tractate
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“Sofers have always been rabbis. Holy men. As noted in the Talmud, tractate Gittin 45b.”
From Nature • Mar. 28, 2017
One esoteric belief, derived from a passage in the Talmudic tractate Rosh Hashanah, proposes that death from a serious illness may be averted by an eleventh-hour name change.
From Slate • Mar. 10, 2016
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.
From Economist • Jun. 25, 2015
This particular page is the first chapter of the first tractate in the Talmud, named Berakhot or "Blessings".
From BBC • Oct. 29, 2013
Then, slowly, he moved his right hand across the closed Talmud, and his fingers caressed the Hebrew title of the tractate that was stamped into the spine of the binding.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
