Sentences with word «tractate»
The bit about the change of garments and the bathhouse is talmudic phraseology from tractate Eruvin (27b), indicating a matter....
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When Christian people obey the admonition in the New Testament tractate called Hebrews that they are «not to forsake the gathering of themselves together», they come to engage in a corporate act or «liturgy.»
The bit about the change of garments and the bathhouse is talmudic phraseology from tractate Eruvin (27b), indicating a matter urgently in need of clarification.
During the course of his provocative essay «The Virtue of Hate» (February), Rabbi Meir Soloveichik refers to the Mishnaic tractate Ethics of the Fathers.
«Porn and the Threat to Virility» recently hit the stands not in the form of a religious tractate, but on the cover of Time.
The Jewish Talmud, in the Mikva'ot tractate, states that when a Gentile wishes to become a Jew, he must be instructed according to the 613 commandments of the Torah, must be circumscribed, and must go through a Mikvah, that is, be baptized.
The BABYLONIAN TALMUD, tractate Bava Basra (Batra) asks the question.
Niederwimmer offers several considerations for concluding that the Didache version is not dependent on the Gospels, but was added to the traditional «Two Ways» tractate (which seems to have spoken only of the commandment to love God) when the Didache was compiled.»
It is a pity that he didn't heed an important exhortation from that tractate: «O learned ones, do be careful with your words!»
The tractate so called gives instruction in Christian morals and ecclesiastical practice.
Zeraim («Seeds»), dealing with prayer and blessings, tithes and agricultural laws (11 tractates) 2.
Kodashim («Holy things»), regarding sacrificial rites, the Temple, and the dietary laws (11 tractates) and 6.
Nashim («Women»), concerning marriage and divorce, some forms of oaths and the laws of the nazirite (7 tractates) 4.
Tohorot («Purities»), pertaining to the laws of purity and impurity, including the impurity of the dead, the laws of food purity and bodily purity (12 tractates).
Moed («Festival»), pertaining to the laws of the Sabbath and the Festivals (12 tractates) 3.
In the traditions of the rabbis of Judaism codified in the Mishnah about A.D. 200, there is a tractate called «Yoma» which adds details to the development of the celebration of Yom Kippur.
The goat, according to practice detailed in the tractate of the Mishnah, is then taken to a place called Zok, about twelve miles from Jerusalem.