Challah (tractate)
Tractate of the Talmud | |
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English: | Dough offering |
Seder: | Zeraim |
Number of Mishnahs: | 38 |
Chapters: | 4 |
Babylonian Talmud pages: | - |
Jerusalem Talmud pages: | 28 |
Tosefta chapters: | 2 |
Challah (Hebrew: חלה, romanized: ḥallah, literally "Loaf") is the ninth tractate of Seder Zeraim, the Order of Seeds. It discusses the laws of the dough offering, known in Hebrew as challah.
Like most of the tractates in Zeraim, it appears only in the
The location of the tractate in Seder Zera'im
According to
Contents
There are 38 mishnayot in tractate Challah. They are divided into four chapters as follows:
- חֲמִשָּׁה דְּבָרִים "Five species" (Nine mishnayot)[a] - what dough is required for Challah
- פֵּרוֹת "Produce" (Eight mishnayot) - How to separate the challah.
- אוֹכְלִין "One may snack" (ten mishnayot) - Laws of embezzlement of challah
- שְׁתֵּי נָשִׁים "Two women" - (eleven mishnayot) - the combination of dough and the laws of giving to a priest.
Commentaries on the tractate
Unlike other tractates in the order of Zeraim, a number of essays were written on the tractate Challah. This is due to the fact that the mitzvah of dough offering is also practiced outside of Israel and during exile. In addition to the commentaries on the Mishnah, the Jerusalem Talmud and the Maimonides' rulings, Nachmanides wrote Halachot (like the rulings of Isaac Alfasi for the rest of the tractates), followed by Shlomo ibn Aderet and Asher ben Jehiel. A special place is given Yom Tov Algazi's commentary on the Hilchot Challah of Nachmanides.
In addition, the
See also
- Challa (disambiguation page)
External links
- Full text of the Mishnah for tractate Challah on Sefaria (Hebrew and English)
Notes
- Kehati. In other prints there may be a different division.
References
- ^ "Rambam Introduction to the Mishnah 15:25". www.sefaria.org.