The Torah's commandment to love God " with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your might " ( Deuteronomy 6: 5 ) is taken by the Mishnah ( a central text of the Jewish oral law ) to refer to good deeds, willingness to sacrifice one's life rather than commit certain serious transgressions, willingness to sacrifice all of one's possessions, and being grateful to the Lord despite adversity ( tractate Berachoth 9: 5 ).

Philosophical speculation was not a central part of Rabbinic Judaism, although some have seen the Mishnah as a philosophical work.

He was a great authority in the matter of Jewish tradition, and one of the most central and essential contributors to the Mishnah and Midrash Halakha.

With the demise of ancient kingdoms of Israel and Judah and coinciding with the revolt of the Maccabees against ancient Greece and later Jewish-Roman wars, the sages of the Mishnah and subsequently the Talmud, referred to as the Oral Law in Judaism, took on a growing and central leadership roles.

Accordingly, they rejected the central works of Rabbinic Judaism which claimed to expound and interpret this written law, including the Mishnah and the Talmud, as authoritative on questions of Jewish law.

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.

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.

The Talmud was a compilation of both the Mishnah and the Gemara, rabbinic commentaries redacted over the next three centuries.

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 ).

The Mishnah is a compilation of legal opinions and debates.

Additions, Supplements ) is a compilation of the Jewish oral law from the period of the Mishnah.

The Mishnah ( Hebrew: משנה ) is the basic compilation of the Oral law of Judaism ; it was compiled around 220 CE.

The term midrash also can refer to a compilation of Midrashic teachings, in the form of legal, exegetical, homiletical, or narrative writing, often configured as a commentary on the Bible or Mishnah.

The Mishnah Berurah is a compilation of halachic opinions rendered after the time of the writing of the Shulchan Aruch.

In the Mishnah Torah, intended to be a complete compilation of Talmudic law, the theme of proclaiming the Unity of the Creator and eradication of idolatry is not limited to the sections specified for these topics.

A page of TalmudIn the centuries after its compilation, discussion and commentary upon the Mishnah flourished in Jewish academies in Israel and in Babylon.

Joseph Jacobs, in the Jewish Encyclopedia article mentioned, notes that the transition from the triennial to the annual reading of the Law and the transference of the beginning of the cycle to the month of Tishri are attributed by Sándor Büchler to the influence of Abba Arika, also known as " Rab ," or " Rav ," ( 175 – 247 CE ), a Jewish Talmudist who lived in Babylonia, and who established at Sura the systematic study of the rabbinic traditions, which, using the Mishnah as text, led to the compilation of the Talmud:

* Sefer Ha-Aggadah ( The Book of Legends ) is a classic compilation of aggadah from the Mishnah, the two Talmuds and the Midrash literature.

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.

In the Mishnah, a core text of Rabbinic Judaism, acceptance of the Divine origins of this covenant is considered an essential aspect of Judaism and those who reject the Covenant forfeit their share in the World to Come.

Rabbinic commentaries on the Mishnah over the next three centuries were redacted as the Gemara, which, coupled with the Mishnah, comprise the Talmud.

Most of the authorities quoted in the Mishnah lived after the destruction of the Temple in 70 CE ; it thus marks the beginning of the transition from Pharisaic to Rabbinic ( i. e. modern normative ) Judaism.

No single tractate of the key Rabbinic texts, the Mishnah and the Talmud, is devoted to theological issues ; these texts are concerned primarily with interpretations of Jewish law, and anecdotes about the sages and their values.

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.

Among Orthodox Jews it is used for books both of the Tanakh, the oral law ( Mishnah and Talmud ) or any work of Rabbinic literature.

Rabbinic Judaism had limited philosophical activity until it was challenged by Islam, Karaism, and Christianity-with Tanach, Mishnah, and Talmud, there was no need for a philosophic framework.

" Consider also Rabbinic Hebrew תרמ √ trm ‘ donate, contribute ’ ( Mishnah: T ’ rumoth 1: 2: ‘ separate priestly dues ’), which derives from Biblical Hebrew תרומה t ' rūmå ‘ contribution ’, whose root is רומ √ rwm ‘ raise ’; cf.

