Shishah sidrei Mishna - Six parts of Mishna or ש''ס. The Mishnah is a basic collection of laws in Judaism, comprehensive and organized according to topics. The Mishnah includes all the basic and accepted leaderships for managing a Jewish way of life, as formulated in the Tannaim Beit Midrash from the end of the first century to the beginning of the third century. The Mishnah covers a wide range of topics and areas and deals with the details of the laws and laws in each of them. The Mishnah is an innovative composition because it is the first composition to transcribe the oral Torah - Torah she beal Peh - תורה שבעל פה, which was considered forbidden at the time. Its scope is also unprecedented in terms of quantity up to that time. Its pretension is to encompass the various and varied areas of Halakhah. It is not arranged closely to the biblical text but is structurally structured.
The Mishnah is part of the Oral Torah, a tradition that was passed down orally from Moshe Rabbeinu to the Tannaim - חז'''ל, as expressed in the first Mishnah in the Avot. The sages whose words appear in the Mishnah are called conditions. There are different opinions as to when the formulation of the Mishnah began, but it is agreed that its final drafting and formulation was done at the end of the Tannaim period, at the beginning of the third century AD, by Rabbi Yehuda Hanasi and the sages of his generation.
The Mishnah is divided into six orders (Shas) according to different areas of life:
Seder Zeraim - deals with blessings and mitzvot that depend on the land. Contains 655 Mishnayot in 11 Tractates.
Seder Moed - deals with Saturdays, holidays and fasting. Contains 681 Mishnayot in 12 Tractates.
Seder Nashim - deals with marriage, marriage, divorce and the like. Contains 578 Mishnayot in 7 Tractates.
Seder Nezikin - deals with the law of superiors and the rules of law. Contains 685 Mishnayot in 10 Tractates.
Seder Kedashim - deals with the Temple and sacrifices. Contains 590 Mishnayot in 11 Tractates.
Seder Tahorot - deals with types of impurity and their purity. Contains 1003 Mishnayot in 12 Tractates.
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