One of the tractates of the Babylonian or Jerusalem Talmud
A masekhet (Hebrew: מַסֶּכֶת, Sephardic: /mɑːˈsɛxɛt/, Ashkenazic: /mɑːˈsɛxɛs/; plural masekhtotמַסֶּכְתּוֹת) is an organizational element of Talmudic literature that systematically examines a subject, referred to as a tractate in English.
A tractate/masekhet consists of chapters (perakim; singular: פרקperek or pereq).
A masekhet (Hebrew: מַסֶּכֶת, Sephardic: /mɑːˈsɛxɛt/, Ashkenazic: /mɑːˈsɛxɛs/; plural masekhtot מַסֶּכְתּוֹת) is an organizational element of Talmudic...
source of Jewish religious law (halakha) and Jewish theology. Every printed masekhet (tractate) of Talmud Bavli begins on page 2 (with the exception of Middot...
work dealing formally and systematically with a subject, may refer to: Masekhet, an organizational element of Talmudic literature Minor tractate, a group...
(Sulzbach, 1705), and then in cadenced prose by W. Meisel (Budapest, 1878). Masekhet Purim ("Tractate of Purim"), a Purim Torah, a parody intended to be read...
subject matter are divided into 60 or 63 tractates (masekhtot; singular: masekhet) of more focused subject compilations, though not all tractates have Gemara...
animal, but also humans with congenital abnormalities. In the Talmud for Masekhet Berakhot (58b), there is debate over when to give this blessing for humans...
refer to either children born from adultery or from incest (Talmud Bavli, Masekhet Yevamot), to actually speak of a nation or people. Karaites think that...
commentary on each Mishnah, as well as introductions to each tractate (Masekhet) and order (Seder). This commentary tends to focus on the meaning of the...
Perek may refer to: Luboš Perek, a Czech astronomer a part of a masekhet This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Perek. If an...
Sephardic custom to allow multiple mourners to recite Kaddish together. Masekhet Soferim, an eighth-century compilation of Jewish laws regarding the preparation...
Netzarim, people of the watch) in B.Ta'anit 27b with a late parallel in Masekhet Soferim 17:4. And then "The day of the Notzri according to Rabbi Ishmael...
national songs. "Lekha dodi". Ha-Tzefira. 14 (72): 4. 12 August 1887. Masekhet Amerika [Tractate America]. New York: A. Ginsberg. 1892. hdl:2027/uc1.$b151563...
Iyar, so as not to fast in the happy months of Tishrei and Nisan. The Masekhet Soferim (Chapter 21) says that there were "students" who fasted on a Monday...
irreverence is very thin. An example of such is the fourteenth century Masekhet Purim by Kalonymus ben Kalonymus, condemned by many scholars. Purim Torah...
HaShas in Madison Square Garden in 2005, where he read the beginning of Masekhet Berakhot. Cohen, Yitzchok. "Reb Fishele Speaks". Hamodia. Archived from...
this name is ancient: Rashi and the Tosafists called the treatise both "Masekhet Derekh Eretz" and "Hilkot Derekh Eretz", the latter following b. Berakhot...
Of Pesach, Pages 217–223, Ta’anit Bekhorot – the Fast of the Firstborns, Who Is Included in the Custom to Fast?, The Custom to Rely on a Siyum Masekhet...
Hebrew version was printed in Ha-Karmel in 1863. Shiṭah meḳubetset ʻal masekhet Nedarim. Berlin: Kornegg. 1860. Hilkhot Pesaḥim. Berlin: M. Poppelauer...
Uktzim (Hebrew: עוּקְצִים; ʿUqṣim, "Stems") is the last masekhet of the order of Tohorot in the Mishnah. It is the last tractate in the Mishnah. It consists...
published in Kerem Ḥemed (ii. 52; iii. 88 et seq.; iv. 13). Moshe Hillel, Masekhet Temurot, Jerusalem 2022 (Hebrew). This article incorporates text from...
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