Discovering the Mishna - A Survey of Orders and Tractates

Wednesday evenings – 6:30-7:45pm (In-person at BHS)

March 13, 27, April 3, 10, 17, & May 8

We will be using the edition of Rabbi Eugene Lipman: The Mishnah: Oral Teachings of Judaism, Selected and Translated, New York: Schocken, 1974. Pp. 318
Rabbi Lipman provides the reader with an introduction to the 'Mishnah'. The Mishnah is the compilation of Oral Laws made in the second century which along with the commentaries on it ( the Babylonian and Jerusalem Gemaras) constitute the Talmuds. Rabbi Lipman explains what the Mishnah is , and the part it plays in Jewish life. The main text of the work consists in excerpts from the Six Orders and over sixty Tractates that comprise the Mishnah.