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Nashim

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions | 1997 | Copyright

Nashim (Heb., ‘women’). The third order of the Jewish Mishnah. Nashim deals with matrimonial law and sexual morality, and also includes the tractates Nedar (Vows) and Nazir (The Nazirite).

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