Mishna

Or, as the Mishna would have it, “the creations were all made in generic form, and they gradually expanded.”

The holiday, which is not recorded in the Hebrew Bible, is noted in other ancient sources, including the Mishna, a record of Jewish oral traditions.

The film, written by Mishna Wolff and based very loosely on the video game of the same name, unfolds in the northeastern hamlet of Beaverfield, home to scores of maple trees and nine cartoonish citizens.

As the group argues: The male Rabbis writing the Mishna, a third-century book of Jewish commentary, recognized several gender categories, so modern-day Hebrew speakers surely can, too.

One critic of Cohn pointed me to the Mishna, the ancient Jewish commentary in which the sage Hillel says, “In a place where there are no men, strive to be a man.”