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Keritot is a
tractate of the
Mishnah and
Babylonian Talmud. It is the
seventh tractate in the
Order of Kodashim. Its name is the
plural of the punishment...
- such a
transgression generally requires that a sin-offering be brought.
Kerithoth ("Excisions"), the
plural of kareth, is the
seventh tractate of the fifth...
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referred to as
sweet cane, or
sweet flag (the Septuagint, the
Rambam on
Kerithoth 1:1,
Saadia Gaon and
Jonah ibn Janah). This
plant is
known to botanists...
- not from a tree, it does grow from the
ground and that it is a
plant (
Kerithoth 6b).
There is also some
doubt that a
mollusk would have been referred...
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Egyptian Antiquity Yad, Kley
HaMikdash 2:4; cf.
Kerithoth 6a; Rashi; Radak, Sherashim; Saadia;
Rambam on
Kerithoth 1:1 "Ki Tisa".
Archived from the original...
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Standard Bible Encyclopedia: E-J - Page 219
Geoffrey W.
Bromiley - 1995 "
Kerithoth (<Heb. karat, "to cut off") "Genesis 17: Ellicott's
Commentary for English...
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Encyclopaedia Judaica: Antichresis, Asmakhta, Berakhoth, Conditions, Eduyoth,
Kerithoth, Kinnim, Kethuboth, Horayoth, Kiddushin, Me'ila, Middoth, Menachoth, Megillah...
