is known to have survived)</li></ul> Prominent commentaries by early <a href="/wiki/Acharonim" title="Acharonim">Acharonim</a>: <ul><li>Rabbi <a href="/wiki/Obadiah_ben_Abraham" class="mw-redirect" title="Obadiah ben Abraham">Obadiah ben Abraham</a> of <a href="/wiki/Bertinoro" title="Bertinoro">Bertinoro</a> (15th century) wrote one of the most popular Mishnah commentaries. He draws on Maimonides' work but also offers Talmudical material (in effect a summary of the <a href="/wiki/Gemara" title="Gemara">Talmudic discussion</a>) largely following the commentary of <a href="/wiki/Rashi" title="Rashi">Rashi</a>.<a href="#cite_note-marvin-31">[31]</a> In addition to its role as a Mishnah commentary, this work is often used by students of Talmud as a review-text and is often referred to as "the Bartenura" or "the Ra'V".</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yomtov_Lipman_Heller" class="mw-redirect" title="Yomtov Lipman Heller">Yomtov Lipman Heller</a> wrote a commentary called Tosefet Yom Tov. In the introduction Heller says that his aim is to add a supplement (tosefet) to Bertinoro's commentary in the style of the <a href="/wiki/Tosafot" title="Tosafot">Tosafot</a>. The glosses are sometimes quite detailed and analytic. In many compact Mishnah printings, a condensed version of his commentary, titled Ikar Tosefot Yom Tov, is featured.</li></ul> Other commentaries by early Acharonim: <ul><li>Melechet Shlomo (<a href="/wiki/Solomon_Adeni" title="Solomon Adeni">Solomon Adeni</a>; early 17th century)</li> <li><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%91_%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%A7%D7%99_(%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%A9_%D7%9C%D7%9E%D7%A9%D7%A0%D7%94)" class="extiw" title="he:קב ונקי (פירוש למשנה)">Kav veNaki</a> (Amsterdam 1697) by <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/5684-elisha-ben-abraham-ben-judah">R. Elisha en Avraham</a>, a brief commentary on the entire Mishnah drawing from "the Bartenura", reprinted 20 times since its publication</li> <li>Hon Ashir by <a href="/wiki/Immanuel_Hai_Ricchi" title="Immanuel Hai Ricchi">Immanuel Hai Ricchi</a> (Amsterdam 1731)</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Vilna_Gaon" title="Vilna Gaon">Vilna Gaon</a> (Shenot Eliyahu on parts of the Mishnah, and glosses Eliyaho Rabba, Chidushei HaGra, Meoros HaGra)</li></ul> 19th century: <ul><li>A (the) prominent commentary here is Tiferet Yisrael by Rabbi <a href="/wiki/Israel_Lipschitz" title="Israel Lipschitz">Israel Lipschitz</a>. It is subdivided into two parts, one more general and the other more analytical, titled Yachin and Boaz respectively (after two large pillars in the <a href="/wiki/Temple_in_Jerusalem" title="Temple in Jerusalem">Temple in Jerusalem</a>). Although Rabbi Lipschutz has faced some controversy in certain Hasidic circles, he was greatly respected by such sages as Rabbi <a href="/wiki/Akiva_Eiger" title="Akiva Eiger">Akiva Eiger</a>, whom he frequently cites, and is widely accepted in the <a href="/wiki/Yeshiva" title="Yeshiva">Yeshiva</a> world. The Tiferet Yaakov is an important gloss on the Tiferet Yisrael.</li> <li>Others from this time include: <ul><li>Rabbi <a href="/wiki/Akiva_Eiger" title="Akiva Eiger">Akiva Eiger</a> (glosses, rather than a commentary)</li> <li>Mishnah Rishonah on Zeraim and the Mishnah Acharonah on Tohorot (Rav Efrayim Yitzchok from Premishla)</li> <li>Sidrei Tohorot on Kelim and Oholot (the commentary on the rest of Tohorot and on Eduyot is lost) by <a href="/wiki/Gershon_Henoch_Leiner" title="Gershon Henoch Leiner">Gershon Henoch Leiner</a>, the Radziner Rebbe</li> <li>Gulot Iliyot on Mikvaot, by Rav Dov Ber Lifshitz</li> <li>Ahavat Eitan by Rav Avrohom Abba Krenitz (the great grandfather of Rav <a href="/wiki/Malkiel_Kotler" title="Malkiel Kotler">Malkiel Kotler</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chazon_Ish" class="mw-redirect" title="Chazon Ish">Chazon Ish</a> on Zeraim and Tohorot</li></ul></li></ul> 20th century: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hayim_Nahman_Bialik" title="Hayim Nahman Bialik">Hayim Nahman Bialik</a>'s commentary to Seder <a href="/wiki/Zeraim" title="Zeraim">Zeraim</a> with vocalization (partially available <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.hebrewbooks.org/33831">here</a>) in 1930 was one of the first attempts to create a modern commentary on Mishnah.<a href="#cite_note-34">[34]</a> His decision to use the Vilna text (as opposed to a modern scholarly edition), and to write an introduction to every tractate describing its content and the relevant biblical material, influenced <a href="/wiki/Hanoch_Albeck" title="Hanoch Albeck">Hanoch Albeck</a>, whose project was considered a continuation and expansion of Bialik's. <a href="#cite_note-35">[35]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hanoch_Albeck" title="Hanoch Albeck">Hanoch Albeck</a>'s edition (1952–59) (vocalized by <a href="/wiki/Hanoch_Yelon" title="Hanoch Yelon">Hanoch Yelon</a>), includes Albeck's extensive commentary on each Mishnah, as well as introductions to each tractate (Masekhet) and order (Seder). This commentary tends to focus on the meaning of the mishnayot themselves, with less reliance on the Gemara's interpretation and is, therefore, considered valuable as a tool for the study of Mishnah as an independent work. Especially important are the scholarly notes in the back of the commentary.</li> <li>Symcha Petrushka's commentary was written in <a href="/wiki/Yiddish" title="Yiddish">Yiddish</a> in 1945 (published in Montreal).<a href="#cite_note-36">[36]</a> Its vocalization is supposed to be of high quality.</li> <li>The commentary by Rabbi <a href="/wiki/Pinhas_Kehati" class="mw-redirect" title="Pinhas Kehati">Pinhas Kehati</a>, which uses the Albeck text of the Mishnah, is written in <a href="/wiki/Modern_Hebrew" title="Modern Hebrew">Modern Israeli Hebrew</a> and based on classical and contemporary works, has become popular in the late 20th century. The commentary is designed to make the Mishnah accessible to a wide readership. Each tractate is introduced with an overview of its contents, including historical and legal background material, and each Mishnah is prefaced by a thematic introduction. The current version of this edition is printed with the Bartenura commentary as well as Kehati's.</li> <li>The encyclopedic editions put out by Mishnat Rav Aharon (Beis Medrosho Govoah, Lakewood) on Peah, Sheviit, Challah, and Yadayim.</li> <li>Rabbi <a href="/wiki/Yehuda_Leib_Ginsburg" title="Yehuda Leib Ginsburg">Yehuda Leib Ginsburg</a> wrote a commentary on ethical issues, Musar HaMishnah. The commentary appears for the entire text except for <a href="/wiki/Tohorot" title="Tohorot">Tohorot</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kodashim" title="Kodashim">Kodashim</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shmuel_Safrai" title="Shmuel Safrai">Shmuel Safrai</a>, Chana Safrai and <a href="/wiki/Ze%27ev_Safrai" title="Ze'ev Safrai">Ze'ev Safrai</a> have half completed a 45 volume socio-historic commentary "Mishnat Eretz Yisrael".