Mishnah Yadayim

Mishnah Yadayim ("Hands"), in the order Tohorot (Purities). The impurity of the hands and their washing, and which scriptures "make the hands impure" (the Song of Songs and Ecclesiastes among them). The Mishnah is the first written code of Jewish oral law, compiled in the land of Israel about AD 200 under Rabbi Judah the Prince; it is rabbinic law and teaching, not scripture. English by Joshua Kulp (Mishnah Yomit), Hebrew from the Torat Emet edition.