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Nashim (Hebrew: נשים "Women" or "Wives") is the third order of the Mishnah (also of the Tosefta and Talmud) containing family law. Of the six orders of the Mishnah, it is the shortest.
Nashim consists of seven tractates:[1]
The traditional reasoning for the order of tractates according to Maimonides is as follows:
Both the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds have a Gemara on each of the tractates in the order.
The Six Orders of the Mishnah (שִׁשָּׁה סִדְרֵי מִשְׁנָה)
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