<a href="#cite_note-37">[37]</a></li> <li><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%A9%D7%A0%D7%94_%D7%A1%D7%93%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%94_(%D7%94%D7%95%D7%A6%D7%90%D7%AA_%D7%A1%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%9D)" class="extiw" title="he:משנה סדורה (הוצאת ספרים)">Mishnah Sdura</a>, a format specially designed so as to facilitate recital and memorization, published by Rabbi E. Dordek in 1992. The layout is such that an entire chapter and its structure is readily visible, with each Mishnah, in turn, displayed in its component parts using line breaks (click on above image to view); includes tables summarizing each tractate, and the Kav veNaki commentary.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/ArtScroll" title="ArtScroll">ArtScroll</a>'s "Elucidated Mishnah", a phrase-by-phrase translation and elucidation based on the Bertinoro - following the format of the <a href="/wiki/Schottenstein_Edition_of_the_Babylonian_Talmud" title="Schottenstein Edition of the Babylonian Talmud">Schottenstein Edition Talmud</a>. Its "Yad Avraham" commentary comprises supplementary explanations and notes, drawing on the Gemara and the other Mishnah commentaries and cross referencing the <a href="/wiki/Shulchan_Aruch" title="Shulchan Aruch">Shulchan Aruch</a> as applicable. The work also includes a general introduction to each tractate. The <a href="/wiki/Modern_Hebrew" title="Modern Hebrew">Modern Hebrew</a> (Ryzman) edition includes all these features.</li></ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(6)"><h2 id="Cultural_references">Cultural references</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Mishnah&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Cultural references" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-6 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-6"> A notable literary work on the composition of the Mishnah is <a href="/wiki/Milton_Steinberg" title="Milton Steinberg">Milton Steinberg</a>'s novel <a href="/wiki/As_a_Driven_Leaf" title="As a Driven Leaf">As a Driven Leaf</a>. </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(7)"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2> <a role="button" 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However, it is not always clear from the context if the reference is to the Mishnah or the <a href="/wiki/Targum" title="Targum">Targum</a>, which could be regarded as a "doubling" of the Torah reading. </li> <li id="cite_note-FineS_(2014a)-2">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FineS_(2014a)_2-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FineS_(2014a)_2-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FineS_(2014a)_2-2">c</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FineS_(2014a)_2-3">d</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFineKoller2014" class="citation book cs1">Fine, Steven; Koller, Aaron J. (2014). Talmuda de-Eretz Israel: archaeology and the rabbis in late antique Palestine. Studia Judaica. Center for Israel studies. Boston: De Gruyter. pp. 231–237. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-61451-485-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-61451-485-5"><bdi>978-1-61451-485-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Talmuda+de-Eretz+Israel%3A+archaeology+and+the+rabbis+in+late+antique+Palestine&rft.place=Boston&rft.series=Studia+Judaica&rft.pages=231-237&rft.pub=De+Gruyter&rft.date=2014&rft.isbn=978-1-61451-485-5&rft.aulast=Fine&rft.aufirst=Steven&rft.au=Koller%2C+Aaron+J.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMishnah" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-WDL_(2018a)-3">^ <a href="#cite_ref-WDL_(2018a)_3-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-WDL_(2018a)_3-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-WDL_(2018a)_3-2">c</a> <a href="#cite_ref-WDL_(2018a)_3-3">d</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMaimonides" class="citation web cs1">Maimonides. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.wdl.org/en/item/3964/">"Commentary on Tractate Avot with an Introduction (Shemona perakim)"</a>. <a href="/wiki/World_Digital_Library" title="World Digital Library">World Digital Library</a>. Retrieved 9 October 2018.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Commentary+on+Tractate+Avot+with+an+Introduction+%28Shemona+perakim%29&rft.pub=World+Digital+Library&rft.au=Maimonides&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wdl.org%2Fen%2Fitem%2F3964%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMishnah" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://people.ucalgary.ca/~elsegal/TalmudMap/Mishnah.html">"Mishnah"</a>. Retrieved 16 July 2022.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Mishnah&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fpeople.ucalgary.ca%2F~elsegal%2FTalmudMap%2FMishnah.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMishnah" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-EJ_(2007a)-5">^ <a href="#cite_ref-EJ_(2007a)_5-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-EJ_(2007a)_5-1">b</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSkolnikBerenbaum2007" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1">Skolnik, Fred; Berenbaum, Michael (2007). "Mishnah". Encyclopaedia Judaica. Vol. 14 (2 ed.). p. 319. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-02-865942-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-02-865942-8"><bdi>978-0-02-865942-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Mishnah&rft.btitle=Encyclopaedia+Judaica&rft.pages=319&rft.edition=2&rft.date=2007&rft.isbn=978-0-02-865942-8&rft.aulast=Skolnik&rft.aufirst=Fred&rft.au=Berenbaum%2C+Michael&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMishnah" class="Z3988">. <a href="/wiki/Heinrich_Graetz" title="Heinrich Graetz">Heinrich Graetz</a>, dissenting, places the Mishnah's compilation in 189 CE (see: H. Graetz, History of the Jews, vol. 6, Philadelphia 1898, p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015021930634;view=1up;seq=131">105</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221102104350/https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015021930634;view=1up;seq=131">Archived</a> 2022-11-02 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>), and which date follows that penned by Rabbi <a href="/wiki/Abraham_ben_David" title="Abraham ben David">Abraham ben David</a> in his "Sefer HaKabbalah le-Ravad", or what was then anno 500 of the <a href="/wiki/Seleucid_era" title="Seleucid era">Seleucid era</a>. </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFTrachtenberg2004" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Joshua_Trachtenberg" title="Joshua Trachtenberg">Trachtenberg, Joshua</a> (13 February 2004) [Originally published 1939]. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/jms/jms43.htm">"Glossary of Hebrew Terms"</a>. Jewish Magic and Superstition. Philadelphia: <a href="/wiki/University_of_Pennsylvania_Press" title="University of Pennsylvania Press">University of Pennsylvania Press</a> (published 2004). p. 333. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780812218626" title="Special:BookSources/9780812218626"><bdi>9780812218626</bdi></a>. Retrieved Mar 14, 2023. <q>Mishna—the "Oral Law" forming basis of the Talmud; edited c. 220 C.E. by R. 