Derekh Eretz Zutta (Hebrew: מסכת דרך ארץ זוטא) is one of the minor tractates of the Talmud.
"The Way of the Land", or "Ethics" are common translations of the Hebrew concept of "Derekh Eretz", which every scholar is expected to embody prior to taking up the study of Torah. Thus this "little book on ethics". The name is misleading in more than one respect; the word "zuta" (small) would seem to indicate that it is a shorter version of the treatise "Derekh Eretz Rabbah," which is not the case, the two having little in common. However, this name is ancient: Rashi and the Tosafists called the treatise both "Masekhet Derekh Eretz"[1] and "Hilkot Derekh Eretz",[2] the latter following b. Berakhot 22a. The designation "zuta" is probably of later origin.
DerekhEretzZutta (Hebrew: מסכת דרך ארץ זוטא) is one of the minor tractates of the Talmud. "The Way of the Land", or "Ethics" are common translations...
to: DerekhEretz Rabbah, one of the minor tractates of the Talmud DerekhEretzZutta, one of the minor tractates of the Talmud Torah im Derech Eretz, a...
Zutta may refer to: DerekhEretzZutta, non-canonical tractate of the Babylonian Talmud Devarim Zutta, midrash to Deuteronomy which is no longer extant...
receiving and internalizing the Torah. Torah im Derech EretzDerekhEretz Rabbah DerekhEretzZutta Quote of the Day: "decent behavior precedes Torah" on...
said to be "derekheretz" (good behavior), while the guarding of the tree of life is like the guarding of the word of God. By derekheretz the midrash...
Chakham must live are enumerated in the first chapter of the work DerekhEretzZutta, opening with the following sentence: "The way of the wise is to be...
casuistic and hairsplitting. Authors referred to their own commentaries as "al derekh ha-peshat" (by the simple method) to contrast them with pilpul. Among Sephardi...
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