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Tractate Sanhedrin

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Tractate Sanhedrin, of Seder Nezikin ("Order of Damages"), governs the Jewish judicial system across eleven chapters: the composition and selection of courts, the taking of testimony, and monetary, corporal and capital punishment. Its tenth chapter, known as perek chelek, departs from legal procedure to discuss the World to Come and who forfeits a share in it, a theological excursus embedded inside an otherwise procedural tractate.

Facts
Identity
Parent Work
Talmud (Seder Nezikin) 1
Position in the Canon
Fourth tractate of Seder Nezikin, the Talmud's fourth order. 1
Canonical Reference
Masekhet Sanhedrin 1
Origins
Language
Mishnaic Hebrew and Jewish Babylonian Aramaic 1
Cross-Tradition Connections

Contained In

Talmud, Scriptures & Texts
Source The Mishnah: A New TranslationJacob Neusner, trans.

Originates in Language

Aramaic, Languages
Source The Babylonian TalmudAnonymous (multiple authors)
Hebrew, Languages

The tractate opens with Mishnah, composed in Mishnaic Hebrew; its Gemara, the larger part of the text, is in Aramaic.

Source The MishnahAnonymous (rabbinic compilers)

Related To

Sanhedrin, Organizations
Tractate Shabbat, Scripture Portions
Sources
1. The Mishnah: A New Translation
Jacob Neusner, trans., Yale University Press, 1988Tractate Sanhedrin
The Babylonian Talmud
Anonymous (multiple authors), Soncino Press, 1935on Seder Nezikin and judicial procedureView the Source
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