Baraita (Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: בָּרַיְתָא, romanized: bārayṯā "external" or "outside"; pl. bārayāṯā or in Hebrew baraitot; also baraitha, beraita; Ashkenazi pronunciation: berayse) …

Baraita, any of the ancient oral traditions of Jewish religious law that were not included in the Mishna (the first authoritative codification of such laws). The Baraitot that are found dispersed …

Though the old Baraita, as has been shown, is not only quite independent of the Mishnah, but entirely different from it in character and contents, the distinguishing feature of the later …

A legal or historical document that was not integrated into the Mishnah of Judah ha-Nasi, is called a baraita (“outside”). These pieces were written by rabbinic scholars who lived during the time …

The Baraita of Rabbi Ishmael (Hebrew: ברייתא דרבי ישמעאל) is a baraita that explains the 13 rules of Rabbi Ishmael and their application, employing illustrations from the Torah. The name is …

A baraita (also spelled “beraita” or “braita”) is a term in Jewish rabbinic literature that refers to teaching outside of the Mishnah, the first major written redaction of the Jewish oral traditions …

BARAITA, BARAITOT (Aram. בָּרַיְתָא, pl. בָּרַיְתוֹת), Aramaic for the Hebrew word ḥiẓonah ("external") and an abbreviated form of the phrase matnita baraita – "external mishnah," i.e., a …

The meaning of BARAITA is a traditional Jewish interpretation or statement of biblical law dating from the tannaitic period but not included in the Mishnah.

Iggeret Rabbi Sherira Gaon states that in general, whenever the Talmud prefaces a teaching with the phrase tanu rabbanan (“the rabbis taught”), it is citing a baraita formulated by Rabbi Chiya …

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