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Retrieved 2023-12-29.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=www.reformjudaism.org&rft.atitle=The+Mishnah+%7C+Reform+Judaism&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reformjudaism.org%2Flearning%2Fsacred-texts%2Fmishnah&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMishnah" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=20976&pgnum=24">"יסוד המשנה ועריכתה"</a> [Yesod Hamishna Va'arichatah] (in Hebrew). pp. 25–28. Retrieved 9 October 2018.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=%D7%99%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%93+%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%A9%D7%A0%D7%94+%D7%95%D7%A2%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%9B%D7%AA%D7%94&rft.pages=25-28&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hebrewbooks.org%2Fpdfpager.aspx%3Freq%3D20976%26pgnum%3D24&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMishnah" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSchermanZlotowitz2016" class="citation book cs1">Scherman, Nosson; Zlotowitz, Meir, eds. (2016). Shishah Sidre Mishnah = The Mishnah Elucidated: A phrase-by-phrase interpretive translation with basic commentary. Brooklyn, NY: Mesorah Publications. pp. 3–16. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1422614624" title="Special:BookSources/978-1422614624"><bdi>978-1422614624</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/872378784">872378784</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Shishah+Sidre+Mishnah+%3D+The+Mishnah+Elucidated%3A+A+phrase-by-phrase+interpretive+translation+with+basic+commentary.&rft.place=Brooklyn%2C+NY&rft.pages=3-16&rft.pub=Mesorah+Publications&rft.date=2016&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F872378784&rft.isbn=978-1422614624&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMishnah" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a> <a href="/wiki/Babylonian_Talmud" class="mw-redirect" title="Babylonian Talmud">Babylonian Talmud</a>, Temurah 14b; Gittin 60a. </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDr._Shayna_Sheinfeld" class="citation web cs1">Dr. Shayna Sheinfeld. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://thetorah.com/yelamdeinu-rabbeinu-the-exclusivity-of-the-oral-law/">"The Exclusivity of the Oral Law"</a>. Retrieved February 2, 2019.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=The+Exclusivity+of+the+Oral+Law&rft.au=Dr.+Shayna+Sheinfeld&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fthetorah.com%2Fyelamdeinu-rabbeinu-the-exclusivity-of-the-oral-law%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMishnah" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFStrack1945" class="citation book cs1">Strack, Hermann Leberecht (1945). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=rUPRMgEACAAJ">Introduction to the Talmud and Midrash</a>. Jewish Publication Society. pp. 11–12. Retrieved 9 October 2018. <q>[The Oral Law] was handed down by word of mouth during a long period. ... The first attempts to write down the traditional matter, there is reason to believe, date from the first half of the second post-Christian century.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Introduction+to+the+Talmud+and+Midrash&rft.pages=11-12&rft.pub=Jewish+Publication+Society&rft.date=1945&rft.aulast=Strack&rft.aufirst=Hermann+Leberecht&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DrUPRMgEACAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMishnah" class="Z3988"> Strack theorizes that the growth of a Christian canon (the New Testament) was a factor that influenced the Rabbis to record the oral law in writing. </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a> The theory that the destruction of the Temple and subsequent upheaval led to the committing of Oral Law into writing was first explained in the Epistle of <a href="/wiki/Sherira_Gaon" class="mw-redirect" title="Sherira Gaon">Sherira Gaon</a> and often repeated. See, for example, Grayzel, A History of the Jews, Penguin Books, 1984, p. 193. </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRabinowich1988" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Nosson_Dovid_Rabinowich" title="Nosson Dovid Rabinowich">Rabinowich, Nosson Dovid</a>, ed. (1988). The Iggeres of Rav Sherira Gaon. Jerusalem. pp. 28–29. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/20044324">20044324</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Iggeres+of+Rav+Sherira+Gaon&rft.place=Jerusalem&rft.pages=28-29&rft.date=1988&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F20044324&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMishnah" class="Z3988"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_book" title="Template:Cite book">cite book</a>}}</code>: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (<a href="/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_location_missing_publisher" title="Category:CS1 maint: location missing publisher">link</a>) (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141105022916/http://cojs.org/cojswiki/index.php/Iggeret_Rav_Sherira_Gaon_1-2:_The_First_Generation_of_the_Tannaim">html</a>) </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a> Though as shown below, there is some disagreement about whether the Mishnah was originally put in writing. </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSchloss2002" class="citation book cs1">Schloss, Chaim (2002). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=OV9jKGJzg3QC">2000 Years of Jewish History: From the Destruction of the Second Bais Hamikdash Until the Twentieth Century</a>. Philipp Feldheim. p. 68. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1583302149" title="Special:BookSources/978-1583302149"><bdi>978-1583302149</bdi></a>. Retrieved February 1, 2019. <q>Despite the many secular demands on his time, Rabbeinu Shmuel authored a number of books. The most famous is the Mevo HaTalmud, an introduction to the study of the Talmud which clarifies the language and structure which can be so confusing to beginners. In addition, the Mevo HaTalmud describes the development of the Mishnah and the Gemara and lists the Tannaim and Amoraim who were instrumental in preparing the Talmud.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=2000+Years+of+Jewish+History%3A+From+the+Destruction+of+the+Second+Bais+Hamikdash+Until+the+Twentieth+Century&rft.pages=68&rft.pub=Philipp+Feldheim&rft.date=2002&rft.isbn=978-1583302149&rft.aulast=Schloss&rft.aufirst=Chaim&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DOV9jKGJzg3QC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMishnah" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLex_Robeberg" class="citation web cs1">Lex Robeberg. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/why-the-mishnah-is-the-best-jewish-book-youve-never-read/">"Why The Mishnah Is the Best Jewish Book You've Never Read"</a>. myjewishlearning.com. Retrieved February 2, 2019.