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Tractate signifies a treatise: see Noteworthy treatises . Latin Tractatus appears in numerous titles: see Tractatus (disambiguation) . Hebrew tractates are sections of the Talmud dealing with specific subjects: see Mishnah . Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists Talmud articles associated with the title Tractate . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Note: This page may need to be cleaned up to meet Wikipedia's quality standards . Further information might be found on the talk page .1
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The opening as it stood in 2010
Tractate signifies a treatise: see Noteworthy treatises . Latin Tractatus appears in numerous titles: see Tractatus . Hebrew tractates are sections of the Talmud dealing with specific subjects: see Mishnah . Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists Talmud articles associated with the title Tractate . If an internal link incorrectly led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
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One of the tractates of the Babylonian or Jerusalem Talmud A masekhet ( , Sephardic: / m ɑː ˈ s ɛ x ɛ t / , Ashkenazic: / m ɑː ˈ s ɛ x ɛ s / ; plural massekhtot ) is an organizational element of Talmudic literature that systematically examines a subject, referred to as a tractate in English.
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One of the tractates of the Babylonian or Jerusalem Talmud A masekhet ( , Sephardic : / m ɑː ˈ s ɛ x ɛ t / , Ashkenazic : / m ɑː ˈ s ɛ x ɛ s / ; plural masekhtot מַסֶּכְתּוֹת ) is an organizational element of Talmudic literature that systematically examines a subject, referred to as a tractate in English. A tractate/ masekhet consists of chapters ( perakim ; singular: פרק perek or pereq ).
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One of the tractates of the Mishnah or Babylonian or Jerusalem Talmud A masekhet ( Hebrew : מַסֶּכֶת , Sephardic : / m ɑː ˈ s ɛ x ɛ t / , Ashkenazic : / m ɑː ˈ s ɛ x ɛ s / ; plural masekhtot מַסֶּכְתּוֹת ) is an organizational element of Talmudic literature that systematically examines a subject.In English it is often referred to as simply a tractate , though this can refer to treatises outside the Talmud as well. A tractate/ masekhet consists of chapters ( perakim ; singular: פרק perek or pereq ).
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sections of the talmud dealing with specific subjects
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organizational element of talmudic chapters
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