The Routledge Dictionary of Judaism
(Hebrew: “Sabbath”) Mishnah tractate on the observance of the Sabbath. The tractate discusses: general principles of Sabbath observance (chap. 1); preparing for the Sabbath, with special reference to light, food, clothing (chaps. 2–6); prohibited acts of labor on the Sabbath (chaps.
7–15); other taboos associated with the Sabbath, e.g., fire; circumcision on the Sabbath, permitted procedures in connection with food for human beings and beasts, seemly and unseemly behavior on the Sabbath (chaps. 16–24). This material is amplified in the Tosefta and expounded in the Babylonian and Jerusalem versions of the Talmud. See SABBATH.
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