Gemara (gemara)

[Chal., complement, completion.] A body of rabbinical comments and opinions on the Mis Mishnah, and with it forming the Talmud, or, according to many Jewish writers, itself constituting the Talmud. Gemara The Gemara exists in two forms or recensions, receiving name from the regions in which they were compiled, viz., the Jerusalem or Palestinian and the Babylonian, the former having been completed about the middle of the fourth and the latter about the end of the sixth century. See Mishnah and Talmud.