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"Mishnah" is the name given to the 63 tractates that HaNasi systematically codified, which in turn are divided into six "orders." Unlike the Torah, in which, for example, laws of the Sabbath are scattered throughout the books of Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers, all the Mishnaic laws of the Sabbath are located in a single tractate called Shabbat. [8]
A law is de'oraita (Aramaic: דאורייתא, "of the Torah," i.e. scriptural) if it was given with the written Torah. A law is derabbanan (Aramaic: דרבנן, "of our rabbis," Rabbinic) if it is ordained by the rabbinical sages. [1] The concepts of de'oraita and derabbanan are used extensively in Jewish law.
The Torah (/ ˈ t ɔːr ə / or / ˈ t oʊ r ə /; [1] Biblical Hebrew: תּוֹרָה Tōrā, "Instruction", "Teaching" or "Law") is the compilation of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, namely the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. [2] The Torah is also known as the Pentateuch (/ ˈ p ɛ n t ə tj uː k /) or ...
Conduct sales according to Torah law — Lev. 25:14; Not to overcharge or underpay for an article — Lev. 25:14; Not to insult or harm anybody with words — Lev. 25:17; Not to cheat a convert monetarily — Ex. 22:20; Not to insult or harm a convert with words — Ex. 22:20; Purchase a Hebrew slave in accordance with the prescribed laws ...
This outline of Jewish religious law consists of the book and section headings of the Maimonides' redaction of Jewish law, the Mishneh Torah, which details all of Jewish observance. Also listed for each section are the specific mitzvot covered by that section.
The laws typically ascribed to this supposed author are either started by a phrase such as this is the law of..., as is the case, for example, with Numbers 19:14-22; or end with a colophon of the form this is the law of [subject A], [summary of the law concerning subject A], [subject B], [summary of the law concerning subject B], ..., as is the ...
The Bible indicates the special status of the Ten Commandments among all other Torah laws in several ways: They have a uniquely terse style. [63] Of all the biblical laws and commandments, the Ten Commandments alone [63] are said to have been "written with the finger of God" (Exodus 31:18).
Arba'ah Turim (Hebrew: אַרְבָּעָה טוּרִים), often called simply the Tur, is an important Halakhic code composed by Yaakov ben Asher (Cologne, 1270 – Toledo, Spain c. 1340, also referred to as Ba'al Ha-Turim).