ABSTRACT
Nashim (Hebrew: “Women”) The third division of the Mishnah, on women and family law, comprising tractates Yebamot (Levirate marriage); Ketubot (marriagecontracts); Nedarim (vows), Nazir (the Nazirite vow), Sotah (the wife accused of adultery), Qiddushin (betrothals); Gittin (writs of divorce). Attention focuses upon the point of disorder marked by the transfer of a woman from the status provided by one man to that provided by another, e.g., from father to husband or, after divorce or the husband’s death, from that husband’s house back to that of the father. See WOMEN.
