" A famous Mishnah statement on attempts to " pierce the veil " is this: " Whoever reflects on four things it were better for him that he had not come into the world: " what is above?

The Mishnah also quotes the Torah for principles not associated with law, but just as practical advice, even at times for humor or as guidance for understanding historical debates.

According to Orthodox Judaism, Jewish law today is based on the commandments in the Torah, as viewed through the discussions and debates contained in classical rabbinic literature, especially the Mishnah and the Talmud.

The Mishnah is a compilation of legal opinions and debates.

This tradition of study and debate reached its fullest expression in the development of the Talmudim, elaborations of the Mishnah and records of Rabbinic debates, stories, and judgements, compiled around 400 in Palestine and around 500 in Babylon.

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 Rashba defended Rambam ( Maimonides ) during contemporary debates over his works, and he authorized the translation of Rambam's commentary on the Mishnah from Arabic to Hebrew.

: See also Oral law ; Halacha l ' Moshe m ' Sinai ; Relationship between the Bible and the Mishnah and Talmud.

A second classical distinction is between the Written Torah ( laws written in the Hebrew Bible, specifically its first five books ), and Oral Law, laws believed transmitted orally prior to compilation in texts such as the Mishnah, Talmud, and Rabbinic codes.

( By contrast, the Mishnah states concluded legal opinions-and often differences in opinion between the Tannaim.

Resolving contradictions, perceived or actual, between different statements in the Mishnah, or between the Mishnah and other traditions ; e. g., by stating that: two conflicting sources are dealing with differing circumstances ; or that they represent the views of different Rabbis.

The Rabbis, who are traditionally seen as the descendants of the Pharisees, describe the similarities and differences between the two sects in Mishnah Yadaim.

The distinctions between the first and the second Purim in leap years are mentioned 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.

After this period, though, the " House of Hillel " and the " House of Shammai " came to represent two distinct perspectives on Jewish law, and disagreements between the two schools of thought are found throughout the Mishnah, see also Hillel and Shammai.

# Sixth Generation: The interim generation between the Mishnah and the Talmud: Rabbis Shimon ben Judah HaNasi and Yehoshua ben Levi, etc.

In the Mishnah, following on from a discussion about Yom Kippur, immersion in a Mikveh is compared by Rabbi Akiva with the relationship between God and Israel.

The Jerusalem Talmud, talmud meaning " instruction ", " learning ", (, Talmud Yerushalmi, often Yerushalmi for short ), is a collection of Rabbinic notes on the 2nd-century Mishnah ( Jewish oral tradition ) which was compiled in the Land of Israel during the 4th-5th centuries, then divided between the Byzantine provinces of Palaestina Prima and Palaestina Secunda.

According to the Jewish Encyclopedia article on circumcision of proselytes, in the 1st century CE, before the Mishnah was edited, the requirement for circumcision of proselytes was an open issue between the zealots and liberal parties in ancient Israel.

The Mishnah and Talmud distinguish between ritual or criminal matters and monetary matters ( issurim and mamonoth ) and impose different regulations for them, with criminal cases generally having much more stringent limitations.

At that time the controversy between Orthodoxy and Reform Judaism was at its height, and Graetz, true to the principles which he had imbibed from Hirsch, began his literary career by writing contributions to the " Orient ," edited by Julius Fürst, in which he severely criticized the Reform party, as well as Geiger's text-book of the Mishnah (" Orient ," 1844 ).

At the age of seventeen, he began writing his first work, a comparison between the legal style of the Mishnah and Biblical and Talmudic law.

" The sages characterized the relationship between Jonathan and David in the following Mishnah: “ Whenever love depends on some selfish end, when the end passes away, the love passes away ; but if it does not depend on some selfish end, it will never pass away.

The likelihood of a 1st century tomb being built to the west of the city is questionable, as according to the late 1st century Rabbinic leader, Akiva ben Joseph, quoted in the Mishnah, tombs should not built to the west of the city, as the wind in Jerusalem generally blows from the west, and would blow the smell of the corpses and their impurity over the city, and the Temple Mount.

Shammai ( 50 BCE – 30 CE, Hebrew: שמאי ) was a Jewish scholar of the 1st century, and an important figure in Judaism's core work of rabbinic literature, the Mishnah.

