NOUN
- the first part of the Talmud; a collection of early oral interpretations of the scriptures that was compiled about AD 200
How To Use Mishna In A Sentence
- But the men most closely associated with the compilation of the Mishnah were the Tannaim (from the root _tana_, which has the same meaning as _shana_). Chapters on Jewish Literature
- At the shloshim of Rav Avigdor Cyperstein, he learned mishnayes and said the kaddish for his neshama. Aish Weekly Articles
- Only the tanna, R. Johanan ben Beroka (beginning of the second century c.e.), claimed that women were obligated in procreation on the basis of Genesis 1: 28 where both males and females are blessed (Mishnah Yevamot 6: 6), but his opinion was not accepted as halakhah (Rambam, Ishut 15: 2; Shulhan Arukh E.H. 1: 13). Legal-Religious Status of the Jewish Female.
- (“A mamzer shall not enter the congregation of the Lord” [Mishnah, Yevamot 8: 3; Mishnah, Kiddushin 3: 12]). Divorce: The Halakhic Perspective.
- The disproportion between the 3,400 Shekels and the 1,000 Half-Shekels is to be understood from the prescription of the Mishna that each payment of a Half-Shekel for one person was liable to an agio of 4-8%.
- According to the Mishnah and Jerusalem Talmud, a complex system of internal controls was instituted to sell and distribute items.
- Women are obligated in tefillah (the amidah [lit. “standing,” the prayer of eighteen benedictions]) even though there is an obligation to say it at specified times (Mishnah Berakhot 3: 3). Legal-Religious Status of the Jewish Female.
- In the Talmud, you start with a Mishnah, which is a short summary of a given law, and then move to an exposition of the law. Josh Fleet: Is Journalism Kosher?
- Entertainment Weekly on I'm Down by Mishna Wolff A: "All of Wolff's experiences funnel into this buoyant memoir, which is rich in detail but never feels overembellished. Omni Daily News
- Moshe Basson's culinary roots stretch back through time from 200 CE, when the collection of Jewish oral law known as the Mishnah began to take shape - to the Jewish presence in Iraq, where his family lived till the 1950s - to the present time in Jerusalem. English-writing Israeli-bloggers
