SHAS

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Example Sentences

  • "Former Sephardic Chief Rabbi Rav Ovadiah Yosef founded Shas in 1984 with its own Council of Torah Sages." (source)

  • "In Rav Chaim Kanievsky’s letter – read in his presence during his recent, historic visit to the Yeshiva – he mentioned that while it is wonderful that so many are learning the masechtos of Nashim and Nezikin, there is a need to know Shas in its entirety." (source)

  • "What? His father-in-law didn't buy him a Shas for his wedding present?" (Glinert)

  • "The first-year students learn Shas and Chumash-Rashi." (Glinert)

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Languages of Origin

  • Textual Hebrew

Etymology

  • ש״ס acronym of ששה סדרים shishah sedarim 'six orders', referring to the six sections of the Talmud

      • Who Uses This

      • Religious: Jews who are engaged in religious observance and have some Jewish education

      Regions

      • North America

      Dictionaries

      • The JPS Dictionary of Jewish Words, by Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic, (Philadelphia, 2001).
      • The Joys of Hebrew, by Lewis Glinert (New York, 1992).
      • Dictionary of Jewish Usage: A Popular Guide to the Use of Jewish Terms, by Sol Steinmetz (Lanham, MD, 2005).

      Alternative Spellings

      Shas

Notes

  • "The Hebrew acronym ש״ס first appeared in the late 1500s in the Basel editions of the Talmud, which was objected to by the Swiss censors." (Steinmetz)

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