The Sages of the Mishnah known as the Tannaim, from the 1st and 2nd centuries of the common era, were known by the title Rabbi, for example Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Shimon bar Yochoy.

* Johanan ben Nuri, one of the tannaim of the 1st and 2nd centuries, frequently cited in the Mishnah

This dialect is primarily found from the 1st to the 4th century AD, corresponding to the Roman Period after the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem and represented by the bulk of the Mishnah and Tosefta within the Talmud and by the Dead Sea Scrolls, notably the Bar Kokhba Letters and the Copper Scroll.

Mishnah Ta ' anit 3: 8 tells of " Honi the Circledrawer " who, in the middle of the 1st century BCE, was famous for his ability to successfully pray for rain.

In the 1st century BC, natural caves to the east of the two pools were turned into small baths, as part of an asclepieion ; however, the Mishnah implies that at least one of these new pools was sacred to Fortuna, the goddess of fortune, rather than Asclepius, the god of healing.

Honi the Circle-Drawer ) ( 1st century BC ) was a Jewish scholar prior to the age of the tannaim, the scholars from whose teachings the Mishnah was derived.

Abba Arikka ( 175 – 247 ) ( Talmudic Aramaic: ; born: Abba bar Aybo, Hebrew: רבי אבא בר איבו ) was a Jewish Talmudist who lived in Sassanid Babylonia, known as an amora ( commentator on the Oral Law ) of the 3rd century who established at Sura the systematic study of the rabbinic traditions, which, using the Mishnah as text, led to the compilation of the Talmud.

* Rabbi Obadiah ben Abraham of Bertinoro ( 15th century ) wrote one of the most popular Mishnah commentaries.

The core of this text developed in the mid-3rd century as a critique and commentary of the Mishnah, although subsequent additions and editing went on for some time afterwards.

Renowned within Judaism as a sage and scholar, he was the founder of the House of Hillel school for Tannaïm ( Sages of the Mishnah ) and the founder of a dynasty of Sages who stood at the head of the Jews living in the land of Israel until roughly the fifth century of the Common Era.

On the one hand, there are those oral traditions of Rabbinic exegesis ( Midrash ) and legal discussion ( Mishnah and Tosfeta ) that eventually began to be written down towards the end of the 2nd century AD.

A transitional form of the language occurs in the other works of Tannaitic literature dating from the century beginning with the completion of the Mishnah.

About a century after the publication of the Mishnah, Mishnaic Hebrew began to fall into disuse as a spoken language.

Aramaic Primacists generally respond that these sources are late compared to the account in Q, as the Mishnah, the base document of the Babylonian Talmud was compiled in 200, where the Acts of Peter and Andrew is a 3rd century work and therefore the original mistranslation of גמלא ( gamlâ ) predates and is potentially the source of these subsequent paraphrases.

* Obadiah ben Abraham of Bertinoro, ( Bartenura ), 15th century commentator on the Mishnah

* Obadiah ben Abraham of Bertinoro, ( Bartenura ), 15th century commentator on the Mishnah

During Bar Kokhba's revolt against Roman Empire ( 132-135 ), the supreme religious authority Rabbi Akiva sanctioned Simon bar Kokhba to be a war leader, whereas during the 2nd century Judah haNasi was not only the supreme temporal leader sanctioned by Rome, but also edited the original work of the Mishnah which became the " de-facto constitution " of the world's Jewry.

" Much later, ezov / za ' atar appears in the 2nd century CE Mishnah as an ingredient in food at that time in Judea (' Uktzin 2: 2 ), while elsewhere in the Talmud there is mention of herbs ground into oil ( a preparation called mish ' cha t ' china in Aramaic, משחא טחינא ), but it is not specified whether this was like the za ' atar mix known today.

# They introduced the triple classification of the oral law, dividing the study of the Mishnah ( in the larger sense ) into the three branches of midrash, halakot, and aggadot, although this view, which is anonymous, conflicted with that of R. Jonah, an amora of the fourth century, who declared that the founder of this threefold division of traditional science ( see Jew.

Rabbi Israel Lipschitz of Danzig ( 19th century ) gave a famous lecture on Torah and paleontology, which is printed in the Yachin u-Boaz edition of the Mishnah, after Massechet Sanhedrin.

Obadiah ben Abraham, also known as " The Bartenura " after the town, was a 15th century rabbi and commentator of the Mishnah.