7 Volume Mishnah(Mishna) Translated English Blackman Mishnayot Very Nice משניות

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Complete 7 Volume set including elusive Index volume. Description of Set contents: All volumes except Taharoth contain a Biblical Index of verses found in their respective volume, a mini-index solely for that volume, 2 of the volumes contain a glossary of flora for that volume (Due to its heavy focus on subjects which overlap) and one has a biographical collection of the personalities mentioned in the Mishnah. Classic Translation of the Mishnayos (Mishnayoth) by Philip Blackman. (Mishnayos)
The mishnah is the compilation of the whole body of laws, customs and wise saying of the  rabbinic tradition culled from ca. 200 B.C.E. - ca 250 A.D.
Condition: Beautiful set as shown, pages are complete, sharp, nice, and clean.
If you desire a set with the original dust-covers, then search for this set in my store
and the other one will come up. Nice covers and binding. No writing in interior.
1. All the volumes have a mini-index focusing on that Order alone, then the Supplement volume contains an all-encompassing index for the entire set and it is much more comprehensive.
2. Each volume has a very short introduction to its Order alone, here it has a very important all-encompassing and longer introduction to the entire Mishna body.
3. A very helpful grammar section for Hebrew and Aramaic found in the Mishna and Talmud.
4. An indispensable list of Greek and Latin terms in Hebrew with their equivalent in Greek and Latin. The Greek is given in Greek letters in addition to being transliterated to the English.
5. Glossary of Fauna found in the Mishna.
6. Glossary of Flora for Order Taharoth, not included in the Taharoth volume.
7. Biblical Index of verses for the entire Mishna.
8. Very important Corrigenda and Addenda to all 7 volumes.
The Mishnah was redacted at the beginning of the third century CE in a time when, according to the Talmud, the persecution of the Jews and the passage of time raised the possibility that the details of the oral traditions of the Pharisees from the Second Temple period (536 BCE – 70 CE) would be forgotten. The majority of the Mishnah is written in Mishnaic Hebrew, while some parts are Aramaic.
The Mishnah consists of six orders (sedarim, singular seder סדר), each containing 7–12 tractates (masechtot, singular masechet מסכת; lit. "web"), 63 in total, and further subdivided into chapters and paragraphs or verses. The word Mishnah can also indicate a single paragraph or a verse of the work itself, i.e. the smallest unit of structure in the Mishnah. For this reason the whole work is sometimes called by the plural, Mishnayot.
The Mishnah or Mishna (Hebrew: מִשְׁנָה‎) is the first major written collection of the Jewish oral traditions known as the Oral Torah. It is also the first major work of rabbinic literature. The Mishnah was redacted by Judah ha-Nasi at the beginning of the third century CE[4] in a time when, according to the Talmud, the persecution of the Jews and the passage of time raised the possibility that the details of the oral traditions of the Pharisees from the Second Temple period (536 BCE – 70 CE) would be forgotten. Most of the Mishnah is written in Mishnaic Hebrew, while some parts are Aramaic.
The Mishnah consists of six orders (sedarim, singular seder סדר), each containing 7–12 tractates (masechtot, singular masechet מסכת; lit. "web"), 63 in total, and further subdivided into chapters and paragraphs. The word Mishnah can also indicate a single paragraph of the work, i.e. the smallest unit of structure in the Mishnah. For this reason the whole work is sometimes referred to in the plural form, Mishnayot. The term "Mishnah" originally referred to a method of teaching by presenting topics in a systematic order, as contrasted with Midrash, which followed the order of the Bible. As a written compilation, the order of the Mishnah is by subject matter and includes a much broader selection of halakhic subjects, and discusses individual subjects more thoroughly, than the Midrash. The Mishnah consists of six orders (sedarim, singular seder סדר), each containing 7–12 tractates (masechtot, singular masechet מסכת; lit. "web"), 63 in total. Each masechet is divided into chapters (peraqim, singular pereq) and then paragraphs (mishnayot, singular mishnah). In this last context, the word mishnah means a single paragraph of the work, i.e. the smallest unit of structure, leading to the use of the plural, "Mishnayot", for the whole work.
Because of the division into six orders, the Mishnah is sometimes called Shas (an acronym for Shisha Sedarim – the "six orders"), although that term is more often used for the Talmud as a whole. The six orders are: Zeraim ("Seeds"), dealing with prayer and blessings, tithes and agricultural laws (11 tractates) Moed ("Festival"), pertaining to the laws of the Sabbath and the Festivals (12 tractates) Nashim ("Women"), concerning marriage and divorce, some forms of oaths and the laws of the nazirite (7 tractates) Nezikin ("Damages"), dealing with civil and criminal law, the functioning of the courts and oaths (10 tractates) Kodashim ("Holy things"), regarding sacrificial rites, the Temple, and the dietary laws (11 tractates) and Tohorot ("Purities"), pertaining to the laws of purity and impurity, including the impurity of the dead, the laws of food purity and bodily purity (12 tractates). In each order (with the exception of Zeraim), tractates are arranged from biggest (in number of chapters) to smallest.
Hillel the Elder organized them into six orders to make it easier to remember, and Rabbi Judah Hanassi (2nd century) edited and organized them into the form we see now.
A few notable laws are absent from this massive undertaking. Margolies suggests that as the Mishnah was redacted after the Bar Kokhba revolt, Judah could not have included discussion of Hanukkah, which commemorates the Jewish revolt against the Seleucid Empire (the Romans would not have tolerated this overt nationalism). Similarly, there were then several decrees in place aimed at suppressing outward signs of national identity, including decrees against wearing tefillin and tzitzit; as conversion to Judaism was against Roman law, Judah would not have discussed this. David Zvi Hoffmann suggests that there existed ancient texts analogous to the present-day Shulchan Aruch that discussed the basic laws of day to day living and it was therefore not necessary to focus on these laws in the Mishnah.
Mishnah, Gemara, and Talmud Rabbinic commentaries on the Mishnah from the next four centuries, done in the Land of Israel and in Babylonia, were eventually redacted and compiled as well. In themselves they are known as Gemara. The books which set out the Mishnah in its original structure, together with the associated Gemara, are known as Talmuds. Two Talmuds were compiled, the Babylonian Talmud (to which the term "Talmud" normally refers) and the Jerusalem Talmud. Unlike the Hebrew Mishnah, the Gemara is written primarily in Aramaic. משניות באנגלית
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