mishnah, n.All

The Mishnah is commentary on the Torah, and the Gemara is commentary on the commentary.

The Mishnah is a document that describes a life of sanctification, in which the rituals of the Temple are adapted for communal participation in a world that has no Temple.

The Mishnah is a document of imagination and fantasy which describes how things are out of the shards and remnants of reality, but it also beams out of beams of hope.