Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Haggigah, Venice: Daniel Bomberg, 1521

Folio (13 x 8¾ in.; 330 x 222 mm). collation: 1-3^{8, 46 =30 leaves including final blank; first quire supplied, quire 4 misbound, marginal mends throughout occasionally affecting text, some soiling. Half vellum.}

Vinograd, Venice 42; Habermann 29

Folio (13 x 8¾ in.; 330 x 222 mm). collation: 1-38, 46 =30 leaves including final blank; first quire supplied, quire 4 misbound, marginal mends throughout occasionally affecting text, some soiling. Half vellum.
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Hagigah, the final tractate of the order Mo'ed takes its name from the Korban Hagigah, a sacrifice offered during each of the three pilgrimage festivals, Pesah, Sukkot and Shavu'ot. In addition to the regulations concerning the sacrificial offerings it deals with the laws of ritual purity and impurity connected with sacred objects and the Temple. The tractate is sometimes referred to as Re'iyyah (seeing), an alternative reference to the pilgrimage festivals, derived from the biblical verses commanding that pilgrims "see" the face of the Lord three times in the year (Ex.23:14-17).