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  • 71MAKHSHIRIN — (Heb. מַכְשִׁירִין), eighth tractate in the order Tohorot, in the Mishnah and Tosefta. The word makhshirin, the causative hiphil form of kasher ( to be fit ), means those things which render fit, but it is here used in a technical sense. In… …

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  • 72NEDARIM — (Heb. נְדָרִים; Vows ), third tractate of the order Nashim, though in some editions the order varies. It is based upon Numbers 30 and deals mainly with the binding quality   of the spoken vow by means of which a person may forbid the use of… …

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  • 73CEREMONIAL OBJECTS — Oil lamp, provenance unknown, 5th–6th century C.E. Bronze, 10.5 × 9.5 × 17.0 cm. 89.114/1. Schloessinger collection, Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, exhibited at The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Photo © The Israel Museum …

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  • 74SANHEDRIN — (Heb. סַנְהֶדְרִין), fourth tractate in the Mishnah order of Nezikin. The sequence of the tractates within an order being as a rule determined by the size of the tractates, it should be remembered that the three Bavot originally constituted one… …

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  • 75SUKKAH — (Heb. סֻכָּה; booth ), sixth tractate of the order Mo ed in the Mishnah, Tosefta, and Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds. It deals, in five chapters, with laws relating to the festival of sukkot (Tabernacles). The festival is sometimes referred to… …

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  • 76TALMUD, BABYLONIAN — (Heb. תַּלְמוּד בַּבְלִי), a literary work of monumental proportions (5,894 folio pages in the standard printed editions), which draws upon the totality of the spiritual, intellectual, ethical, historical, and legal traditions produced in… …

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  • 77Hebrew calendar — The Hebrew calendar (הלוח העברי ha luach ha ivri), or Jewish calendar, is a lunisolar calendar used today predominantly for Jewish religious observances. It determines the dates for Jewish holidays and the appropriate public reading of Torah… …

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  • 78List of names for the Biblical nameless — This list of names for the Biblically nameless compiles names given in Jewish or Christian mythology for characters who are unnamed in the Bible itself. Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Wives of the antediluvian patriarchs :Source: the apocryphal book… …

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  • 79Masei — Masse redirects here. For the surname, see Massé. For the billiards technique, see Massé. Masei, Mas’ei, or Masse (מַסְעֵי Hebrew for “journeys,” the second word, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah) is the 43rd weekly Torah portion… …

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  • 80Fast of the Firstborn — Infobox Holiday caption = J. M. W. Turner s depiction of the Plague of the Firstborn ( The Tenth Plague of Egypt , 1802) holiday name = Fast of the firstborn official name = Hebrew: תענית בכורות ( Ta anit B chorot ) or תענית בכורים ( Ta anit B… …

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