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'''''Talmud'''''. The great Rabbinical thesaurus reduced to writing during the second, fourth and sixth centuries of our era. Consists of two distinct parts: the ''Mishnah'', and its Commentary, the ''Gemara''. The ''Mishnah'' was comp. and ed. by Judah Hanasi, and is the first Jewish code of laws since the ''Torah''; it is a systematic collection of religio-legal decisions developing the laws of the Old Testament. There are two ''Gemaras'': the Babylonian, which is the record of the discussions of the Babylonian scholars on the laws and teachings of the ''Mishnah''; and the Palestinian, which is a similar record in conn. with Palestinian scholars. The ''Mishnah'' together with one or other of the ''Gemaras'' forms the Babylonian or the Palestinian ''Talmud'' respectively. They were always printed separately. The Teachers mentioned in the ''Mishnah'' from the death of Hillel to its completion, are the ''Tannaim''. Those mentioned in the ''Gemara'' are the ''Amaraim''. Later teachers who added comments to the ''Talmud'' (6th and 7th cent.) are known as ''Saboraim'' (“reasoners”). The Rabbis who interpreted the ''Talmud'' are known as the ''Geonim'', if they were heads of academies, and as ''Posekim'' (“deciders”).— ''The Babylonian Talmud''. Tr. into English under ed. of I. Epstein. Sonsino Press, London, 1935-48. 34 vols. | |||
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|author=Boris de Zirkoff | |||
|title=H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings | |||
|detail=vol. 8, p. 416 | |||
|link=Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.8)#416 | |||
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