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61Rabbi Meir — a historical photo of Rabbi Meir s tomb in Tiberias …
62Matot — Matot, Mattot, Mattoth, or Matos (מַּטּוֹת Hebrew for “tribes,” the fifth word, and the first distinctive word, in the parshah) is the 42nd weekly Torah portion (parshah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the ninth in the book of… …
63Adam in rabbinic literature — Adam in rabbinic literature.In rabbinic literatureWhile the generic character that the name of Adam has in the older parts of Scripture, where it appears with the article ( the man ), was gradually lost sight of, his typical character as the… …
64Talmud and Midrash — ▪ Judaism Introduction commentative and interpretative writings that hold a place in the Jewish religious tradition second only to the Bible (Old Testament). Definition of terms The Hebrew term Talmud (“study” or “learning”) commonly… …
65DEREKH EREẒ — (Heb. דֶּרֶךְ אֶרֶץ; lit. way of the world ; proper deportment ), one of the minor tractates of the Talmud, published in current editions of the Talmud at the conclusion of the fourth order, Nezikin. Derekh Ereẓ, as its name suggests, deals… …
66GITTIN — (Heb. גִּטִּין; divorces ), sixth tractate of the order Nashim in the Mishnah, Tosefta, and Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds. Gittin is placed before Kiddushin because of the custom of arranging the tractates in the order of their length, Gittin… …
67HADRAN — (Heb. הַדְרָן; Aram. we returned ), a term indicating both the celebration held on the completion of the study of a tractate of the Talmud (siyyum) and the type of discourse delivered on that occasion. The origin of the term is the formula found… …
68ḤAGIGAH — (Heb. חֲגִיגָה); the last tractate – according to the customary arrangement – of the order Mo ed in the Mishnah, Tosefta, and the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds. It is also called Reʾiyyah (so in the Zuckermandel edition of the Tosefta). The… …
69ḤULLIN — (Heb. חֻלִּין; profane ), a tractate of the order Kodashim in the Mishnah, Tosefta, and Babylonian Talmud. (There is no Jerusalem Talmud to the whole order of Kodashim.) In manuscripts of the Mishnah (Mss. Kaufmann, Cambridge, etc.) and the… …
70KALLAH, MONTHS OF — KALLAH, MONTHS OF, a term for the months of Elul and Adar when, during the talmudic and geonic eras, large gatherings assembled to study Torah in the Babylonian academies. Many conjectures have been made about the etymology of the word kallah,… …
