Mishnah
Americannoun
plural
Mishnayoth, Mishnayot, Mishnayos,plural
Mishnahs-
the collection of oral laws compiled about a.d. 200 by Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi and forming the basic part of the Talmud.
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an article or section of this collection.
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of Mishnah
First recorded in 1600–10, Mishnah is from the Medieval Hebrew word mishnāh literally, teaching by oral repetition
Example Sentences
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Lander took his oath of office on a 500-year-old fragment of the Mishnah, an ancient Jewish text documenting oral traditions and laws.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 2, 2021
A low glass cabinet contained the full Mishnah.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 14, 2019
Entire sections of the Mishnah and Talmud are devoted to trying to flesh out this simple command.
From Slate • Oct. 30, 2015
He found a trove of clues in three codices of Jewish Law that were compiled millennia ago in Israel: the Mishnah, Tosefta, and the Jerusalem Talmud.
From National Geographic • Aug. 21, 2015
I explained the Mishnah carefully, showed why there was a contradiction, then read from the commentaries of Rashi and the Tosafists, both of which are printed on the same page as the Talmud text.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
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