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# sanhedrin

«sanhedrin» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **The highest court and council of the Jewish people in…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

The highest court and council of the Jewish people in ancient times, made up of seventy-one sages. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sanhedrin/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: The Talmud has a tractate named Sanhedrin about courts and law. The passage cited is used to claim that sages could create a calf by using the Sefer Yetzirah.

### examples

- Some maintain that this essay is mentioned in the Talmud treatise Sanhedrin, p. 66 b. and ibid. 67 b. which passage is according to the commentary of Rashi, to treatise Erubin, p. 63 a., a reliable historical notice. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sanhedrin/#x1)

### note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sanhedrin» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sanhedrin/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.