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200 AD
Major worksMishnah
The first great written collection of Jewish oral law, compiled around 200 CE, organizing centuries of rabbinic teaching on everything from agriculture and festivals to marriage, civil law, and ritual purity. It became the foundation of the Talmud and the bedrock of rabbinic Judaism, shaping Jewish life, law, and study ever since.
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