* Er., Hebrew abbreviation for ' Eruvin, the second tractate of Moed

Within Talmudic literature, Jewish law is divided into the six orders of the Mishnah, which are categories by proximate subject matter: Zeraim (" Seeds ") for agricultural laws and prayer, Moed (" Festival "), for the Sabbath and the Festivals, Nashim (" Women "), dealing primarily with marriage and divorce, Nezikin (" Damages "), for civil and criminal law, Kodashim (" Holy things "), for sacrifices and the dietary laws, and Tohorot (" Purities ") for ritual purity.

The orders and their subjects are: Zeraim (" Seeds "), dealing with prayer and blessings, tithes and agricultural laws ( 11 tractates ), Moed (" Festival "), pertaining to the laws of the Sabbath and the Festivals ( 12 tractates ), Nashim (" Women "), concerning marriage and divorce, some forms of oaths and the laws of the nazirite ( 7 tractates ), Nezikin (" Damages "), dealing with civil and criminal law, the functioning of the courts and oaths ( 10 tractates ), Kodashim (" Holy things "), regarding sacrificial rites, the Temple, and the dietary laws ( 11 tractates ) and Tehorot (" 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 )

Yoma contains a detailed discussion of the offerings and Temple ritual on Yom Kippur ( Day of Atonement ), and there are sections in seder Moed ( Festivals ) for the special offerings and Temple ritual for other major Jewish holidays.

Sefer ha-Halachot ( ספר ההלכות ; also referred to as " the Hilchot of the Rif ") extracts all the pertinent legal decisions from the three Talmudic orders Moed, Nashim and Nezikin as well as the tractates of Berachot and Chulin-24 tractates in all.

The story of Hanukkah, along with its laws and customs, is entirely missing from the Mishna apart from several passing references ( Bikkurim 1: 6, Rosh HaShanah 1: 3, Taanit 2: 10, Megillah 3: 4 and 3: 6, Moed Katan 3: 9, and Bava Kama 6: 6 ).

( It is permitted to study the laws of mourning, as well as that material which may be studied on Tisha B ' Av, including Job, Lamentations, portions of Jeremiah and the third chapter of Talmud tractate Moed Katan.

It is the eighth tractate of the order Moed.

Of the six orders of the Mishna, Moed is the third shortest.

The Order's motto is Voor Moed, Beleid en Trouw ( For Bravery, Leadership and Loyalty ).

Some further fragments have been recovered from the Cairo Genizah and are published in B. M. Levin's Otzar ha-Geonim, and there is now an edition published by Vagshal covering tractate Berachot and order Moed, which also includes the Sefer ha-Mafteaḥ of his colleague Nissim Gaon.

There is no restriction about the timing, other than the unveiling cannot be held during certain periods such as Passover or Chol Ha ' Moed.

" Your times " refers to Moed ( Festival ).

In Hebrew the book is called Divrei Hayyamim ( i. e. " the matters the days "), based on the phrases sefer divrei ha-yamim le-malkhei Yehudah and " sefer divrei ha-yamim le-malkhei Israel " (" book of the days of the kings of Judah " and " book of the days of the kings of Israel "), both of which appear repeatedly in the Books of Kings.

The Book of Esther is a book in the Ketuvim (" writings "), the third section of the Jewish Tanakh ( the Hebrew Bible ) and is part of the Christian Old Testament.

The original Hebrew title of the book of Proverbs is " Míshlê Shlomoh " (" Proverbs of Solomon ").

The Hebrew shalom, the Arabic salām and the Amharic selam (" peace ") are also cognates, derived from Proto-Semitic * šalām -.

What began with rules (" canons ") adopted by the Apostles at the Council of Jerusalem in the first century has developed into a highly complex legal system encapsulating not just norms of the New Testament, but some elements of the Hebrew ( Old Testament ), Roman, Visigothic, Saxon, and Celtic legal traditions.

The word Dogziyin (" Druzes ") occurs in an early Hebrew edition of his travels, but it is clear that this is a scribal error.

This statement was likely picked up by the author of the Estoire Merlin, or Vulgate Merlin, where the author ( who was fond of fanciful folk etymologies ) asserts that Escalibor " is a Hebrew name which means in French ' cuts iron, steel, and wood '" (" c ' est non Ebrieu qui dist en franchois trenche fer & achier et fust "; note that the word for " steel " here, achier, also means " blade " or " sword " and comes from medieval Latin aciarium, a derivative of acies " sharp ", so there is no direct connection with Latin chalybs in this etymology ).

Hoschander alternatively suggested Ishtar-udda-sha (" Ishtar is her light ") as the origin with the possibility of-udda-sha being connected with the similarly sounding Hebrew name Hadassah.

In view of the meaning of the Hebrew root (" gather, assemble, convene ") one might opt for the translation " Speaker ".

In medieval Hebrew ( e. g. Sefer Yosippon ) Hassidim (" the pious ones ") replaces " Essenes ".

The word may derive from the word " jabber " (" to talk nonsense "), with the "- ish " suffix to signify a language ; alternatively, the term gibberish may derive from the eclectic mix of English, Spanish, Hebrew, Hindi and Arabic spoken in the British territory of Gibraltar ( from Arabic Gabal-Tariq, meaning Mountain of Tariq ), which is unintelligible to non-natives.

