Belonging to the era of the Amoraim, the rabbis who compiled the Gemara, the commentaries on the Mishnah known collectively as Talmud, in the 3rd through 5th centuries CE. Amoraim lived in both Eretz Yisrael and Bavel (Babylonia, which is how Jews referred to Sassanian Persia and later Abbasid Iraq). Just as there were 7…
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Bavli
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Tags: Antiquity, Babylonia, Bavel, Gemara, Talmud
Chazal
חז”ל – “our Sages, of blessed memory,” the abbreviation for חכמנו זכרונם לברכה – Chakhmenu zikhronam li-verakhah, meaning the rabbis of the Mishnah and Talmud, the Tannaim and Amoraim, respectively. Variations are also used, such as רז”ל – Rabbotenu zichronam li-verakhah, “our Rabbis, of blessed memory.”
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Tags: 1st century, 2nd century, 3rd century, Amoraic, Amoraim, Babylon, Eretz Yisrael, Mishnah, Talmud, Tannaim, Tannaitic
Shas
ש”ס – An acronym for the Talmud, from shishah sedarim, the six orders into which both Mishnah and the Gemara on it are divided. Each order of the Mishnah contains multiple massekhtot (tractates, sing. massekhet), not all of which have commentary (Gemara) on them.
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Talmud
Commonly refers to the Talmud Bavli, meaning the Mishnah (redacted Oral Law) with the Gemara (commentary) as redacted in Bavel (Babylon). It is also called by the acronym Shas, referring to the six orders (sedarim, sing. seder) into which the tractates (massekhtot, sing. massekhet) of the Mishnah and Gemara on it are divided. Today, there…
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Tags: Amoraic, Amoraim, Gemara
Tannaitic
Belonging to the era of the Tannaim, the rabbis who composed the Oral Law into the Mishnah in the 1st to 3rd centuries CE. There are 7 generations of Tannaim.
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Tags: 1st century, 2nd century, 3rd century, Amoraic, Amoraim, Mishnah