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Why+The+Mishnah+Is+the+Best+Jewish+Book+You%27ve+Never+Read&rft.pub=myjewishlearning.com&rft.au=Lex+Robeberg&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.myjewishlearning.com%2Farticle%2Fwhy-the-mishnah-is-the-best-jewish-book-youve-never-read%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMishnah" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFOuthwaite" class="citation web cs1">Outhwaite, Ben. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-00470-00001/1">"Mishnah"</a>. Cambridge Digital Library. Retrieved 8 October 2018.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Mishnah&rft.pub=Cambridge+Digital+Library&rft.aulast=Outhwaite&rft.aufirst=Ben&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fcudl.lib.cam.ac.uk%2Fview%2FMS-ADD-00470-00001%2F1&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMishnah" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a> The plural term (singular tanna) for the <a href="/wiki/Rabbi" title="Rabbi">Rabbinic</a> sages whose views are recorded in the Mishnah; from the Aramaic root tanna (תנא) equivalent for the Hebrew root shanah (שנה), as in Mishnah. </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a> <a href="/wiki/Abraham_ben_David" title="Abraham ben David">Abraham ben David</a> calculated the date 189 CE. Seder Ha-Kabbalah Leharavad, Jerusalem 1971, p.16 (Hebrew) </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a> According to the Epistle (Iggeret) of <a href="/wiki/Sherira_Gaon" class="mw-redirect" title="Sherira Gaon">Sherira Gaon</a>. </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a> This theory was held by David Zvi Hoffman, and is repeated in the introduction to <a href="/wiki/Herbert_Danby" title="Herbert Danby">Herbert Danby</a>'s Mishnah translation. </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFYeivin1960" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Yeivin, Israel (1960). Cantillation of the Oral Law (in Hebrew). Leshonenu 24. pp. 47–231.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Cantillation+of+the+Oral+Law&rft.pages=47-231&rft.pub=Leshonenu+24&rft.date=1960&rft.aulast=Yeivin&rft.aufirst=Israel&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMishnah" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a> <a href="/wiki/Shelomo_Morag" class="mw-redirect" title="Shelomo Morag">Shelomo Morag</a>, The Samaritan and Yemenite Tradition of Hebrew (published in: The Traditions of Hebrew and Aramaic of the Jews of Yemen; ed. Yosef Tobi), Tel Aviv 2001, p. 183 (note 12) </li> <li id="cite_note-EJ327-27">^ <a href="#cite_ref-EJ327_27-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-EJ327_27-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-EJ327_27-2">c</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSkolnikBerenbaum2007" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1">Skolnik, Fred; Berenbaum, Michael (2007). "The Traditional Interpretation of the Mishnah". Encyclopaedia Judaica. Vol. 14 (2 ed.). p. 327. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-02-865942-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-02-865942-8"><bdi>978-0-02-865942-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=The+Traditional+Interpretation+of+the+Mishnah&rft.btitle=Encyclopaedia+Judaica&rft.pages=327&rft.edition=2&rft.date=2007&rft.isbn=978-0-02-865942-8&rft.aulast=Skolnik&rft.aufirst=Fred&rft.au=Berenbaum%2C+Michael&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMishnah" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a> See for example § "Both Broad and Deep" under <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/gemara-the-essence-of-the-talmud/">Gemara: The Essence of the Talmud</a>, myjewishlearning.com </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><a href="#cite_ref-29">^</a> See summary of per-tractate coverage: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBirnbaum1975" class="citation book cs1">Birnbaum, Philip (1975). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/bookofjewishconc00birn/page/373">"Tractates"</a>. A Book of Jewish Concepts. New York, NY: Hebrew Publishing Company. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/bookofjewishconc00birn/page/373">373-374</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/088482876X" title="Special:BookSources/088482876X"><bdi>088482876X</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Tractates&rft.btitle=A+Book+of+Jewish+Concepts&rft.place=New+York%2C+NY&rft.pages=373-374&rft.pub=Hebrew+Publishing+Company&rft.date=1975&rft.isbn=088482876X&rft.aulast=Birnbaum&rft.aufirst=Philip&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fbookofjewishconc00birn%2Fpage%2F373&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMishnah" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-30"><a href="#cite_ref-30">^</a> See this discussion on <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://hsc.one/post/moses-commentary1/">Moses Maimonides commentary</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-marvin-31">^ <a href="#cite_ref-marvin_31-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-marvin_31-1">b</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://trmarvin.substack.com/p/coffee-with-the-bartenura">Coffee with the Bartenura</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-32"><a href="#cite_ref-32">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.daat.ac.il/daat/mahshevt/hakdama/tohen-m-2.htm">"הקדמה לפירוש המשנה"</a> [Introduction to the Mishnah Commentary]. Daat.ac.il (in Hebrew). Retrieved 9 October 2018.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Daat.ac.il&rft.atitle=%D7%94%D7%A7%D7%93%D7%9E%D7%94+%D7%9C%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%A9+%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%A9%D7%A0%D7%94&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.daat.ac.il%2Fdaat%2Fmahshevt%2Fhakdama%2Ftohen-m-2.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMishnah" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-33"><a href="#cite_ref-33">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.daat.ac.il/daat/mahshevt/rambam/hakdamat-2.htm">"הקדמת רמב"ם לפרק "חלק""</a> [Rambam's introduction to the chapter "Chelek"]. Daat.ac.il (in Hebrew). Retrieved 9 October 2018.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Daat.ac.il&rft.atitle=%D7%94%D7%A7%D7%93%D7%9E%D7%AA+%D7%A8%D7%9E%D7%91%22%D7%9D+%D7%9C%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%A7+%22%D7%97%D7%9C%D7%A7%22&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.daat.ac.il%2Fdaat%2Fmahshevt%2Frambam%2Fhakdamat-2.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMishnah" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-34"><a href="#cite_ref-34">^</a> Mordechai Meir, “Shisha Sidrei Ha-Mishna Menukadim U-mefurashim al Yedei Chaim Nachman Bialik: Kavim Le-mifalo Ha-nishkach shel Bialik,” Netuim 16 (5770), pp.191-208, available at: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.herzog.ac.il/vtc/tvunot/netuim16_meir.pdf">http://www.herzog.ac.il/vtc/tvunot/netuim16_meir.pdf</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220627003600/http://www.herzog.ac.il/vtc/tvunot/netuim16_meir.pdf">Archived</a> 2022-06-27 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-35"><a href="#cite_ref-35">^</a> Hanoch Albeck, 'Introduction', Shisha Sidre Mishnah (Jerusalem: Mossad Bialik,)1:9. </li> <li id="cite_note-36"><a href="#cite_ref-36">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMargolis2009" class="citation journal cs1">Margolis, Rebecca (2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/ttr/2009-v22-n2-ttr3944/044829ar.pdf">"Translating Jewish Poland into Canadian Yiddish: Symcha Petrushka's Mishnayes"</a> (PDF). <a href="/wiki/TTR:_traduction,_terminologie,_r%C3%A9daction" class="mw-redirect" title="TTR: traduction, terminologie, rédaction">TTR: traduction, terminologie, rédaction</a>. 