What is The Mishnah?

My curiosity of the origin and use of Mishnah began when I began looking into the reason the name of God was removed from written texts in most bible translations today. The word Mishnah came up. I found it was a tradition of Jewish Rabbi to remove Gods name because it was unholy to mispronounce it. Therefore since it was unclear what the exact pronunciation of the name was, it was removed and replaced by the title God or Lord. I have taken all that I can find on the Mishnah and put it in my blog for future reference. This blog remains under construction.

The Mishnah or Mishna (Hebrew: מִשְׁנָה, "study by repetition"), from the verb shanah שנה, or "to study and review", also "secondary;"[1] is the first major written redaction of the Jewish oral traditions known as the "Oral Torah". It is also the first major work of Rabbinic literature.[2][3] The Mishnah was redacted between 180 and 220 CE by Rabbi Yehudah haNasi when, according to the Talmud, the persecution of the Jews and the passage of time raised the possibility that the details of the oral traditions of the Pharisees from the Second Temple period (536 BCE – 70 CE) would be forgotten. The majority of the Mishnah is written in Mishnaic Hebrew, while some parts are Aramaic. The Mishnah consists of six orders (sedarim, singular seder סדר), each containing 7–12 tractates (masechtot, singular masechet מסכת; lit. "web"), 63 in total, and further subdivided into chapters and paragraphs or verses. The word Mishnah can also indicate a single paragraph or a verse of the work itself, i.e. the smallest unit of structure in the Mishnah. For this reason the whole work is sometimes called by the plural, Mishnayot.

[1] In the Greek language, the name Deuterosis means "repetition."
[2] Jump up The list of joyful days known as Megillat Taanit is older, but according to the Talmud it is no longer in force.
[3] "Commentary on Tractate Avot with an Introduction (Shemona perakim)". World Digital Library. Retrieved 19 March 2013.