Mishnah - What is it?
Friday, October 31, 2014
Mishnah - Terminology
›
Terminology The Hebrew root "ShNH" means "to repeat," and refers to memorization by repetition. "Mishnah" th...
Thursday, October 30, 2014
Mishnah - Editions and Commentaries.
›
The Mishnah is extant in many editions, although only the earlier ones can be mentioned here: first edition, Naples, 1492, fol., with the He...
Mishnah - Orders and Treatises.
›
I. The order Zera'im ("Seeds") contains the following eleven treatises: (1) Berakot ("Blessings"), divided into nin...
Mishnah - Chapters.
›
The division of the several treatises into chapters as well as the sequence of these chapters was the work of Rabbi himself (Letter of Sher...
Mishnah - Treatises.
›
The Treatises. It is a harder task to define the principle on which the treatises are arranged within the various orders; and this difficul...
Earlier Divisions.
›
Earlier Divisions. The division of the Mishnah into treatises is a very old device, the collections upon which Rabbi drew being also arrang...
Mishnah - Division into Orders.
›
The Mishnah is divided into six main parts, called orders (Aramaic, "sedarim," plural of "seder"; Hebr. "'araki...
›
Home
View web version