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Gemara

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Gemara: see Talmud Talmud [Aramaic from Heb.,=learning], in Judaism, vast compilation of the Oral Law with rabbinical elucidations, elaborations, and commentaries, in contradistinction to the Scriptures or Written Laws. The Talmud is the accepted authority for Orthodox Jews everywhere.
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Gemara

Commentary on the collection of Jewish law known as the Mishna. Written by Jewish scholars in Palestine and Babylonia c. AD 200–500, it is printed around the relevant passage of the Mishna. See also Talmud.



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The use of the word may have come into vogue then, but there were "schools of the prophets" (bnei hanevi'im) in biblical times who practiced various forms of meditation; the Gemara, too, mentions esoteric traditions that must have involved forms of meditation.
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