The Bible and the Talmud
Bible to Midrash
Midrash to Mishnah
Mishnah to Gemara
Rabbis
100
There is a collection of 24 books in the Bible.
How many books are in the Bible?
100
The result came to be known as the Oral Laws
The result of the people of Israel explain the ten commandments came to be known as...
100
Rabbi Yehudah edited the Mishnah, and the Mishnah means "the teaching"
Which Rabbi edited the Mishnah? What does Mishnah stand for?
100
The Rabbis sat down and studied it, scrutinizing, analyzing, ad interpreting it and debating how it should be applied to their own times and situations.
What did the Rabbis do to try to understand the Mishnah?
100
the dramatis personae of the Talmud are almost entirely rabbis.
What is the dramatis personae mostly made up of
200
Judaism is more derived from the Talmud than from the Bible
What is Judaism more derived from as we know it today?
200
From the moment that the people of Israel received the written laws, there was a need to elucidate just exactly what the laws meant.
What did they Jews feel like they had to do once they received the written laws?
200
The Mishnah was organized into six major sections.
How many major sections was the Mishnah organized into?
200
The Rabbis used their own insights and logic to try to explain what the Mishnah meant and how it was to be applied.
What did the Rabbis do to try to explain the Mishnah?
200
The title Rabbi comes from a root word meaning great, and in Babylonia they were called Rav
What does the title Rabbi come from? What were they called in Babylonia?
300
Talmud means "study" in Hebrew. Talmud is the record of rabbinic teachings.
What does Talmud mean in Hebrew? What is the Talmud?
300
The Midrash is an entire literature of commentaries and interpretations which were developed from each book of the bible
What is the Midrash?
300
Zeraim (seeds) Moed (holiday) Nashim (women) Nezikin (damages) Kodashim (holy things) Teharot (clean things)
What is each of the sections names and what does each section mean?
300
For over three centuries, the giant corpus of material grew
How long did the giant corpus of material grow?
300
It was conveyed upon a man by his teacher after having studied for a significant period of time. Ordination was often accompanied by semikhah, a ceremonial "laying on of the hands"
How did someone receive the title Rabbi? What was Ordination?
400
The period of the recordings are more than six hundred years. They begin in the first century C.E. and continue through the sixth and seventh centuries C.E.
Approximately how long is the period of the recordings? When does the recordings start? What centuries do the recordings continue through?
400
the Hebrew root of Midrash is "to search"
What is the Hebrew root of Midrash?
400
Each of these sections were further divided into sub-sections (sixty-three in all), known as masekhtot or tractates
how many sections were these sections further divided into? What were they called?
400
It is known as Gemara, it was then edited ultimately put into writing.
What is it the giant corpus of material known as and what did they do with it?
400
The Rabbis of the next five generations came to be known as the Tannaim. They got the name Tannaim because it came from the Aramaic word "repeaters" because they memorized, repeated, and passed on traditions.
What did the Rabbis came to be known as for the next five generations? Why did they get there new title?
500
The Talmud is made up of 2 books. The first one is called The Mishnah, primarily a compilation of Jewish laws. The second one is called the Gemara, which consists of the rabbinic commentaries and discussions on the Mishnah.
How many works is the Talmud made up of? What are they called? What is in each work?
500
A person would have to go to a specific book of the Midrash and look up the interpretation of the verse he/she was looking for.
What did a person have to do if they wanted to understand a what a verse meant in the Bible?
500
The masekhet was made up of several chapters, and every chapter contained a number of individual teachings, each called a Mishnah.
What was the masekhtot made up of?
500
The Mishnah and the Gemara together came to be called the Talmud
What did the Mishnah and Gemara together come to be called?
500
Gemara- early in the fifth century in Israel, the record of the teachings and discussions of the Amoraim bases on, but not limited to, the Mishnah were gathered and edited Talmud- between the sixth and seveth centuries, a new work appeared, which was made up of the Mishanah and Gemara
What is the Gemara made up of? What is the Talmud made up of?
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