The
Gemara (also
transliterated Gemora,
Gemarah or, less commonly,
Gemorra; 'גמרא' noun - from
Aramaic verb
gamar, literally, "study") is the component of the
Talmud comprising rabbinical analysis of and commentary on the
Mishnah. After the Mishnah was published by
Judah HaNasi (c. 200 CE), the work was studied exhaustively by generation after generation of rabbis in
Babylonia and the
Land of Israel. Their discussions were written down in a series of books that became the Gemara, which when combined with the Mishnah constituted the Talmud.