[Avodah] Division of Mishnayos

[Elazar M. Teitz]

R. Sholomyitz asked, " Who divided the mishna up into chapters & individual mishnayos? 
Did RYehudah HaNasi do this division, or did  that come later?"

     The p'rakim date back at least to the time of the amora'im.  In Bava M'tzia 35a, Rava says that he was learning from Rav Nachman, "upirkin Hamafkid hava."  The individual mishanyos would appear to be the decisions of printers; apparently, each perek consisted of a single mishna, as is the case of the first perek of Sanhedrin as printed in the standard Bavli.  In many places, what are different mishnayos of a perek in all printings are referred to in the g'mara as "reisha" and "seifa," indicating that they are parts of the same mishna.

EMT

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