During the period of the destruction of the Temple the Torah began to be forgotten and the Rabbis wrote down certain concise notes for themselves and their pupils.Three generations after the destruction of the Temple there were many doubts to the final law. Rebbi then descided to write the oral law in what is now called the Mishna.
The Rabbis of the Mishna prepared the way of the whole
period of the exile that came afterwards.
Rebbi Meir and the G*dly Light
Rebbi Shimon and the Valley of Gold
One of then most read works of the Mishna period is Pirkey Avot.
It contains the moral sayings that each of the
Rabbis of this period continually repeaded.
Pirkey Avot in Hebrew