22 (2): 183–209. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.7202%2F044829ar">10.7202/044829ar</a>. Retrieved 9 October 2018.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=TTR%3A+traduction%2C+terminologie%2C+r%C3%A9daction&rft.atitle=Translating+Jewish+Poland+into+Canadian+Yiddish%3A+Symcha+Petrushka%27s+Mishnayes&rft.volume=22&rft.issue=2&rft.pages=183-209&rft.date=2009&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.7202%2F044829ar&rft.aulast=Margolis&rft.aufirst=Rebecca&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.erudit.org%2Ffr%2Frevues%2Fttr%2F2009-v22-n2-ttr3944%2F044829ar.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMishnah" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-37"><a href="#cite_ref-37">^</a> See e.g. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.sefaria.org/Mishnat_Eretz_Yisrael_on_Mishnah_Berakhot?tab=contents">Mishnat Eretz Yisrael on Berakhot</a> </li> </ol></div></div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(9)"><h2 id="References">References</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Mishnah&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: References" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-9 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-9"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="English_translations">English translations</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Mishnah&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: English translations" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <ul><li>Shaye J. D. Cohen, Robert Goldenberg, Hayim Lapin (eds.), The Oxford Annotated Mishnah: A New Translation of the Mishnah With Introductions and Notes, New York, Oxford University Press, 2022.</li> <li>Philip Blackman. Mishnayoth. The Judaica Press, Ltd., reprinted 2000 (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-910818-00-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-910818-00-1">978-0-910818-00-1</a>). Online <a href="/wiki/PDF" title="PDF">PDF</a> at <a href="/wiki/HebrewBooks" class="mw-redirect" title="HebrewBooks">HebrewBooks</a>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://hebrewbooks.org/9675">Zeraim</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://hebrewbooks.org/9670">Moed</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://hebrewbooks.org/9674">Nashim</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://hebrewbooks.org/9671">Nezikin</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://hebrewbooks.org/9672">Kodashim</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://hebrewbooks.org/9673">Tehorot</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herbert_Danby" title="Herbert Danby">Herbert Danby</a>. The Mishnah. Oxford, 1933 (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-19-815402-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-19-815402-X">0-19-815402-X</a>).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jacob_Neusner" title="Jacob Neusner">Jacob Neusner</a>. The Mishnah: A New Translation. New Haven, reprint 1991 (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-300-05022-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-300-05022-4">0-300-05022-4</a>).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isidore_Epstein" title="Isidore Epstein">Isidore Epstein</a> (ed.). <a href="/wiki/Soncino_Press#Soncino_Talmud" title="Soncino Press">Soncino Talmud</a>. London, 1935-1952. Includes Mishnah-translations for those tractates without Gemara.</li> <li>Various editors. The Mishnah, a new translation with commentary Yad Avraham. New York: <a href="/wiki/Mesorah_Publications,_Ltd." class="mw-redirect" title="Mesorah Publications, Ltd.">Mesorah Publications</a>, since the 1990s. (<a href="/wiki/ArtScroll" title="ArtScroll">ArtScroll</a> mentioned <a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Commentaries">above</a>)</li> <li>Yoseph Milstein, et al. The Mishnah, a new integrated translation and commentary based on Rabbeinu Ovadiah M'Bartenurah, Machon Yisrael Trust, available online at <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221005215235/https://www.emishnah.com/">eMishnah.com</a> (archived).</li> <li>Various editors. <a href="/wiki/Sefaria" title="Sefaria">Sefaria</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.sefaria.org.il/texts/Mishnah">full text of the Mishnah with various open-source English translations</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Historical_study">Historical study</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Mishnah&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Historical study" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <ul><li>Shalom Carmy (Ed.) Modern Scholarship in the Study of Torah: Contributions and Limitations Jason Aronson, Inc.</li> <li>Shaye J.D. Cohen, "Patriarchs and Scholarchs", Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research 48 (1981), pp. 57–87</li> <li>Steven D. Fraade, "The Early Rabbinic Sage," in The Sage in Israel and the Ancient Near East, ed. John G. Gammie and Leo G. Perdue (Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 1990), pp. 417–23</li> <li>Robert Goldenberg The Sabbath-Law of Rabbi Meir (Missoula, Montana: Scholars Press, 1978)</li> <li>John W McGinley 'The Written' as the Vocation of Conceiving Jewishly <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-595-40488-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-595-40488-X">0-595-40488-X</a></li> <li>Jacob Neusner Making the Classics in Judaism (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1989), pp. 1–13 and 19–44</li> <li>Jacob Neusner Judaism: The Evidence of the Mishnah (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981), pp. 14–22.</li> <li>Gary Porton, The Traditions of Rabbi Ishmael (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1982), vol. 4, pp. 212–25</li> <li>Dov Zlotnick, The Iron Pillar Mishnah (Jerusalem: Bialik Institute, 1988), pp. 8–9</li> <li>Reuvain Margolies, Yesod Ha-Mishnah V'Arichatah (Heb.)