And Now – the Mishna Quiz
by Gil Ronen (Arutz Sheva)
The seventh annual Mishna Quiz is set to begin this week. Hundreds of students from Israel's junior high schools will take part in the quiz, which tests knowledge of the Mishna – the compendium of Oral Law that originated at Mount Sinai but was written down about 2,000 years ago by Rabbi Yehuda Hanassi to prevent its details from being forgotten. It includes legal pronouncements, moral observations and debates about interpretations of the law between the Jewish sages of his period, known as the Tannaim.
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Monday, May 03, 2010
The Mishnah Quiz
THE MISHNAH QUIZ is this week: