Sacred Texts Judaism Index Previous Next
Buy this Book at Amazon.com
Eighteen Treatises from the Mishna, by D. A. Sola and M. J. Raphall, [1843], at sacred-texts.com
_________
_________
_________
[The above Treatises contain civil laws. They are called "Gates," because, in the East, justice is administered in the city gates.]
_________
[Contains ceremonial laws. It also treats of the institution of the municipal and provincial Sanhedrin, and of the great Bethdin, or Sanhedrin at Jerusalem; whence its name.]
_________
[Treats of corporeal punishments; also, of false witnesses, and of the involuntary homicide, and the cities of refuge.]
_________
[Contains precepts for the administration of oaths.]
[Is so called because it consists of laws which tried and trustworthy teachers attested to have been adopted by the elder teachers, in Sanhedrin assembled.]
_________
[Contains laws relating to idolatry, heresy, and the enticers or seducers to either.]
_________
[Contains moral precepts, maxims, and apothegms, of the elder, or Mishnic teachings.]
_________
[Treats of such errors in judgment committed by the great Sanhedrin as require a sin-offering. Vide Lev. iv. 13–21, and 22–26.]
Which closes the Seder Nezekin.
=============================
[Having laws relating to sacrifices generally.]
_________
[Containing laws relating to offerings of flour.]