</li> <li>David Tzvi Hoffman, Mishnah Rishonah U'flugta D'tanna'e (Heb)</li> <li>Hanokh Yalon, Mavo le-nikud ha-Mishnah [Introduction to the vocalization of the Mishnah] (Jerusalem 1964) (Heb)</li> <li>Robert Brody, Mishna and Tosefta Studies (Jerusalem 2014)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Recitation">Recitation</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Mishnah&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Recitation" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <ul><li>Frank Alvarez-Pereyre, La Transmission Orale de la Mishna. Une methode d'analyse appliquee a la tradition d'Alep: Jerusalem 1990</li></ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(10)"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Mishnah&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: External links" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-10 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-10"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Wikimedia_projects">Wikimedia projects</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Mishnah&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Wikimedia projects" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/File:Commons-logo.svg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/12px-Commons-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="16" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="1376"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 12px;height: 16px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/12px-Commons-logo.svg.png" data-alt="" data-width="12" data-height="16" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/18px-Commons-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/24px-Commons-logo.svg.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a> Media related to <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Mishnah" class="extiw" title="commons:Category:Mishnah">Mishnah</a> at Wikimedia Commons</li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Wikisource-logo.svg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/15px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="16" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="410" data-file-height="430"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 15px;height: 16px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/15px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png" data-alt="" data-width="15" data-height="16" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/23px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/30px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a> Works related to <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translation:Mishnah" class="extiw" title="wikisource:Translation:Mishnah">Mishnah</a> at Wikisource</li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Wikisource-logo.svg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="13" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="410" data-file-height="430"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 12px;height: 13px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png" data-width="12" data-height="13" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/18px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/24px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a> Hebrew <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a> has original text related to this article: <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/he:%D7%9E%D7%A9%D7%A0%D7%94" class="extiw" title="s:he:משנה">משנה</a></li> <li>Wikisource's Open Mishna Project is developing Mishnah texts, commentaries, and translations. The project is currently available in four languages: <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/he:%D7%9E%D7%A9%D7%A0%D7%94" class="extiw" title="s:he:משנה">Hebrew</a> (the largest collection), <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translation:Mishnah" class="extiw" title="s:Translation:Mishnah">English</a>, <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/fr:Mishna" class="extiw" title="s:fr:Mishna">French</a> and <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/pt:Mishn%C3%A1" class="extiw" title="s:pt:Mishná">Portuguese</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Digitised_manuscripts">Digitised manuscripts</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Mishnah&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Digitised manuscripts" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-00470-00001/1">Complete Mishnah manuscript (15th century CE), Cambridge Digital Library</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_electronic_texts">Other electronic texts</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Mishnah&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Other electronic texts" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.mishnah.org/">Mishnah.org</a> Learn the entire Mishnah online in Hebrew with English translation, and create Smart Mishnah Charts for Shloshim and Yahrzeit learning.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.shloshim.org/">Learn Mishna in Someone's Memory</a> – Create a Shloshim Mishnah list online.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.mechon-mamre.org/b/h/h0.htm">Mechon Mamre</a> (Hebrew) – Hebrew text of the Mishnah according to Maimonides' version (based on the manuscript of his Mishnah commentary in his own handwriting).</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://chaver.com/Mishnah/TheMishnah.htm">The Structured Mishnah</a> – Hebrew text according to the Albeck edition (without vowels) with special formatting.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061212182252/http://jnul.huji.ac.il/dl/talmud/">Online Treasury of Talmudic Manuscripts, Jewish National and University Library</a> in Hebrew.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://kaufmann.mtak.hu/en/ms50/ms50-coll1.htm">Codex Kaufmann of the Mishnah</a> – High resolution images of this important textual witness.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.emishnah.com/">eMishnah</a> – English Translation & Commentary.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.sefaria.org/texts/Mishnah/">Mishnah (Hebrew & English)</a> – English text as translated in The William Davidson edition of the Koren Noé Talmud, with commentary by Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Mishnah_study_and_the_daily_Mishnah">Mishnah study and the daily Mishnah</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Mishnah&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Mishnah study and the daily Mishnah" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAhrend2004" class="citation journal cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Ahrend, Aaron (2004). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://jewish-faculty.biu.ac.il/files/jewish-faculty/shared/JSIJ3/ahrend.pdf">"לימוד משנה וחברות משנה בעת החדשה"</a> [Mishna Study and Study Groups in Modern Times] (PDF). JSIJ – Jewish Studies, an Internet Journal (in Hebrew). 3.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=JSIJ+%E2%80%93+Jewish+Studies%2C+an+Internet+Journal&rft.atitle=%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%93+%D7%9E%D7%A9%D7%A0%D7%94+%D7%95%D7%97%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%AA+%D7%9E%D7%A9%D7%A0%D7%94+%D7%91%D7%A2%D7%AA+%D7%94%D7%97%D7%93%D7%A9%D7%94&rft.volume=3&rft.date=2004&rft.aulast=Ahrend&rft.aufirst=Aaron&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fjewish-faculty.biu.ac.il%2Ffiles%2Fjewish-faculty%2Fshared%2FJSIJ3%2Fahrend.