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Gemara Terms 1

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אמורה Amora   Jewish scholars who "said" or "told over" the teachings of the Oral law, from about 200 to 500 CE in Babylonia and the Land of Israel. "one who says". or "those who speak over the people", or "spokesmen")  
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אמוראים Amoraim   Plural for Amora  
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גמרא Gemara   "Study". (in Aramaic) The component of the Talmud comprising rabbinical analysis of and commentary on the Mishnah.  
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תלמוד Talmud   "to Study". (Hebrew) The Gemara when combined with the Mishnah.  
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סוגיא Soogya   Discussion. (in Aramaic) The Gemara for each Mishna can go on for pages, so it's broken down into Discussions. each discussion is called a Sugya.  
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סוגיות Soogyot   Discussions  
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בבלי Bavli   Babylonian  
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ירושלמי Yerushalmi   Of Yerushalayim  
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תוספתא Tosefta   Refers to a compilation of the Jewish oral law from the period of the Mishnah. Acts as a supplement to the Mishnah and includes בריתות  
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תלמוד בבלי Talmud Bavli   The Babylonian Talmud. Completed about the year 500 CE, although it continued to be edited later. The word "Talmud", when used without qualification, usually refers to the Babylonian Talmud.  
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תלמוד ירושלמי Talmud Yerushalmi   The Jerusalem Talmud. The Jerusalem Talmud predates its counterpart, the Babylonian Talmud (also known as the Talmud Bavli), by about 200 years and is written in both Hebrew and Jewish Palestinian Aramaic.  
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ארמי Arami   Aramaic. was the day-to-day language of Israel in the Second Temple period  
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דף Daf   Sheet/Page. Refers to each double sided Page of Talmud  
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עמוד Amud   Column /pillar. Refers to each side of a sheet of paper. Each sheet has two sides/columns עמוד א and עמוד ב  
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