Intro to Gemara

1. Who were the main rabbis in the times of the Hasmoneans?

• Zugot

• Amoraim

• Tannaim

Midrash Halacha bridges the gap between _______ and ________?

• The legal parts of the Torah and the story parts of the Torah

• • The story Midrash and the Halachic Midrash

• The written Torah and the oral Torah

Which of the following is NOT a collection of Midrash Halacha

• Sifra

• Sifrei

• Safra

• Mechilta

The Mishnah was compiled by

• Hillel

• Rabbi Akiva

• Rabbi Yehudah HaNasi

• Rav Ashi

The Rabbis of the Mishnah are called

• Amoraim

• Tannaim

• Zugot

The Mishnah was compiled in what year?

• 200 BCE

• 500 BCE

• 100 CE

• 200 CE

Teachings from the Tannaitic period that are not included in the Mishnah are called

• Bareita

• Tosfot

• Aggadeta

The MIshnah quotes pesukim from Tanakh

• Always

• Sometimes

• Rarely

• Never

The Mishnah is organized by

• Five Sefarim

• Six Sedarim

• Four Turim

The Talmud Yerushalmi is primarily in which language: 

• Judeo-Greek

• Talmudic Hebrew

• Jewish Palestinian Aramaic