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMishnah" class="Z3988"></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111010104544/http://www.uscj.org/LearningandTeaching/DailyStudyMaterials/MishnahYomit/default.aspx">Mishna Yomit</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> (archived 10 October 2011) – One Mishnah per day. (Note: this study-cycle follows a different schedule than the regular one; contains extensive archives in English).</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.mishnahyomit.com/">Mishnah Yomit</a> – MishnahYomit.com hosts a weekly publication complementing the learning of people studying the regular program. It include articles, review questions and learning aids.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20030625151147/http://www.moreshet.net/oldsite/mishna/index.htm">Kehati Mishna</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> (archived June 25, 2003) – A program of two Mishnayot per day. Currently inactive, but archives contain the complete text of Kehati in English for Moed, Nashim, Nezikin, and about half of Kodashim.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180829023810/http://www.dafyomireview.com/index.php?seriesid=4">Daf Yomi Review</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> (archived 29 August 2018) – Custom learning and review programs for Mishnah.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.mishnasdura.org.il/">MishnaSdura</a> – Popular edition of Hebrew text (with vowels), used in many schools, formatted to encourage review and aid memory. Tables summarizing content. Mishna songs and recordings. Wiki article in Hebrew <a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%A9%D7%A0%D7%94_%D7%A1%D7%93%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%94_(%D7%94%D7%95%D7%A6%D7%90%D7%AA_%D7%A1%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%9D)" class="extiw" title="he:משנה סדורה (הוצאת ספרים)">Mishna Sdura</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://mishna.org.il">Perek HaYomi</a> (Hebrew) – Host to Shiurim, and learning and review according to the Perek HaYomi in Mishna instituted by the Maharal.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.2mishnasaday.com">2 Mishnas A Day</a> – A program of learning two mishnayos every day. Site include Hebrew and English together with a link for audio for each day.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Audio_lectures">Audio lectures</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Mishnah&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Audio lectures" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080501085431/http://www.masterdaf.com/">Rav Avraham Kosman – Slabodka</a> on the Mishnah and Talmud in English – Produced in Israel</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.shemayisrael.com/mishna/">Mishna Audio</a> – given by Rabbi Chaim Brown in English</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.dafyomi.org/mishnayos.php">Rav Grossman on the Mishna</a> in English produced in Los Angeles</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" 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class="interlanguage-link-target">Afrikaans</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B4%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%87" title="مشناه – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="مشناه" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">العربية</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B6%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B9%E0%A7%8D" title="মিশনাহ্ – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="মিশনাহ্" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target">বাংলা</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%BD%D0%B0" title="Мишна – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Мишна" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Български</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mishnah" title="Mishnah – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Mishnah" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target">Brezhoneg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixn%C3%A0" title="Mixnà – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Mixnà" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Català</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mi%C5%A1na" title="Mišna – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Mišna" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mishnah" title="Mishnah – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Mishnah" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target">Cymraeg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mishna" title="Mishna – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Mishna" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dansk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mischna" title="Mischna – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Mischna" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mishn%C3%A1" title="Mishná – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Mishná" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mi%C5%9Dno" title="Miŝno – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Miŝno" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target">Esperanto</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mishna" title="Mishna – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Mishna" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target">Euskara</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%B4%D9%86%D8%A7" title="میشنا – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="میشنا" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mishna" title="Mishna – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Mishna" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mishnah" title="Mishnah – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Mishnah" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Frysk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Mishnah" title="An Mishnah – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="An Mishnah" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Gaeilge</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%AF%B8%EC%8A%88%EB%82%98" title="미슈나 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="미슈나" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target">한국어</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mishnah" title="Mishnah – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Mishnah" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Indonesia</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ia mw-list-item"><a href="https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mishnah" title="Mishnah – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" data-title="Mishnah" data-language-autonym="Interlingua" data-language-local-name="Interlingua" class="interlanguage-link-target">Interlingua</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mishnah" title="Mishnah – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Mishnah" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%A9%D7%A0%D7%94" title="משנה – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="משנה" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target">עברית</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lad mw-list-item"><a href="https://lad.