Tractate information

Look up tractate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tractate, a written work dealing formally and systematically with a subject, may refer to: Masekhet...

The Tripartite Tractate is a Valentinian Gnostic work. The date is estimated to the second half of the third century or the fourth century but is "most...

of the Fathers. Pirkei Avot consists of the Mishnaic tractate of Avot, the second-to-last tractate in the order of Nezikin in the Mishnah, plus one additional...

Gittin (Hebrew: גיטין) is a tractate of the Mishnah and the Talmud, and is part of the order of Nashim. The content of the tractate primarily deals with the...

tractates (Hebrew: מסכתות קטנות, masechtot qetanot) are essays from the Talmudic period or later dealing with topics about which no formal tractate exists...

Mishnah/Seder Nashim Textual resources Tractate Yebamoth Tractate Kethuboth Tractate Nedarim Tractate Nazir Tractate Sotah Tractate Gittin Tractate Kiddushin...

name of a tractate of the Talmud, located in Nezikin, the fourth Order of the Talmud dealing with damages. The main topic of the tractate is laws pertaining...

“The Tractate Middoth” is a short ghost story by British author M. R. James. It was published in 1911 in More Ghost Stories, James's second collection...

Mishna, Moed is the third shortest. The order of Moed consists of 12 tractates: Shabbat: or Shabbath (שבת‎) ("Sabbath") deals with the 39 prohibitions...

spelled Pesahim, is the third tractate of Seder Moed ("Order of Festivals") of the Mishnah and of the Talmud. The tractate discusses the topics related...

"Vessels") is the first tractate in the Order of Tohorot in the Mishnah. It contains thirty chapters, making it the longest tractate in the entire Mishnah...

translates the term as κίβδηλον, meaning 'adulterated'. The Mishnah in tractate Kil'ayim (9:8), interprets the word as the acrostic of three words: שע...

Jewish religious law (halakha) and Jewish theology. Every printed masekhet (tractate) of Talmud Bavli begins on page 2 (with the exception of Middot, Tamid...

contains a tractate on the red heifer, which is the tractate Parah ("cow") in Seder Tohorot, which explains the procedures involved. The tractate has no existing...