Hagigah or Chagigah (Hebrew: חֲגִיגָה, romanized: Ḥəḡiḡā, lit. 'Celebration, Festival') is one of the tractates comprising Moed, one of the six orders of the Mishnah, a collection of Jewish traditions included in the Talmud. It deals with the Three Pilgrimage Festivals of Passover, Shavuot, and Sukkot and the pilgrimage offering that men were supposed to bring to the Temple in Jerusalem. In the middle of the second chapter, the text discusses topics of ritual purity.
The tractate contains three chapters,[1] spanning 27 pages in the Vilna Edition Shas of the Babylonian Talmud, making it relatively short. The second chapter contains much early aggadah, discussing the Genesis creation narrative and early merkabah mysticism. Its content is relatively light and uncomplicated except for the third chapter.
References
- ^ "Tractate Hagiga: Synopsis of Subjects". Jewish Virtual Library. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
External links
- Mishnah Chagigah text in Hebrew
- Full Hebrew and English text of the Mishnah for tractate Chagigah on Sefaria
- Full Hebrew and English text of the Talmud Bavli for tractate Chagigah on Sefaria
- Full Hebrew and English text of the Talmud Yerushalmi for tractate Chagigah on Sefaria
- Full Hebrew text of the Tosefta for tractate Chagigah on Sefaria
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