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mishna(h) collection of precepts forming the basis of the Talmud. XVII. — post-biblical Heb.
mišnāh repetition, instruction, f.
šānah repeat, teach or learn (oral tradition).
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Aging Mishna traced to Holocaust victim
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 11/23/2005; ; 496 words
; ...Jerusalem Post 11-23-2005 Headline: Aging Mishna traced to Holocaust victim Byline: ETGAR...November 23, 2005 -- The aging and tattered Mishna was lying amid a pile in a Tel Aviv synagogue...distributed at synagogues nationwide. The Mishna in question came from Seder Nezikin...
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First Arab boy competes in Mishna quiz in Tiberias
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 5/9/2001; ; 479 words
; ...Headline: First Arab boy competes in Mishna quiz in Tiberias Byline: ALLYN FISHER...Fried said. Fried also noted that the Mishna, which is part of the Talmud and interprets...encourage all pupils to learn about the Mishna, Fried said. Keywords: Arab. Amar...
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Histoire de la langue Hebraique: Des origines a l'epoque de la Mishna. .(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 7/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Histoire de la Ian gue Hebraique: Des origines a l'epoque de la Mishna. By MIREILLE HADAS-LABEL, Collection de la Revue des Etudes...IV, on Mishnaic Hebrew, begins with an introduction to the Mishna and its history, followed by a thorough review of theories...
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Tosefta Bava Kamma: A Structural and Analytic Commentary with a Mishna-Tosefta Synopsis.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 7/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; Tosefta Bava Kamma: A Structural and Analytic Commentary with a Mishna-Tosefta Synopsis. By ABRAHAM GOLDBERG, Jerusalem: THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY MAGNES PRESS, 2001. Pp. ix + 297. [Hebrew...
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Histoire de la langue hebraique des origines a l'epoque de la mishna
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 10/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; MIREILLE HADAS-LEBEL, Histoire de la langue hebraique des origines al'epoque de la mishna (Collection de la REJ 21; Leuven/Paris: Peeters, 1995). Pp. 199. Paper 900 FB. This is the fourth edition of a lovely...
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Letters Speak Volumes In Widely Varied Works: The World, the Mishna Says, Was Created With Ten Utterings - Writ Small or Large, the Hebrew Alphabet Inspires Artists Across the Centuries
Newspaper article from: Forward; 2/8/2002; ; 700+ words
; Oppenheimer, Mark Forward 02-08-2002 Judaism is uniquely attuned to the power of letters. Not only can a golem supposedly be created or destroyed by rearranging them, it is also a sin for a Jew to destroy a piece of paper on which the divine name is written. But does this emphasis on the written
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Rabbinic interpretation of Scripture in the Mishnah.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...linguistics, with a classic text such as the Mishna being the basis for demonstration. Indeed...takes for granted, however, that the Mishna has a consistent approach to Scripture...strictly "hermeneutics." Moreover, the Mishna is far from being a hermeneutic work...
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Trying to breach the color line in 1970s-'80s Seattle.(YourTuesday)
Newspaper article from: The Seattle Times (Seattle, WA); 6/23/2009; 700+ words
; ...to The Seattle Times "I'm Down" by Mishna Wolff St. Martin's Press, 273 pp...Seattle conversations, are big parts of why Mishna Wolff's memoir "I'm Down" is required...women, all of whom are black except for Mishna's mom. Mishna's younger sister Anora...
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Mishnah and Tosefta: A Synoptic Comparison of the Tractates Berakhaot and Shebiit.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...conclusions as that of the relationship between Mishna and Tosefta. It almost seems a natural...representative, if not complete, synopsis of Mishna and Tosefta. It is surprising that scholars...manuscripts, that of Kaufman for the Mishna and that of Vienna for the Tosefta. Most...
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A mini-yeshiva in a box
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 2/17/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Page: 34 Friday, February 17, 2006 -- Master Mishna: Technology for Mishna Study and Review, a set of six CD-ROMs, sold...released a series covering the entire text of the Mishna, narrated in Hebrew with a sentence-by-sentence...
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Mishna
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Mishna , in Judaism, codified collection of Oral Law&mdash...Together with the Gemara, or Amoraic commentary on the Mishna, it comprises the Talmud . Next to the Scriptures the Mishna is the basic textbook of Jewish life and thought, and...
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mishna(h)
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
mishna(h) collection of precepts forming the basis of the Talmud. XVII. — post-biblical Heb. mišnāh repetition, instruction, f. šānah repeat, teach or learn (oral tradition).
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The Mishna
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
The Mishna A compilation of Jewish oral traditions containing the religious legal decisions relating to Old Testament laws, gathered together...
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Abba Arika
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Judah I. Rabbi Judah had compiled the Mishna, a work containing the Oral Law, or...lectures and discussions on Jewish law. The Mishna was the basic text taught at Sura, where...discussed, and expounded. The debates on the Mishna in the Babylonian academies over the centuries...
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Talmud
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Orthodox Jews everywhere. Its two divisions are the Mishna or text of the Oral Law (in Hebrew) and the Gemara (in Aramaic), a commentary on the Mishna, which it supplements. The Mishna is divided into six Orders (Sedarim) and comprises...
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