- to as a
tractate in English. A tractate/masekhet
consists of
chapters (
perakim; singular: פרק
perek or pereq). The word
masechet – in its
pausal form...
- not all
tractates have Gemara. Each
tractate is
divided into
chapters (
perakim; singular: perek), 517 in total, that are both
numbered according to the...
- by its author,
Judah Ha-Nasi. Each
masechet is
divided into
chapters (
perakim,
singular perek) and then
paragraphs (mishnayot,
singular mishnah). In...
- ketuvim). Tehillim,
psalms -attributed to King David,
people say
chapters or
perakim, for any occasion,
during prayer or trouble. Selichot,
containing the penitential...
-
Mussar Pele
Yoetz Kav ha-Yashar Kad
HaKemah Madreigat Ha'Adam
Shemonah Perakim The
Geonim are the
rabbis of Sura and
Pumbeditha in
Babylon (650–1250 CE) :...
- Man and his Works.
Oxford University Press.
Feldman RY (2008).
Shemonah Perakim: The
Eight Chapters of the Rambam.
Targum Press. Fox M (1990). Interpreting...
-
Jewish synagogues, who were
charged with
reading and
interpreting the
perakim (chapters),
where the
titles and
chapters of the law and the
prophets are...
- מְצָרְפִין שְׁקָלִים (Metzrfin Shekalim) בִּשְׁלשָׁה פְּרָקִים (Bishlosha
Perakim) הַתְּרוּמָה (Haterumah) אֵלּוּ הֵן הַמְמֻנִּין (Elu Hen Hamemunin) שְלשָׁה...
- on the
civil laws of the Talmud,
divided into "she'arim" (gates) and "
peraḳim" (chapters). In the
preface the
author mentions another work
written by...
-
Pirkei Avoth,
including the
psychological introduction,
entitled "Shemonah
Perakim" (the
Eight Chapters); Maimonides' "Thirteen
articles of faith" (originally...
