mishnah in A Sentence

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    Who actually wrote the Mishnah, and why?

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    The Mishnah confirms this attitude.

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    Jacob Neusner comments:“ The Mishnah provided Israel's constitution.

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    Maimonides defined these principles in his Commentary on the Mishnah, Sanhedrin 10: 1.

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    The Mishnah stood on its own, not seeking justification on the basis of Biblical references.

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    Although created as a work complete in itself, the Mishnah had now been dissected.

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    The Mishnah classifies writing as“ work,” but it defines“ writing” as leaving a lasting mark.

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    Mishnah By then everyone would be sure to see their piety and marvel at it!

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    The Amoraim of Palestine and Babylonia had set out to study, or analyze, the Mishnah.

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    The Mishnah and the Gemara are together called the Talmud, of which there are two types.

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    The Mishnah says:“ Inside the Temple Mount was a latticed railing( the Soreg), ten hand- breadths high.”.

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    These laws are recorded in the Mishnah, which devotes ten chapters to the details of the mikveh.”.

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    In A History of Judaism, Daniel Jeremy Silver calls the Mishnah“ the constitutive text of rabbinic Judaism.”.

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    And prophets handed it on to the men of the great assembly.”​ - Avot 1: 1, the Mishnah.

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    In fact, he further comments:“ The Mishnah replaced the Bible as the core curriculum of continuing[ Jewish] education.”.

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    The formulation of the Mishnah as a separate text paved the way for the complete independence of the Babylonian academies.

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    Neusner observes that in this way the rabbis“ shifted the orbit of the Mishnah from one path to another.”.

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    But in the Mishnah we find a list of 39 activities forbidden by the rabbis on the Sabbath.- Shabbat 7: 2.

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    Rather than being the final word on Judaism, then, the Mishnah became a new foundation for religious discussion and debate.

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    The rabbis of the Talmud set out to prove that the Mishnah was from the same source as the Hebrew Scriptures.

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    According to the Mishnah, anyone who utters God's name will have“ no portion in the world to come.”​ - Sanhedrin 10: 1.

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    According to Maimonides, the Mishnah refers to a leather table covering(skortia), probably designed to protect the table from the elements(Mishnah Kelim 16:4).

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    Yevamot 16: 7, the Mishnah Additionally, to protect a divorcée, Gamaliel introduced a number of restrictions into the issue of a letter of divorce.

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    Avot 1: 1 The Mishnah claims to deal with information handed down to Moses at Mount Sinai- an unwritten part of God's Law to Israel.

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    Referring to Leviticus 5: 1, The Mishnah explains:“[ The law about]‘ an oath of testimony' applies to men but not to women.”​ - Shebuoth 4:.

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    For more information on the development and content of the Mishnah, see the article“ The Mishnah and God's Law to Moses” in The Watchtower of November 15, 1997.

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    One opinion quoted in the Mishnah stated:“ If any man gives his daughter a knowledge of the Law it is as though he taught her lechery.”​ - Sotah 3: 4.

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    In the third century C. E., the Mishnah declared that“ he who pronounces the divine Name as it is spelled out” has“ no portion in the world to come.”- Sanhedrin 10: 1.

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    That they lost this battle is demonstrated by the Mishnah itself:“ Greater stringency applies to[ the observance of] the words of the Scribes than to[ the observance of] the words of the[ written] Law.”.

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    If they find him alive they may clear it away still more from above him; but if[ he is] dead, they leave him.”​ - Tractate Yoma 8: 7, The Mishnah, translated by Herbert Danby.

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