A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature/כריתות - כרך
75b, v. שפך. - 2) divorce by means of a deed (כריתות ספר). Gitt. 10b נינהו כ׳ בני לאו והא but they (the gentiles) are not subject to the Jewish mode of divorce (how, then, can they act as judges in divorce cases)-- 3) (sub. ברית) the making of a covenant. -- Pl. כריתות. Tosef. Sot. VIII, 10; 11 ed. Zuck., v. ברית. -- 4) v=כרת excision. Macc. III, 15, v. כרת. -- Pl. בריתות v. כרת. - 5) decision. Pl. as ab. Midr. Till. to Ps. III (ref. to כרתי, IISam. XV, 18) כ׳ כורתי (ed. Bub. בריתות) those who pass (final) decisions.
כריתות f. (b. h. כריתת; preced.) final divorce. Sifre Deut. 269 (ref. to Deut. XXIV, 1) אין . ... מכאן כורת שיהא כ׳ זה he must make the thing final, from this we derive that if a man says, this is thy letter of divorce under the condition that thou wilt never go . .m .v ., this is no final (valid) divorce; Gitt. 83b. Tosef. ib. IX (VII), 1; a. fr. -- Gitt. l. c.; ib. 21b; Succ. 24b, a. e. כ׳ כרת the legal deduc- tion from the use of the word כריתות (Deut, l. c.) where the word כרת might have been used.
כריתינון, v. כרתינון.
כריתית, v. כריסית.
כרך (cmp. כרה) to encircle, twine around, embrace, wrap. Men. 39a רובה שכ׳ תכלת a fringe the larger portion of which he twined together (v. תכלת). Ib. שיכרוך כדי וכ׳ וישנה enough to twine around three times. Yoma 38a כרכה embraced it (clung to the bronze door). Sabb. 133b נאין בשיראין וכרכהו Ms. M. (ed. וכורכו) and twine hand- some ribbons around it. Pes. 115a; Zeb. 79a וכ׳ כורכן היה used to wrap them together (insert the Passover meat and the bitter herb between the Matsah). Ab. Zar. 18a וכ׳ בסת כרכוהו they wrapped him in a scroll of the Law and burned him. Tosef.Meg.IV (III), 20 וכ׳ כורכיתורה you may wrap the Pentateuch in covers intended for &c.; (Meg. 27a נוללין); a. fr. -- Pes. IV, 8; Tosef. ib. II (III), 19 שמע את כורכין they recited the confession of faith (Deut. VI, 4 sq.) in one לרך, without the proper pauses (or with- out inserting 'Blessed be the Name of His glorious king- dom &c.' between verses 4 and 5), v. Pes. 56a, a. Y. ib. IV, 31b. - Part. pass. כרוך, f. כרוכה; ppl. כרוכים, כרוכין; כרוכות twined around, wrapped up; trnsf. (with אחר) clinging to, running after. Ber. V, 1וכ כ׳ נחש אפי׳ even if a serpent is wound around his heel, he must not interrupt his prayer, v. כריכה. Kidd. 66a וכ׳ ומונהת כ׳ הרי behold it (the Law) is wrapped up and lies in the corner, whoever wishes may study it. Gen. R. s. 78 מהלך אני כ׳ בפנים I shall walk with my face wrapped up (in humility). -- Hull. 78b (expl. Lev. XXII, 28) אחריו כ׳ שבנו מי that animal to whom the young clings (the mother). Sabb. 52a כרוכין with the chain or halter twined around them, opp. נמשכין led by the chain &c. Hull. 59b כרוכות (קרנים) horns the layers of which encircle one another. Ex. R. s. 33 בזה זה כ׳ היו their bodies were twisted around each other; a. e. Nif. נכרך to be twined around; to be wrapped up. Y. Ter. VII, 46b bot. בסדינ המת יכרך shall the dead be wrapped up in his sheet?, i.. e. shall that man be abandoned to his fate? -- Yoma 69a וכ׳ תכרך שמא lest one thread wind itself arout d (stick to) his body. Pi. כרך, כי׳; Hif. הכריך to wind around, wrap. Ab. d'R. N. ch. III, beg. וכ׳ סמרטוטין המכריך he who ties a. bandage over his eyes (pretending blindness) &c. Men. 39a וכ׳ בה כי׳ לא אפי׳ even if he formed only one link by winding the twine around. Y. Hag. III, 79a top ויכרכינה ויטבילה בסיב let him wrap bast around it and so immerse it; ib. II, end, 78c (corr. acc.). Tosef. Kel. B. Mets. IX, 6 וכ׳ בו מכרך שהוא which one twines around the couch. Ib. מכריך. -- Part. pass. מכורך, pl. מכורכין. Lev. R. s. 35 וכ׳ מכ׳ ניתנו . . . הסייף (Sifre Deut. 40 כרוכים) the sword and the book have been handed from heaven wrapped up together; a. e. -- l[Tosef. Kel. B. Mets. VI, 1, v. כרכם.]
