Mishnah

• Mischna, Mishna

Borrowed from Hebrew מִשְׁנָה‎ (mišnāh, “repetition, oral law”), from שָׁנָה‎ (šānāh, “to repeat, teach”)

Mishnah

1. 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).

   The Mishnah is believed by Jews to have been handed down orally from the patriarch-prophet Moses, who received it on Mount Sinai with the written Torah.

• the Oral Torah

• Mishnaic, Mishnic, Mishnical (adjectives)

• Torah