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MishnahThe Mishnah is an ancient collection of Rabbinic teachings on law and practice as transmitted by the Tannaim of the first and second centuires C.E. The Mishnah was collected and edited into its current form around 200 CE during the time of Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi. It remains one of the most authoritative documents of the Jewish religion. The Mishnah is essentially a commentary, or interpretation of, many passages in the Torah which proved to be unclear for interpreters of Jewish written law. There are six orders or divisions in the Mishnah. They attempt to cover all human activity.
These six divisions contain the 63 tractates of the Mishnah (see Jacobs CCJR 1999, "Mishnah", and Neusner MNT 1988). How to find a translation of the MishnahThere are many translations available. However, none is more readily accessible to modern English reading students than The Mishnah: A New Translation by Jacob Neusner (Neusner MNT 1988). There have also been more than a few attempts to create publicly available on-line texts for the Mishnah, although many of these provide only the Hebrew text. One interesting and promising version, containing Hebrew and English, can be found at Wikisource.org however it is incomplete, and it is not presented in a form that lends itself to simple reading. Contributors |