- Look up
tractate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Tractate, a
written work
dealing formally and
systematically with a subject, may
refer to: Masekhet...
-
tractates of
Seder Nezikin (a
section of the
Talmud that
deals with damages, i.e.
civil and
criminal proceedings). It
originally formed one
tractate with...
- lit. "Blessings") is the
first tractate of
Seder Zeraim ("Order of Seeds") of the
Mishnah and of the Talmud. The
tractate discusses the
rules of prayers...
- of the Fathers.
Pirkei Avot
consists of the
Mishnaic tractate of Avot, the second-to-last
tractate in the
order of
Nezikin in the Mishnah, plus one additional...
-
ninth tractate of
Seder Zeraim, the
Order of Seeds. It
discusses the laws of the
dough offering,
known in
Hebrew as challah. Like most of the
tractates in...
- Kil'ayim (Hebrew: כִּלְאַיִם, lit. "Mixed Kinds") is the
fourth tractate of
Seder Zeraim ("Order of Seeds") of the Mishnah,
dealing with
several biblical...
- “The
Tractate Middoth” is a
short ghost story by
British author M. R. James. It was
published in 1911 in More
Ghost Stories, James's
second collection...
-
Gittin (Hebrew: גיטין) is a
tractate of the
Mishnah and the Talmud, and is part of the
order of Nashim. The
content of the
tractate primarily deals with the...
- The
Tripartite Tractate is a
Valentinian Gnostic work. The date is
estimated to the
second half of the
third century or the
fourth century but is "most...
- name of a
tractate of the Talmud,
located in Nezikin, the
fourth Order of the
Talmud dealing with damages. The main
topic of the
tractate is laws pertaining...
