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Babylonian Talmud. Tractate Gitin

Book from the collection of the Przypkowski Museum in Jędrzejów. Hebrew print, ed. Wdowa i Bracia Romm Printing House, Vilnius 1897, 540 pages. The copy was purchased in 1968. from Jadwiga Szartowska of Kielce.

Original title:

מםכת גיטין מן תלמוד בבלי

[Masechet Gitin min Talmud Bavli].

Tractate Gitin of the Babylonian Talmud.

Publisher's imprint in Russian: ТАЛМУДЪ ВАВИЛОНСКІЙ Гитинъ, О супружескихъ разводахъ. Томь XIII. Съ Вил. Изд. 1886. безъ измѣненій. ВИЛЬНА. Тип. Вдовы и бр. Роммъ. Жмудскій пер. собст. Домъ N 328. 1897

The presence of stamps on the title page and in several other places: "JOSEF BEKERMAN", "M.[ordechaj] BORENSTEIN RABIN w Chęcinach” and "BUCHHANDLUNG M. M. WALDEN, KIELC”.

The Gitin (Divorce Letters) is the sixth tractate of the Nashim (Women), the third order of the Mishnah. The tractate contains nine chapters discussing issues relating to divorce, including the drafting and presentation of a divorce letter.

The Talmud is a collection of religious, doctrinal, and legal teachings of Judaism. It includes commentaries on the Bible, rabbinic discussions, moral guidance, parables, and folklore. It is the second most important book in Judaism after the Hebrew Bible, and its study remains an obligation for every Orthodox Jew. The Talmud consists of two main parts: the Mishnah and the Gemara. The Mishnah is the primary and oldest part, containing the legal norms of Judaism (Hebr.: halacha) finally edited in the 2nd century CE in Hebrew by Yehuda ha-Nasi. The Mishnah consists of six major sections called "Orders": 1. Zeraim (Seeds), 2. Moed (Festival), 3. Nashim (Women), 4. Nezikin (Damages), 5. Kodashim (Holy things), 6. Tohorot (Purities). The Orders are divided into 63 tractates, which are further divided into chapters and paragraphs. The teachings of subsequent generations of rabbis, which expand and explain the content of the Mishnah, make up the second part known as the Gemara, written in Aramaic.

The Gemara was developed in two Jewish centers, in Palestine and Babylon, resulting in two Talmuds. The Palestinian version, known as the Jerusalem Talmud (or Palestinian Talmud), was edited in the 4th century CE The Babylonian version, known as the Babylonian Talmud, was completed around 500 CE The Jerusalem Talmud consists of 39 tractates, while the much larger Babylonian Talmud contains 37 tractates. The first complete printed edition of the Babylonian Talmud was published in Venice in 1520-1523. Since then, both works, along with additional commentaries, have been repeatedly published, reissued, edited, and translated.

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Author / creator
unknown
Object type
form of information
Time of creation / dating
end of the 19th century
Place of creation
Vilnius (Lithuania)
Technique
printing
Material
paper
fabric
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Copyrights status
the object is not protected by copyright law
Owner
Przypkowscy Museum in Jędrzejów
Identification number
B.1951