Gittin (
Hebrew
Hebrew (; ''ʿÎbrit'') is a Northwest Semitic languages, Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family. A regional dialect of the Canaanite languages, it was natively spoken by the Israelites and ...
: ) is a
tractate of the
Mishnah
The Mishnah or the Mishna (; , from the verb ''šānā'', "to study and review", also "secondary") is the first written collection of the Jewish oral traditions that are known as the Oral Torah. Having been collected in the 3rd century CE, it is ...
and the
Talmud
The Talmud (; ) is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law (''halakha'') and Jewish theology. Until the advent of Haskalah#Effects, modernity, in nearly all Jewish communities, the Talmud was the cen ...
, and is part of the order of
Nashim. The content of the tractate primarily deals with the legal provisions related to
halakhic divorce
Divorce (also known as dissolution of marriage) is the process of terminating a marriage or marital union. Divorce usually entails the canceling or reorganising of the legal duties and responsibilities of marriage, thus dissolving the M ...
, in particular, the laws relating to the
''Get'' (divorce document), although the tractate contains a number of other social provisions which are only vaguely related to that subject. The tractate also contains numerous historical references relating to the time of the
Jewish-Roman wars-Roman war and the destruction of the Temple as well as the
Jewish uprising. The laws of the divorce itself, including when a divorce is permitted or even required, are discussed in other tractates, namely
Ketubot.
The word ''get'' (
Hebrew
Hebrew (; ''ʿÎbrit'') is a Northwest Semitic languages, Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family. A regional dialect of the Canaanite languages, it was natively spoken by the Israelites and ...
: ) is thought to be an
Akkadian word and generally refers to a written document.
[The Recent Study of Hebrew: A Survey of the Literature with Selected Bibliography, Nahum M. Waldman, Eisenbrauns, 1989]
See also
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Get (divorce document)
A , ghet, or ''gett'' (; , plural ) is a document in Jewish religious law which effectuates a divorce between a Jewish couple. The term is also used to refer to the divorce itself. The ''get'' is a 12-line document written in Aramaic. The r ...
References
External links
Mishnah Gittin text in Hebrew Full Hebrew and English text of the Mishnah for tractate Gittin
on Sefaria
Full Hebrew and English text of the Talmud Bavli for tractate Gittin
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Full Hebrew text of the Talmud Yerushalmi for tractate Gittin
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Full Hebrew text of the Tosefta for tractate Gittin
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Mishnah
Divorce in Judaism
Tractates of the Talmud
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