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Yeshivish glossary term

Mishnah

משנה

Meaning

  • Mishnah
  • early rabbinic legal compilation

Alternate spellings

Mishna

Usage and context

Can mean the work as a whole or an individual unit of Mishnah.

Category
sacred books
Language origin
Hebrew

Example in Yeshivish

We learned that Mishnah yesterday.

Plain-English example

We studied that unit of the Mishnah yesterday.