Definition of Gemara. Meaning of Gemara. Synonyms of Gemara

- {{{1}}} The Gemara (also transliterated Gemarah, or in Yiddish Gemore) is an essential component of the Talmud, comprising a collection of rabbinical analyses...
- and the Gemara (גמרא), a commentary on the Mishnah and related Tannaitic writings. Sometimes, the word "Talmud" may only refer to the Gemara. This text...
- Talmud has Gemara—rabbinical analysis of and commentary on the Mishnah—on thirty-seven masekhtot. The Jerusalem Talmud (Yerushalmi) has Gemara on thirty-nine...
- the Gemara (גמרא). Gemara means "completion" (from the Hebrew gamar גמר: "to complete") or "learning" (from the Aramaic: "to study"). The Gemara mainly...
- themselves they are known as Gemara. The books which set out the Mishnah in its original structure, together with the ****ociated Gemara, are known as Talmuds...
- or the Jerusalem Gemara. The Gemara is what differentiates the Jerusalem Talmud from its Babylonian counterpart. The Jerusalem Gemara contains the written...
- structure and characteristics of this activity, see Gemara § Argumentation and debate and § Gemara and Mishnah. Generally, two parallel Talmud streams...
- formed one tractate with Makkot, which also deals with criminal law. The Gemara of the tractate is noteworthy as precursors to the development of common...
- are the Mishnah, compiled between 200–220 CE by Judah ha-Nasi, and the Gemara, a series of running commentaries and debates concerning the Mishnah, which...
- unattributed sources") for the authors of unattributed statements in the Gemara. Much of classical rabbinic literature generally holds that the Babylonian...