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The Gemara frequently refers to these tannaitic statements in order to compare them to those contained in the Mishnah and to support or refute the propositions of Amoraim.
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Gemara and frequently
Abba has been found as a personal name in a 1st-century burial at Giv ' at ja-Mivtar, and Abba also appears as a personal name frequently in the Gemara section of the Talmud, dating from AD 200 – 400.
Gemara and refers
(" Bavli ") By convention, a reference to the " Gemara " or " Talmud ," without further qualification, refers to the Babylonian version.
In a narrower sense, the word Gemara refers to the mastery and transmission of existing tradition, as opposed to sevara, which means the deriving of new results by logic.
Halivni terms the anonymous texts of the Talmud as having been said by Stammaim ( based on the phrase " stama d ' talmuda " which refers to the anonymous material in the Gemara ), placing them after the period of the Amoraim, but before the Geonic period.
Gemara and these
According to the same tradition, these 60 years are said to have been so symmetrically apportioned that each treatise required six months for the study of its Mishnah and the redaction of the traditional expositions of the same ( Gemara ), thus aggregating 30 years for the 60 treatises.
Nevertheless, these works are the basic " proof-text " cross-referenced by the Talmudic sages in their analysis and interpretation of the Mishna ; See Gemara.
Collections of opinions from these discussions, known as Gemara were eventually edited together and placed with the Mishnah itself, in both Israel ( around 350 AD – the Jerusalem Talmud ) and Babylon ( around 550 AD, with further editing in the two centuries that followed – the Babylonian Talmud ).
This is probably because these two tractates aren't concerned with individual laws and therefore don't lend themselves to a Gemara style analysis.
Gemara and tannaitic
The baraitot cited in the Gemara are often quotations from the Tosefta ( a tannaitic compendium of halakha parallel to the Mishnah ) and the Halakhic Midrashim ( specifically Mekhilta, Sifra and Sifre ).
Gemara and statements
Some modern scholars use the term Stammaim ( from the Hebrew Stam, meaning " closed ", " vague " or " unattributed ") for the authors of unattributed statements in the Gemara.
Gemara and order
Curious as is the order of subjects followed in this treatise, in which several mishnaic sources have been combined, the Tosefta follows it, adding comments that form the basis of the Gemara in both Talmuds.
Both the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmud have a Gemara on each of the tractates in the order.
The Gemara asks why this order occurs and answers that the author of this Mishna was a Tanna living in Israel, where the ground is hard.
Gemara and compare
In so doing, the Gemara will highlight semantic disagreements between Tannaim and Amoraim ( often ascribing a view to an earlier authority as to how he may have answered a question ), and compare the Mishnaic views with passages from the Baraita.
Gemara and them
The latter compiled and edited the Mishnah ; Rav Ashi made it the labor of his life to collect after critical scrutiny, under the name of Gemara, those explanations of the Mishnah that had been handed down in the Babylonian academies since the days of Rab, together with all the discussions connected with them, and all the halakhic and haggadic material treated in the schools.
Gemara and those
For just as the Gemara is a critical and analytical commentary on the Mishnah, so are the Tosafot critical and analytical glosses on those two parts of the Talmud.
There are two recensions of the Gemara, one compiled by the scholars of the Land of Israel and the other by those of Babylonia ( primarily in the academies of Sura and Pumbedita, completed c. 500 CE ).
Gemara and contained
In addition to the Mishnah and Gemara, Bomberg's edition contained the commentaries of Rashi and Tosafot.
Gemara and Mishnah
The Talmud was a compilation of both the Mishnah and the Gemara, rabbinic commentaries redacted over the next three centuries.
Rabbinic commentaries on the Mishnah over the next three centuries were redacted as the Gemara, which, coupled with the Mishnah, comprise the Talmud.
Unlike the Gemara, which is written primarily in Aramaic, the majority of the Mishnah is written in Hebrew.
A great many more lessons, lectures and traditions only alluded to in the few hundred pages of Mishnah, became the thousands of pages now called the Gemara.
