Chazal or
Ḥazal , an acronym for the
Hebrew "
Ḥakhameinu
Zikhronam
Liv'rakha" (
חכמינו
זכרונם
לברכה, "Our Sages, may their memory be blessed"), is a general term that refers to all Jewish sages of the
Mishna,
Tosefta and
Talmud eras, spanning from the times of the final 300 years of the
Second Temple of Jerusalem until the 6th century CE, or c. 250 BCE – c. 625 CE.