Hagigah

Chagiga / חגיגה (German, celebration ',' treat ' ) is a treatise of the Mishnah in order Mo'ed ( feasts, feast day ).

Chagiga shall mean a treat also the sacrifice that offered to the three Jewish pilgrimage festivals of Passover, Shavuot and Sukkot and should be eaten in a holy place. The first chapter deals with provisions to address these three festivals. The final chapter of one and the beginning of Chapter two contains aggadisches material and a discussion between the schools of Shammai and Hillel, the question of handrail support on the victim as well as the date of Shavuot. From Mishnah 2.5 to the end of the treatise in the third chapter follow rules for purity and impurity. Clarification and need for regulation was here inasmuch as the pilgrim and his victim were subject during the ascent to and entering the temple special purity requirements. Most of the material is submitted anonymously. It is probably very old pieces of rabbinic tradition.

In the traditional expenditure is the treatise on the 12th and last in the order Mo'ed. In the manuscripts of the eretz - jisra'elischen tradition he stands in 11th place before Moed Qatan. Handwriting Munich brings him in 4th place between Pesachim and Rosh Hashanah. Chagiga contains as Moed Qatan three chapters.

There are treatise also a parallel in the Tosefta under the name Re'ija / ( dt, seeing ' ). Re'ija is the first main word in the treatise, where it designates the one appearing at the festival, with all mature men are required, and the other next to the hard sacrifice ( Chagiga ) visit the victims. There is also a treatise in two Talmuds.