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TANNA

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tanna, also spelled Tana (Aramaic: “teacher”), plural Tannaim, or Tanaim, any of
several hundred Jewish scholars who, over a period of some 200 years, compiled
oral traditions related to religious law. Most tannaim lived and worked in
Palestine. Their work was given final form early in the 3rd century ad by Judah
ha-Nasi, whose codification of oral laws became known as the Mishna (q.v.). Some
scholars believe the Mishna was committed to writing at this time, while others
believe it was preserved solely by memory for another three or four centuries.



The tannaim were succeeded by other scholars, called amoraim (“interpreters” or
“reciters”) who, in Palestine and Babylonia, wrote extensive commentaries
(Gemara) on the Mishna. The Palestinian and Babylonian Talmuds thus have the
same Mishnaic content but significantly different Gemara.

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Judah ha-Nasi, (born ad 135—died c. 220), one of the last of the tannaim, the
small group of Palestinian masters of the Jewish Oral Law, parts of which he
collected as the Mishna (Teaching). The Mishna became the subject of
interpretation in the Talmud, the fundamental rabbinic compendium of law, lore,
and commentary. Because of his holiness, learning, and eminence, Judah was
variously called ha-Nasi (“the prince”), rabbi (“teacher”), rabbenu (“our
teacher”), and rabbenu ha-qadosh (“our saintly teacher”). A descendant of the
great sage Hillel, Judah succeeded his father, Simeon ben Gamaliel II, as
patriarch (head) of the Jewish community in Palestine and, consequently, of the
Sanhedrin as well, at that time chiefly a legislative body (in earlier times,
the Sanhedrin had been primarily a court). As patriarch at Bet Sheʿarim and
later at Sepphoris (both located in Galilee, a Palestinian region of historic
importance), he maintained a liaison with the Roman authorities and, according
to the Talmud, was a friend of one of the Antonine emperors (either Antoninus
Pius or Marcus Aurelius), with whom he discussed such philosophic questions as
the nature of reward and punishment. When Judah died, he was buried at Bet
Sheʿarim.



Because the Written Law of the Jews (found in the Pentateuch, or Five Books of
Moses) could not cover all exigencies, over the centuries a body of Oral Law had
developed. In order to preserve this tradition, Judah spent some 50 years in Bet
Sheʿarim sifting the Oral Law, which he then compiled into six orders dealing
with laws related to agriculture, festivals, marriage, civil law, the temple
service, and ritual purity. His purpose was not only to preserve a storehouse of
tradition and learning but also to decide which statement of Halakhot (laws) was
normative. Although he edited the six orders of the Mishna by subject matter,
according to the method of two earlier tannaim, Rabbi Akiba and Akiba’s pupil
Rabbi Meïr, Judah made profound contributions of his own. He determined which
rabbinic opinions were authoritative, at the same time carefully preserving
minority opinions in case laws should be changed in the future and a precedent
for these changes be required. On the other hand, he omitted laws that were
obsolete or otherwise lacking in authority. The Mishna became the subject for
commentaries by subsequent sages in Palestine and Babylonia called amoraim;
these commentaries became known as the Gemara (Completion), which, along with
the Mishna, make up the Babylonian and Palestinian Talmuds. (The term Talmud is
also used alternatively for the commentaries, instead of Gemara.)



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