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

His followers were called Ananites and, like modern Karaites, do not believe the Rabbinic Jewish oral law ( such as the Mishnah ) to be divinely inspired.

The Tannaim ( Hebrew:, singular, Tanna " repeaters ", " teachers ") were the Rabbinic sages whose views are recorded in the Mishnah, from approximately 10-220 CE.

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.

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.

In contrast, Rabbinic Judaism relies on the legal rulings of the Sanhedrin, the highest court in ancient Israel, as they are codified in the Mishnah, Talmud, and other sources, to indicate the authentic meaning of the Torah.

The Mishnaic Hebrew language or Early Rabbinic Hebrew language is one direct ancient descendant of Biblical Hebrew as preserved by the Jews after the Babylonian captivity, and definitively recorded by Jewish sages in writing the Mishnah and other contemporary documents.

The oral law was subsequently codified in the Mishnah and Gemara, and is interpreted in Rabbinic literature detailing subsequent rabbinic decisions and writings.

The kalal is mentioned specifically in the Mishnah ( Parah 3: 3, Eduyot 7: 5 ), Hebrew Rabbinic writings describe vessels hidden under the direction of Jeremiah the Prophet seven years prior to the destruction of Solomon's First Temple, because the dangers of Babylonian conquest were imminent.

Elements of the Oral Torah were committed to writing and edited by Judah HaNasi in the Mishnah in 200 CE ; much more of the Oral Torah were committed to writing in the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds, which were edited around 600 CE and 450 CE, respectively.

All contemporary Jewish movements consider the Tanakh, and the Oral Torah in the form of the Mishnah and Talmuds as sacred, although movements are divided as to claims concerning their divine revelation, and also their authority.

Halakha constitutes the practical application of the 613 mitzvot (" commandments ", singular: mitzvah ) in the Torah, ( the five books of Moses, the " Written Law ") as developed through discussion and debate in the classical rabbinic literature, especially the Mishnah and the Talmud ( the " Oral law "), and as codified in the Mishneh Torah or Shulchan Aruch ( the Jewish " Code of Law ".

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

* The Mishnah, composed by Rabbi Judah the Prince, in 200 CE, as a basic outline of the state of the Oral Law in his time.

Notably, the Mishnah does not cite a written scriptural basis for its laws: since it is said that the Oral Law was given simultaneously with the Written Law, the Oral Law codified in the Mishnah does not derive directly from the Written Law of the Torah.

By 220 CE, much of the Oral Law was edited together into the Mishnah, and published by Rabbi Judah haNasi.

Of particular significance are the various introductory sections – as well as the introduction to the work itself – these are widely quoted in other works on the Mishnah, and on the Oral law in general.

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.

By contrast, Rabbinical Judaism regards an Oral Law ( codified and recorded in the Mishnah and Talmuds ) as being equally binding on Jews, and mandated by God.

The Mishnah and the Tosefta ( compiled from materials pre-dating the year 200 ) are the earliest extant works of rabbinic literature, expounding and developing Judaism's Oral Law, as well as ethical teachings.

" Thus, Tannaim are " Mishnah teachers "), the sages who repeated and thus passed down the Oral Torah.

During this period rabbis finalized the canonization of the Tanakh, and in 200 Judah haNasi edited together Tannaitic judgements and traditions into the Mishna, considered by the rabbis to be the definitive expression of the Oral Torah ( although some of the sages mentioned in the Mishnah are Pharisees who lived prior to the destruction of the Second Temple, or prior to the Bar Kozeba Revolt, most of the sages mentioned lived after the revolt ).

The Halakha is the development of the Mitzvot as contained in the written law, via discussion and debate in the Oral law, as recorded in the rabbinic literature of the classical era, especially the Mishnah and the Talmud.

In the Oral Torah, the Mishnah comments that the biblical commandment to take the lulav, along with the other four species, is for all seven days of Sukkot only in and around the Temple Mount when the Holy Temple in Jerusalem is extant, as indicated by the verse as " in the presence of Hashem, your God, for seven days.

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.