The best-known example of Gematria is the Hebrew word Chai (" life "), which is composed of two letters which ( using the assignments in the Mispar gadol table shown below ) add up to 18.

(" Faith " in the context of Genesis and the Hebrew bible means agreement to the promissory relationship, not a body of belief ).

In Hebrew there are two common ways of writing the year number: with the thousands, called (" major era "), and without the thousands, called (" minor era ").

According to the Talmud ( Tractate Makot ), there are 613 mitzvot (" commandments ") in the Torah ; in Hebrew these are known as the Taryag mitzvot תרי " ג מצוות.

The generic Hebrew word for any kind of sin is aveira (" transgression ").

The Karaites (" Scripturalists ") accept only the Hebrew Bible and what they view as the Peshat (" simple " meaning ); they do not accept non-biblical writings as authoritative.

It promotes the concept there is a shared intersection of values based on the Hebrew Bible (" Torah "), brought into our culture by the founding generations of Biblically oriented Protestants, that is fundamental to American history, cultural identity, and institutions.

" The differing interpretations depend on whether the Hebrew word ha-gadol (" the elder ") is taken as grammatically referring to Japheth, or Shem.

The Mourners ', Rabbis ' and Complete Kaddish end with a supplication for peace (" Oseh Shalom ..."), which is in Hebrew, and is somewhat similar to the Bible.

For example, in the Hebrew construct-state form bēt, meaning " the house of ", the middle letter " י " in the spelling בית acts as a vowel, whereas in the corresponding absolute-state form bayit (" house "), which is spelled the same, the same letter represents a genuine consonant.

The phenomenon is not limited to English, with examples cited by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, in the Hebrew song Háva Nagíla (" Let's Be Happy "), and in Bollywood movies.

Shmura (" guarded ") matzah ( Hebrew מ ַ צ ָּ ה ש ְׁ מו ּ ר ָ ה maṣṣā šəmūrā ) is made from grain that has been under special supervision from the time it was harvested to ensure that no fermentation has occurred, and that it is suitable for eating on the first night of Passover.

In the early period of Hebrew history, pilgrims traveled to Shiloh, Dan, Bethel, and eventually Jerusalem, see also Three Pilgrimage Festivals, a practice followed by other Abrahamic religions.

Saadia Gaon, in Emunoth ve-Deoth ( Hebrew: " beliefs and opinions ") concludes Section VI with a refutation of the doctrine of metempsychosis ( reincarnation ).

The Book of Numbers ( from Greek Ἀριθμοί, Arithmoi ;, Bəmidbar, " In the desert ") is the fourth book of the Hebrew Bible, and the fourth of five books of the Jewish Torah.

The Book of Ruth (; Sephardic, Israeli Hebrew: ; Ashkenazi Hebrew: ; Biblical Hebrew: Megilath Ruth " the Scroll of Ruth ") is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible, Tanakh, or Old Testament.

This work ( also known as " Megillat HaHasmonaim ", " Megillat Hanukkah " or " Megillat Yevanit ") is in both Aramaic and Hebrew ; the Hebrew version is a literal translation from the Aramaic original.

In publications of 1647 and 1654, Marcus van Boxhorn first described a rigid methodology for historical linguistic comparisons and proposed the existence of an Indo-European proto-language ( which he called " Scythian ") unrelated to Hebrew, but ancestral to Germanic, Greek, Romance, Persian, Sanskrit, Slavic, Celtic and Baltic languages.

The Greeks use the word Anagignoskomena ( Ἀναγιγνωσκόμενα " readable, worthy to be read ") to describe the books of the Greek Septuagint that are not present in the Hebrew Tanakh.

The Book of Deuteronomy ( from Greek Δευτερονόμιον, Deuteronomion, " second law ";, Devarim, " words ") is the fifth book of the Hebrew Bible, and of the Jewish Torah / Pentateuch.

The Book of Ecclesiastes (; Greek: Ἐκκλησιαστής ), originally called Qoheleth (, literally, " Preacher ") in Hebrew, is a book of the Tanakh's Ketuvim and the Old Testament.

The writer Aleister Crowley distinguished between two main types of egolessness, for which he used the Sanskrit terms Dhyana ( which means " meditation ") and Samadhi ( which he associated with the Nothing, or in Hebrew Ain ).

The tradition that this was the disciple Matthew begins with the early Christian bishop Papias of Hierapolis ( about 100 – 140 AD ), who, in a passage with several ambiguous phrases, wrote: " Matthew collected the oracles ( logia — sayings of or about Jesus ) in the Hebrew language ( Hebraïdi dialektōi — perhaps alternatively " Hebrew style ") and each one interpreted ( hērmēneusen — or " translated ") them as best he could.

The term ruach ha-kodesh ( Hebrew: רוח הקודש, " holy spirit " also transliterated ruah ha-qodesh ) occurs once in Psalm 51: 11 and also twice in the Book of Isaiah Those are the only three times that the precise phrase " ruach hakodesh " is used in the Hebrew Scriptures, although the noun ruach ( רוח, literally " breath " or " wind ") in various combinations, some referring to God's " spirit ", is used often.