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Mishnah
The Mishnah (; , from the verb lišnot, "to repeat") is the first written collection of the Jewish oral traditions that are known as the Oral Torah. Having been collected in the 3rd century AD, it is the first work of rabbinic literature, written primarily in Mishnaic Hebrew but also partly in Jewish Aramaic. The oldest surviving physical fragments of it are from the 6th to 7th centuries. It is viewed as authoritative and binding revelation by most Orthodox Jews and some non-Orthodox Jews.
Hebrew literature
writing in the Hebrew language
Mishneh Torah
code of Jewish religious law authored by Maimonides
Tosefta
The Tosefta ( "supplement, addition") is a compilation of Jewish Oral Law from the late second century CE, the period of the Mishnah and the Jewish sages known as the Tannaim.
Jerusalem Talmud
Talmud that was written in Palestine
revival of the Hebrew language
process of making Hebrew a lingua franca in Israel
Josippon
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Israeli literature
literature written in Israel by Israelis
Hebrew Book Week
annual week-long event in Israel
Lekhah Dodi
Jewish liturgical song welcoming Shabbat
Alphabet of Sirach
anonymous medieval text; compilation of two lists of proverbs, 22 in Aramaic and 22 in Hebrew, both arranged as alphabetic acrostics
Pirke De-Rabbi Eliezer
literary work
Avot of Rabbi Natan
Minor tractate of the Talmud.
Shalom Aleichem
traditional song sung by Jews every Friday to begin Shabbat
Seder Olam Rabbah
2nd-century AD chronology
Sefer haYashar
midrash, named after the Book of Jasher mentioned twice in the Bible; covers biblical history from the creation of Adam and Eve up to the conquest of Canaan
Midrash Tehillim
haggadic midrash; the extant edition covers Psalms 1–118
Midrash Rabba
part of or the collective whole of specific aggadic midrashim on the books of the Torah and the Five Megillot
Sifra
Sifra () is the Midrash halakha to the Book of Leviticus. It is frequently quoted in the Talmud and the study of it followed that of the Mishnah. Like Leviticus itself, the midrash is occasionally called Torat Kohanim, and in two passages Sifra debbe Rav.
Hebrew translation of the Quran
translation of Quran
Sifre
Sifre (; siphrēy, Sifre, Sifrei, also, Sifre debe Rab or Sifre Rabbah) refers to either of two works of Midrash halakha, or classical Jewish legal biblical exegesis, based on the biblical books of Numbers and Deuteronomy.
Midrash HaGadol
14th century compilation of aggadic midrashim on the Torah taken from the two Talmuds and earlier Midrashim of Yemenite provenance.
rabbinic literature
collective term for all Jewish religious literature
Tanhuma
name given to three different collections of Torah aggadot (2 extant, 1 known only through citations)
Hebrew Writers Association in Israel
organization
Yalkut Shimoni
Compilation of Rabbinic legends corresponding to the Tanach, the Hebrew Bible.
Mishnat ha-Middot
hebrew work on geometry
Mekhilta of Rabbi Ishmael
halakhic midrash to the Book of Exodus
Gnazim Institute archive
archive of Hebrew writers in Israel
Moses da Rieti
Italian physician and poet
Tanna Devei Eliyahu
book
Alphabet of Akiba ben Joseph
midrash on the names of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet
Pesikta de-Rav Kahana
collection of Aggadic Midrash which exists in two editions