# mishnah (מִשְׁנָה)

pronounced: mish-NAH


**Repetition, study — the early rabbinic compilation of oral Jewish law and practice**

## In Scripture

> and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
> — Deuteronomy 6:7 (The later Mishnah is not Scripture; this command supplies a biblical pattern of repeated, embodied teaching.)

> It shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write himself a copy of this law in a book, out of that which is before the priests the Levites.
> — Deuteronomy 17:18 (Mishneh here means a copy of the Torah and shares the linguistic field of repetition behind the later title Mishnah.)


## How to read this entry

The definition comes from the IsraelForYou lexicon. Scripture quotations and their translation are named below; later tradition or modern usage is identified when it appears.


https://israelforyou.com/hebrew/mishnah/