tractate

• “Tibble ensconced himself in the innermost corner with a "tractate," borrowed from his friend Lucas, and sent the apprentices to gaze their fill at the rapidly filling circles of seats.”

  The Armourer's Prentices

• “Each seder deals with a certain area (agriculture, marriage, the Temple); each seder is comprised of masechtos (plural of masechah, meaning "tractate"), and each masechah usually deals with a specific issue (marriage, slaves, property).”

  Muslihoon

• “tractate," borrowed from his friend Lucas, and sent the apprentices to gaze their fill at the rapidly filling circles of seats.”

  The Armourer's Prentices

• “In fact the Talmud, in tractate Brachot 26b, states that morning prayers were instituted by Abraham in that very spot of prayerful protest.”

  The Huffington Post: Ari Hart: Holding God Accountable: Faith And Disaster

• “Similarly, the Talmud's treatment of labor relations tractate Baba Metzia is not readily translatable into a simplistic distinction between capitalism and socialism.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Economic Systems, the Bible and a Just Community

• “She herself taught Pirkei Avot (Avot, a tractate in the Mishnah) and frequently sat in on classes being taught by other teachers.”

  Chana Shpitzer.

• “The tractate is full of details of interest in the history of obstetrics, gynecology and sexuality.”

  Niddah, Tractate.

• “The most important textual witness is Antonine, an early Genizah fragment which covers nearly all the tractate (Meacham).”

  Niddah, Tractate.

• “The literary character of the tractate links with a brief item from the time of Rabban Simeon ben Gamliel (first century c.e.).”

  Kinnim (Tractate).

• “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).

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