Tannaim (jan 1, 10 – jan 1, 220)
Description:
The Tannaim were rabbis and scholars who taught and debated the details of the Oral Torah. Their many competing legal rulings are recorded in the Mishna and in other Tannaitic literature like the Tosefta.Living mainly in the Land of Israel and in Babylon, the Tannaim survived the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, and the many subsequent upheavals in Jewish life. They enabled Judaism to survive the loss of the Temple and reshape itself into a diasporic religion.
The statements of the Tannaim form the basis of all subsequent halacha (Jewish law).
Important figures: Yohanan ben Zakkai, Rabban Gamliel, Rabbi Akiva, Shimon bar Yochai, Yehuda HaNasi
(origin of the holidays of Tu Bishvat and Tu B'Av)
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Date:
jan 1, 10
jan 1, 220
~ 210 years