Classical rabbinic literature in the Mishnah Avot 3: 14 has this teaching:

From the time of the Mishnah and Talmud to the present, Judaism has required specialists or authorities for the practice of very few rituals or ceremonies.

The reason that the Talmud is not usually viewed as a commentary on the Mishnah, is because it also has many other goals, and can get involved in long tangential discussions.

* Some scholars hold that there has been extensive editorial reshaping of the stories and statements within the Mishnah ( and later, in the Talmud.

In the post-World War II period, the Mishnah Berurah has become authoritative.

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.

But not every tractate in the Mishnah has a corresponding talmud.

More recent scholarship, such as that of Yaakov Elman, concludes that since the Tosefta, as we know it, must be dated linguistically as an example of Middle Hebrew 1, it was most likely compiled in early Amoraic times from oral transmission of baraitot., Professor Shamma Friedman, has found that the Tosefta draws on relatively early Tannaitic source material and that parts of the Tosefta predate the Mishnah.

* The Seder ha-Mishmarah, used by some Jews of Near and Middle Eastern origin, in which each weekly Torah portion is studied together with sections from Neviim and Ketuvim and the Mishnah so that all these works are read in full in the course of the year: this too has been published in book form under the title Ḥoq le-Ya ' akob.

" ( Mishnah Sanhedrin 4: 5 ) The Mishnah continues, and states that anyone who kills or saves a single human, not Jewish, life, has done the same ( save or kill ) to an entire world.

According to a tradition which has historical confirmation, it was Akiva who systematized and brought into methodic arrangement the Mishnah, or Halakah codex ; the Midrash, or the exegesis of the Halakah ; and the Halakot, the logical amplification of the Halakah ( Yer.

Johanan bar Nappaḥa ( 199 – 279 ) has left the following important note relative to the composition and editing of the Mishnah and other halakic works: " Our Mishnah comes directly from Rabbi Meir, the Tosefta from R. Nehemiah, the Sifra from R. Judah, and the Sifre from R. Simon ; but they all took Akiva for a model in their works and followed him " ( Sanh.

Rabbinic literature holds that one who removes his circumcision has no portion in the world to come ( Mishnah Ab.

Yosef has printed a commentary on the Mishnah tractate Pirkei Avot (" Ethics of the Fathers ") under the title, Anaf Etz Avot ; and Maor Israel, a commentary on various parts of the Talmud.

In many editions of the Mishnah, even early ones like those of Naples 1492, and of Riva 1559, as well as in most of the editions of the Babylonian Talmud, a fourth chapter, which is likely a Baraisa, has been added to Bikkurim ( comp.

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Bertinoro is usually known as the best commentator of the Mishnah ; the importance of his commentary is illustrated by the fact that since its appearance ( Venice, 1549 ) hardly an edition of the Mishnah has been printed without it.

Making a circuit around the reading desk on Sukkot while each person holds the Four species in his hands has its origin in the Temple service, as recorded in the Mishnah: " It was customary to make one procession around the altar on each day of Sukkot, and seven on the seventh day " 4: 5.

The only saying of his recorded in the Mishnah is his praise of education: " Learning Torah as a child is like writing on fresh paper, but learning Torah in old age is like writing on paper that has been erased " ( Avot 4: 25 ).

Also, Aruch HaShulchan has a much wider scope than the Mishnah Berurah.

His Judaism: The Evidence of the Mishnah ( Chicago, 1981 ; translated into Hebrew and Italian ) is the classic statement of his work and the first of many comparable volumes on the other documents of the rabbinic canon.

This usually indicates that many sages taught so, or that Judah haNasi ( often called " Rabbi ") who redacted the Mishnah together with his academy / court ruled so.

Two institutes at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem have collected major oral archives which hold ( among other things ) extensive recordings of Jews chanting the Mishnah using a variety of melodies and many different kinds of pronunciation.

It is printed in many editions of the Mishnah.

In many compact Mishnah printings, a condensed version of his commentary, titled Ikar Tosafot Yom Tov, is featured.

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.

* 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.

They are not directly listed in the Torah ; elsewhere, the Mishnah observes that " the laws of Shabbat [...] are like mountains hanging by a hair, for they are little Scripture but many laws ".

After many years of effort by a great number of tannaim, the oral tradition was written down around 200 CE by Rabbi Judah haNasi who took up the compilation of a nominally written version of the Oral Law, the Mishnah ( Hebrew: משנה ).

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.

In many ways, the Tosefta acts as a supplement to the Mishnah ( tosefta means " supplement or addition ").

* Tosefta-A set of teachings that in many ways are similar to the Mishnah.

They also believed that as many parts of the Torah, specifically the laws and commandments, are written in unspecific terms, Moses also received an interpretation of the Torah that was transmitted through the generations in oral form till it was finally put in writing in the Mishnah and later, in greater detail, the Talmud.

Orthodox, Sephardim, a majority of Israeli Jews and other Jews, including many whom are not observant, reject critical Bible scholarship and the documentary hypothesis, holding to the opinion that it is contradicted by the Torah in Deuteronomy 31: 24, 25 and 26, and the Talmud ( Gittin 60a, Bava Basra 15b ), which state that Moses wrote the Torah, as well as by the Mishnah, which asserts the divine origin of the Torah as one of the essential tenets of Judaism.

Though engaged in many ways in the development of his society and in the organization of its institutions, during the thirteen years of his stay in Berlin he wrote a text for schools on the religious and moral doctrines of the Mishnah ( Berlin, 1854 ), a criticism of Stahl ( Ueber Stahl's Christliche Toleranz, ib.

At the center of many of these debates are 1 ) " Guide for the Perplexed ", 2 ) " 13 Principles of Faith ", 3 ) " Mishnah Torah ", and 4 ) his commentary on Anusim.

The Shulchan Aruch HaRav is considered authoritative by other Hasidim, and citations to this work are many times found in non-Hasidic sources such as the Mishnah Berurah used by Lithuanian Jews and the Ben Ish Chai used by Sephardic Jews.

The work is broadly considered an authoritative halachic text, and its rulings are frequently cited by later authorities such as Yisrael Meir Kagan in his Mishnah Berurah and the Ben Ish Chai of Yosef Chaim of Baghdad, as well as in many contemporary responsa by leading halachic authorities of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Because the Mishnah encapsulates the entire Oral Law in a purposely compact form ( designed to both facilitate and necessitate oral transmission ), many variant versions, additional explanations, clarifications and rulings were not included in the Mishnah.

In quoting many of Gamliel's ordinances the Mishnah emphasizes the authority of the patriarchal house by recounting the dispute between the patriarch and his deputy Joshua and showing how the latter was forced to yield.

Following the redaction of the Mishnah, many Jewish scholars living in Roman-controlled Syria Palæstina moved to Persia to escape the harsh decrees against Jews enacted by the emperor Hadrian after Bar Kokhba's revolt.