Finally, in Judaism, the term "Israelite" is, broadly speaking, used to refer to a lay member of the Jewish ethnoreligious group, as opposed to the priestly orders of Kohanim and Levites. In texts of Jewish law such as the Mishnah and Gemara, the term יהודי ("Yehudi"), meaning Jew, is rarely used, and instead the ethnonym ישראלי ("Yisraeli"), or Israelite, is widely used to refer to Jews. Samaritans are not and never call themselves "Jews" יהודים ("Yehudim"), but commonly refer to themselves and to Jews collectively as Israelites, and they describe themselves as Israelite Samaritans.