{"id":2871,"date":"2013-01-18T21:26:08","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T21:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2871"},"modified":"2015-02-07T00:56:16","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T04:56:16","slug":"understanding-the-connection-between-talmud-mishnah-and-gemara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2871","title":{"rendered":"Understanding the connection between Targum, Talmud, Mishnah and Gemara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\"The Talmud has two components: the <a title=\"Mishnah\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mishnah\">Mishnah<\/a> (<a title=\"Hebrew\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hebrew\">Hebrew<\/a>: \u05de\u05e9\u05e0\u05d4, c. 200 CE), the first written compendium of Judaism's Oral Law, and the <a title=\"Gemara\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gemara\">Gemara<\/a> (c. 500 CE), an elucidation of the Mishnah and related Tannaitic writings that often ventures onto other subjects and expounds broadly on the <a title=\"Tanakh\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tanakh\">Hebrew Bible<\/a>.\" -<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Talmud\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>So, long story short:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Talmud<\/strong> (means instruction) is the second important text after the Torah. It is the rabbinical writings. It has <strong>two parts<\/strong>: First, <strong>Mishnah<\/strong>, the earliest collection of those writings, laws based on Torah but not of the Torah. Second, <strong>Gemara<\/strong>, explanation of Mishnah and other stuff. The production of Talmud was chiefly in Babylon (where some Jews remained after the Babylonian captivity), after the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Targum<\/strong> (means Explanation) is basically commentaries of Torah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\"The Talmud has two components: the Mishnah (Hebrew: \u05de\u05e9\u05e0\u05d4, c. 200 CE), the first written compendium of Judaism's Oral Law, and the Gemara (c. 500 CE), an elucidation of the Mishnah and related Tannaitic writings that often ventures onto other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2871\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabularies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2871"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6044,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2871\/revisions\/6044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}