tractate

Then they went on to another tractate, fought over another passage, and this time Reb Saunders agreed, his face glowing, that his son was correct.

AT 3AM, a thousand young men are all poring over the same page in the Babylonian Talmud tractate of Kiddushin, which deals with definitions of matrimony in ancient rabbinical law.

This particular page is the first chapter of the first tractate in the Talmud, named Berakhot or "Blessings".

Ten months later Seneca wrote his tractate on Clemency.

If Mr. Murray does not sell ten or twenty thousand copies of this amusing tractate, we shall be greatly deceived.