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Baraita

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions | 1997 | | © The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions 1997, originally published by Oxford University Press 1997. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Baraita (Aram., for Heb., hizonah, ‘outside’). Every Jewish tradition of the tannaim which is found outside Judah ha-Nasi's Mishnah. The beraitot (pl.) were used to supplement mishnaic teaching or to solve a new problem which had arisen.

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