The Mishnah was formed due to fear that the Jewish people would lose their unity and beliefs if they were not in the Holy City.

the second century redactor of the Mishnah (the earliest part of the Talmud.) The village sits on a hilltop overlooking a lush valley. The topography has hardly changed in two millennia and ...

and on every page of Talmud, the text along with the commentators that surround it exemplify the experience of Jews in exile. The Mishnah, written in Hebrew and compiled during the turn of the ...

For centuries, scholars have noted that there is virtually no mention of Hanukkah in the Mishnah, and very little in the Talmud. (By contrast, Purim merits an entire tractate of the Mishnah.) ...

A full set of the Babylonian Talmud, which includes both the Mishnah and the expansive commentary known as Gemara, can cost upwards of $2,000. The Jewish Publication Society’s five-volume ...

Yet the Mishnah tells that at least from the time of the Bar Kochba revolt (132–136 CE), reading the Book of Esther on Purim was considered a mitzvah. But is it Jewish? The Talmud itself refers ...