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- noun A collection or digest of Jewish traditions and explanations of Scripture, forming the text of the Talmud.
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- noun the first part of the Talmud; a collection of early oral interpretations of the scriptures that was compiled about AD 200
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Examples
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It was part of a seemingly systematic way of thinking, a discipline, what in Orthodox parlance is called mishna sedura.
'Israel's Demons': An Exchange Auerbach, Jerold S. 1996
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"There's a mishna [in Makkot] that states that anybody who puts a lasting mark on their body is culpable, meaning they've committed a sin," Rabbi Aaron Alexander, Associate Dean of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at American Jewish University explains.
Danielle Berrin: Victoria Beckham's Hebrew Tattoo: Marital Goodluck Charm? Danielle Berrin 2010
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That very Friday a space was made in the Chevy Nova in which they carpooled while listening to mishna on tape.
The Worst Years of Your Life Mark Jude Poirier 2007
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That very Friday a space was made in the Chevy Nova in which they carpooled while listening to mishna on tape.
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Cannibis was well known to the Rabbis from the time of the mishna, but there is no record of it ever being considered kitniyot.
Hyper-machmir Green Leaf Party warns that the reefers are kitniyot | Jewschool 2007
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Cheese, again according to the shulchan oruch, mishna berura, etc… must be made by a Jew.
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That very Friday a space was made in the Chevy Nova in which they carpooled while listening to mishna on tape.
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Cheese, again according to the shulchan oruch, mishna berura, etc… must be made by a Jew.
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The interest was intense, numerous questions were asked and graciously answered, and the _mishna_ was again taken up.
Rabbi and Priest A Story Milton Goldsmith
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In contemplating their definitions, we might reasonably conclude that our mishna refers primarily to grand gestures of one or the other.
Aish.com 2010
bilby commented on the word mishna
Hmmm, mishna, parishioner, krishna...I see a pattern here.
February 27, 2016