Ebel Rabbati

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Ebel Rabbati ( Hebrew אבל רבתי, German roughly: the great [treatise] on mourning ) is a so-called extra - canonical treatise of the Babylonian Talmud and is usually printed in its appendix after the order Nesiqin .

It was written after around 300 and describes in 14 chapters Halachot and customs against the dying, suicidal and executed, mourning and burial customs, loosened up by many example stories.

This treatise is euphemistically also called Semachot ("joys") (in Rashi et al.) .

literature

  • Eisik Hirsch Weiss : dor dor ... , 1871 ff., Vol. II.
  • Moritz Klotz: The Talmudic treatise Ebel Rabbathi or S'machoth , edited from manuscripts and parallel passages , translated and provided with explanatory notes, Itzkowski, Berlin 1890.
  • Hermann L. Strack and Günter Stemberger : Introduction to Talmud and Midrash . 8th edition, Beck, Munich 1992, pp. 227f.