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gett in colloquial terms refers specifically to a bill of divorce (see Rashi to  Gittin 65b and Maimonides’ commentary to the Mishna  Gittin 2:5), as we shall see below. In Biblical Hebrew, by the way, a bill of divorce is called a  Sefer Kritut (Deut. 24:1-3, Isa. 50:1), literally “Scroll of Cutting.” The Tosafists ( Gittin 2a) cite Rabbeinu Tam as explaining that a bill of divorce contains twelve lines of text because it is called a  gett (GIMMEL-TET), and the  gematria (numeric value) of the word  gett equals twelve. Some authorities understand the Tosafists to also be ...

8 Ways to Celebrate Your Jewish Birthday Tips for making your Jewish birthdays a time of meaning and growth. In addition to the date of birth according to the “regular”, secular calendar, we each have a birthday that corresponds to the Hebrew calendar. ( On Hebrew birthdays, everything we do has a heightened importance. The Talmud describes that when the evil nation Amalek attacked the ancient Israelites, the Jewish people placed fighters whose birthday was that day in the front of the defensive lines; the implication is that their birthdays were a lucky day for the soldiers, and might he...