The Mishnah and Gemara together are called the Talmud.
The Talmud has two components: the Mishnah ( Hebrew: משנה, c. 200 CE ), the first written compendium of Judaism's Oral Law, and the Gemara ( c. 500 CE ), an elucidation of the Mishnah and related Tannaitic writings that often ventures onto other subjects and expounds broadly on the Hebrew Bible.
Another important function of Gemara is to identify the correct Biblical basis for a given law presented in the Mishnah and the logical process connecting one with the other: this activity was known as talmud long before the existence of the " Talmud " as a text.
These are not divided into Mishnah and Gemara.
Talmud Bavli ( the " Babylonian Talmud ") comprises the Mishnah and the Babylonian Gemara, the latter representing the culmination of more than 300 years of analysis of the Mishnah in the Babylonian Academies.
Neither the Jerusalem nor the Babylonian Talmud covers the entire Mishnah: for example, a Babylonian Gemara exists only for 37 out of the 63 tractates of the Mishnah.
Of the two main components of the Babylonian Talmud, the Mishnah is written in Mishnaic Hebrew and the Gemara is written, with a few exceptions, in a characteristic dialect of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic.
Since the Mishnah and all of the Baraitas and verses of Tanakh quoted and embedded in the Gemara are in Hebrew, Hebrew constitutes somewhat less than half of the text of the Talmud.
The lectures in this section mainly explain the words of the Sifra diTzni ` uta, in a similar manner as the Gemara explains the Mishnah.
The Talmud consists of the Mishnah ( a legal code ) and the Gemara ( Aramaic for " learning "), an analysis and commentary to that code.
The Gemara ( also transliterated Gemora or, less commonly, Gemorra ; from Aramaic גמרא gamar ; literally, " study " or " learning by tradition ") is the component of the Talmud comprising rabbinical analysis of and commentary on the Mishnah.
Gemara and Amoraim
* The Amoraim ( literally the " sayers ") are the sages of the Gemara ( 200 – 500 )
During the period of the Tannaim ( rabbis cited in the Mishna ), the spoken vernacular of Jews in Judaea was a late form of Hebrew known as Rabbinic or Mishnaic Hebrew, whereas during the period of the Amoraim ( rabbis cited in the Gemara ), which began around 200 CE, the spoken vernacular was Aramaic.
The rest, including the discussions of the Amoraim and the overall framework of the Gemara, is in Jewish Babylonian Aramaic.
The rabbis of the Gemara are referred to as Amoraim ( sing.
Gemara and .
The Gemara, in tractate Shabbat 21, focuses on Shabbat candles and moves to Hanukkah candles and says that after the forces of Antiochus IV had been driven from the Temple, the Maccabees discovered that almost all of the ritual olive oil had been profaned.
Sacred Jewish texts written in the Holyland at this time are the Gemara ( 400 ), the Jerusalem Talmud ( 500 ) and the Passover Haggadah.
Relatedly, the three terms-Chayyav, Patur, Mutar-in the Gemara and halakhic codes classify the permissibility of an action or the severity of its prohibition and punishment.
The Gemara originated in two major centers of Jewish scholarship, Palestine and Babylonia.
The Gemara ( Berachos 18b ) relates several stories of people who visited cemeteries and either overheard conversations among dead people or actually conversed with the dead themselves, and received information that was later verified as factually correct.
Over the next four centuries this material underwent analysis and debate, known as Gemara (" completion "), in what were at that time the world's two major Jewish communities, in the land of Israel and in the Babylonian Empire.
Each paragraph is printed on its own, and followed by the relevant Gemara discussion.
Gemara is written in Aramaic, having been compiled in Babylon.
The terms Talmud and Gemara are often used interchangeably.
Some baraitot, however, are known only through traditions cited in the Gemara, and are not part of any other collection.
The Gemara mainly focuses on elucidating and elaborating the opinions of the Tannaim.
The rabbis of the Gemara are known as ( sing.
Much of the Gemara consists of legal analysis.
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