abstract:Chazal or Ḥazal () is 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 Talmudera's, essentially from the times of the final 300 years of the Second Temple of Jerusalem until the 6th century CE.