Chagigahn.
/həˈɡiːɡə/ The voluntary sacrifices offered at the three great feasts, Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles.
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Chagigah1846
1846 ‘G. Eliot’ tr. D. F. Strauss Life Jesus III. 144 It [sc. the entering of a Gentile house in the morning] would have been such [sc. a disqualification] for the partaking of the Chagiga, which was eaten in the afternoon.
1891 A. W. Streane (title) A translation of the treatise Chagigah from the Babylonian Talmud.
1933 H. Danby tr. Mishnah ii. 211 Hagigah (‘The Festal-Offering’)... The principal subject is the manner of fulfilment of Deut. 1616.
1966 R. J. Werblowsky & G. Wigoder Encycl. Jewish Relig. (1967) 167/2 Ḥagigah,..last tractate in the Mishnah order MOED. It deals with the festival duties, pilgrimage to Jerusalem, rejoicing, and the ḥ-offering.
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