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Tractate of the Talmud Tractate Miqwaʾoth ( Hebrew : מקואות, lit. "Pools of Water"; in Talmudic Hebrew: Miqwaʾoth ) is a section of the Mishna discussing the laws pertaining to the building and maintenance of a mikvah , a Jewish ritual bath. Like most of Seder Tohorot , Mikva'ot is present only in its mishnaic form and has no accompanying gemara in either the Babylonian or Jerusalem Talmud . It contains 10 chapters, with 83 paragraphs total.
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The opening as it stood in 2010
"pools of water") is a section of the Mishna discussing the laws pertaining to the building and maintenance of a mikvah , a Jewish ritual bath. Like most of Seder Tohorot , Mikva'ot is present only in its mishnaic form and has no accompanying gemara in either the Babylonian or Jerusalem Talmud .
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The opening as it stood in 2015
"Pools of Water"; in Talmudic Hebrew: Miqwaʾoth ) is a section of the Mishna discussing the laws pertaining to the building and maintenance of a mikvah , a Jewish ritual bath. Like most of Seder Tohorot , Mikva'ot is present only in its mishnaic form and has no accompanying gemara in either the Babylonian or Jerusalem Talmud .
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “section of the mishna discussing the laws pertaining to the building and maintenance of a mikvah”. Today it says “present only in its mishnaic form and has no accompanying gemara in either the babylonian or jerusalem talmud”. Read the current article and compare.
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section of the mishna discussing the laws pertaining to the building and maintenance of a mikvah
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present only in its mishnaic form and has no accompanying gemara in either the babylonian or jerusalem talmud
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