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mishna" title="Mishna – Ladino" lang="lad" hreflang="lad" data-title="Mishna" data-language-autonym="Ladino" data-language-local-name="Ladino" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ladino</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misna" title="Misna – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Misna" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mi%C5%A1na" title="Mišna – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Mišna" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latviešu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misna" title="Misna – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Misna" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Magyar</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mishnah" title="Mishnah – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="Mishnah" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target">Malagasy</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AE%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%B7%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A8" title="മിഷ്ന – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="മിഷ്ന" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target">മലയാളം</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B4%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%87" title="الميشناه – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="الميشناه" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">مصرى</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masnah" title="Masnah – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Masnah" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Melayu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misjna" title="Misjna – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Misjna" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nederlands</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9F%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BC" title="ミシュナー – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ミシュナー" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">日本語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misjn%C3%A1" title="Misjná – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Misjná" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk bokmål</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misjn%C3%A1" title="Misjná – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Misjná" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk nynorsk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B4%D9%86%D8%A7%DB%81" title="مشناہ – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="مشناہ" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target">پنجابی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ps mw-list-item"><a href="https://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B4%D9%86%D8%A7" title="مشنا – Pashto" lang="ps" hreflang="ps" data-title="مشنا" data-language-autonym="پښتو" data-language-local-name="Pashto" class="interlanguage-link-target">پښتو</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl badge-Q17437798 badge-goodarticle mw-list-item" title="good article badge"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miszna" title="Miszna – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Miszna" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Polski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mishn%C3%A1" title="Mishná – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Mishná" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Português</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mi%C8%99na" title="Mișna – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Mișna" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Română</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%BD%D0%B0" title="Мишна – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Мишна" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Русский</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mi%C5%A1na" title="Mišna – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Mišna" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target">Slovenčina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%BD%D0%B0" title="Мишна – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Мишна" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Српски / srpski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mi%C5%A1na" title="Mišna – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Mišna" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mi%C5%A1na" title="Mišna – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Mišna" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Suomi</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mishna" title="Mishna – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Mishna" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Svenska</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mi%C5%9Fnah" title="Mişnah – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Mişnah" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Türkçe</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D1%96%D1%88%D0%BD%D0%B0" title="Мішна – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Мішна" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Українська</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ur mw-list-item"><a href="https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B4%D9%86%D8%A7%DB%81" title="مشناہ – Urdu" lang="ur" hreflang="ur" data-title="مشناہ" data-language-autonym="اردو" data-language-local-name="Urdu" class="interlanguage-link-target">اردو</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-yi mw-list-item"><a href="https://yi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%A9%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%95%D7%AA" title="משניות – Yiddish" lang="yi" hreflang="yi" data-title="משניות" data-language-autonym="ייִדיש" data-language-local-name="Yiddish" class="interlanguage-link-target">ייִדיש</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%B1%B3%E6%9B%B8%E6%8B%BF" title="米書拿 – Chinese" lang="zh" hreflang="zh" data-title="米書拿" data-language-autonym="中文" data-language-local-name="Chinese" class="interlanguage-link-target">中文</a></li></ul> </section> </div> <div class="minerva-footer-logo"><img src="/static/images/mobile/copyright/wikipedia-wordmark-en.svg" alt="Wikipedia" width="120" height="18" style="width: 7.5em; height: 1.125em;"/> </div> <ul id="footer-info" class="footer-info hlist hlist-separated"> <li id="footer-info-lastmod"> This page was last edited on 21 October 2024, at 21:22 (UTC).</li> <li id="footer-info-copyright">Content is available under <a class="external" rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en">CC BY-SA 4.0</a> unless otherwise noted.</li> </ul> <ul id="footer-places" class="footer-places hlist hlist-separated"> <li id="footer-places-privacy"><a 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