Yehuda HaNasi was right. The creation of the Mishnah allowed the development of Rabbinic scholarship in other places in the Jewish world. The word of the Rabbis was spreading. Their ideas on how to move Judaism forward despite the loss of the 1 1 2 2 Here in Sura, one of our greatest Yeshivot, they say it has been going on ever since the great Rav founded the Yeshiva. It was Rav who studied under Yehudah HaNasi and who brought the latter's Mishnah to Babylon. He realized that though there was 3 3 4 4 5 5