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The main importance of the "Tractate" lay in the doctrine that the state has full rights over the individual, except in relation to freedom of thought and free expression of thought.
Chapters on Jewish Literature Israel Abrahams 1891
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Spinoza's "Tractate" alike insist on the natural right of men to think freely.
Chapters on Jewish Literature Israel Abrahams 1891
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Milton seemed to like the work of teaching, and it was during this period that his "Tractate" was written.
History of Education Levi Seeley 1887
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Perhaps open the Talmud, Tractate Sabbath where your laws are located -- though even the rabbis denied you your own independent space in the Talmud read your books of apocrypha and Josephus's account.
Joe Winkler: A Love Letter To Hanukkah Joe Winkler 2011
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Of course, there is the more familiar story in the Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Shabbat 21b, telling us of the priests entering the Temple precincts and finding but one cruse of holy oil marked with the seal of the High Priest and miraculous eight-day flame in the menorah.
Rabbi Barry A. Kenter: Hanukkah: Not Quite The Jewish Christmas Rabbi Barry A. Kenter 2011
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From תלמוד בבלי ברכות ו א (Talmud Bavli Tractate Berakhot, 6a):
Boing Boing 2009
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Talmud Yerushalmi (Jerusalem) Tractate Niddah (48d – 51b of the Venice edition 1523 – 1524) has fully developed discussions for the first two chapters and most of the third chapter.
Niddah, Tractate. leBeit Yoreh 2009
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Chapter 10 of Tractate Niddah deals with questions about the possibility that hymeneal blood may actually be menstrual blood or contaminated with menstrual blood.
Female Purity (Niddah). leBeit Yoreh 2009
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Tractate Kinnim (“nest” or “birds in a nest”), the last tractate in Order Kodashim, deals with the smallest type of sacrifice, a pair of turtledoves or young pigeons — one nest, hence the title.
Kinnim (Tractate). 2009
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Tractate Kinnim differs in this respect; most of its halakhic examples are in the feminine.
Kinnim (Tractate). 2009
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