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Encyclopedia of Religion entry forChagigaThe title of one of the Jewish tractates or treatises which reproduce the oral tradition or unwritten law as developed by the second century A.D. and are included in the Mishnah (q.v.), a collection and compilation completed by Rabbi Judah the Holy, or the Patriarch, about 200 A.D. The sixty-three tractates of the Mishnah are divided into six groups or orders (sedarim). Chagiga is the twelfth tractate of the second group, which is called Mo‘ed (" Festival "). citations: Encyc. of Rel., Canney
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