The Mishnah (
Hebrew משנה, "repetition"), redacted circa
200 CE by
Yehudah Ha-Nasi (יהודה הנשׂיא / "President Judah"), is the first written recording of the
Oral Torah of the
Jewish people, as championed by the
Pharisees, and as debated between 70-200 CE by the group of rabbinic sages known as the Tannaim. It is considered the first important work of
Rabbinic Judaism and is a major source of
Rabbinic Judaism's religious texts: Rabbinic commentaries on the Mishnah over the three centuries after its composition were then redacted as the
Gemara (Aramaic: "Tradition").
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