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Then they went on to another tractate, fought over another passage, and this time Reb Saunders agreed, his face glowing, that his son was correct.

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AT 3AM, a thousand young men are all poring over the same page in the Babylonian Talmud tractate of Kiddushin, which deals with definitions of matrimony in ancient rabbinical law.

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It is further divided into 63 parts, or tractates, which are broken down into 517 chapters.

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Ten months later Seneca wrote his tractate on Clemency.

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If Mr. Murray does not sell ten or twenty thousand copies of this amusing tractate, we shall be greatly deceived.

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