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toseftanounA compilation of the Jewish oral law from the late 2nd century, the period of the Mishna.
sefer torahnoun(Judaism) A scroll of the Torah, a handwritten parchment containing the Pentateuch
torahnoun(Abrahamism) The first five books of the Hebrew Scriptures, traditionally attributed to Moses and therefore also known as the Five Books of Moses.
mishnanounAlternative spelling of Mishnah. [The oldest part of the Talmud, rabbinical writings collected by Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi and published in 250 C.E. in Javneh (יבנה, in Israel).]
gemaranoun(Judaism) Part of the Talmud, comprising rabbinical analysis of and commentary on the Mishnah.
matan torahnoun(Judaism) The giving of the Torah to the Israelites at Mount Sinai
mishnahnounThe oldest part of the Talmud, rabbinical writings collected by Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi and published in 250 C.E. in Javneh (יבנה, in Israel).
mischnanounAlternative form of Mishna.
chamisha chumshei torahnoun(Judaism) The Pentateuch collectively.
d'var torahnoun(Judaism) A sermon upon the weekly parashah.
masoretnounAn unwritten tradition orally passed down as law by the Hebrews.
gemoranounAlternative form of Gemara. [(Judaism) Part of the Talmud, comprising rabbinical analysis of and commentary on the Mishnah.]
talmudismnounThe teachings of the Talmud, or adherence to them.
gemorranounAlternative form of Gomorrah. [(biblical) A city in the Middle East which, according to the Hebrew Bible and to Islamic tradition, was destroyed by God (along with Sodom) for the sins of its inhabitants.]
amoranounAny of the Jewish scholars of about 200 to 500 CE who orally transmitted the teachings of the Mishna.
rabbinic judaismnounThe mainstream form of Judaism since the 6th century CE, after the codification of the Babylonian Talmud, having its roots in Pharisaic Judaism and based on the belief that Moses at Mount Sinai received two items from God: the written Torah and the oral Torah.
azharotnoun(Judaism) Didactic liturgical poems on, or versifications of, the 613 commandments in rabbinical enumeration.
tosephtanounAlternative form of Tosefta. [A compilation of the Jewish oral law from the late 2nd century, the period of the Mishna.]
masekhetnoun(Judaism) A Talmudic tractate.
massoretnounAlternative form of masoret. [An unwritten tradition orally passed down as law by the Hebrews.]

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