כרך I, כריך, כרוך ch. 1) same. Targ. Job XXXI. 36, v. כבן. Targ. Pro . VI, 21. Targ. IKings XIX, 13; a. fr. (interch. in ed. with Pa.). -- Taan. 22a top כרכינהוו לצפרא וכ׳ (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note) in the morning they rolled the mattresses up and carried them off. Yoma 78b; Yeb. 102b וכ׳ סודרא כריך tied a cloth around his legs. Sabb. 110a וכ׳ דכרכיה מאן האי he around whom a serpent has twined itself. B. Bath. 14b לכרכיה ליה ומנח פורתא ביה דכ׳ לעיל Ms. I. (ed. לעיל וכרכיה פורתאא . . . , v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 40) he rolled up a small portion (of the scroll) and placed that rolled portion on top (of the scroll). Ab. Zar. 18b כרכתיה she embraced him; a. fr. -- Part. pass. כריך. Y. Ter. VIII, 45d top עליה כ׳ wound around it. -- Esp. כ׳ ריפתא to double the bread, placing salt, herbs &c. between (v. preced.), in gen. ר׳ כ׳ (or sub. ר׳) to begin a meal, to dine. Targ. Y. IDeut. XXXII, 50 ר׳ למכרך. . ובעו and the guests were about beginnin g to eat. --- Ber. 22b ר׳ כרוכח sat down tto dine together. Taan. 23b איתו . . . ר׳ וכ׳ יתיב כרוכו he sat down to eat and did not say to the scholars, come eat with us; Y. ib. I, 64b bot., sq. כריכין אתון (corr. acc.. -Trnsf. ותני כרוך combine the two versions into one. Sabb. 34b. Men. 87a. - 2) to surround, fortify. Targ. Jer. LI, 53. -- Part. pass. כריך, . כריכא, כריכתא; pl. כריכין, כריכיא; כריכן, כריכתא. Targ. Is. II, 15. 1b. XXVII, 10. Targ. Ps. XXXI, 3; 22. Targ. O. Deut. III, 5; a. fr. - [V. כריכא.] Pa. כריך 1) same, v. supra. - 2) to turn around. Targ. Prov. XXVI, 14 (h. text סבב). - Sabb. 129a, v. זיקא I. Ithpe. אכריך 1) to be wrapped up. Targ. Esth. VIII, 15 מיכריךוכ׳ cloihed in &c. (h. textתכריך). Koh. R. to VIII, 11; IX, 10 מיכרך ורישיה wwith his head wrapped up (in mourn- ing). Sabb. 110b ביה גנא איכרך he wrapped himself up in the cloak and lept in it. -- Trnsf. to attach one's self. Keth. 7b וכ׳ איכרכת מי hast thou mingled with gonorrhoe- ists &c. ? Ib. בהו א׳ mingled with them.
כרך m. (preced. wds.) 1) twining. Men. 39a כ׳ של חוט the thread which is used for twining (v. תכלת). -- 2) roll, volume (of a book). B. Mets. 29b אחד בכ׳ קורין ג׳ יהיו ולא Ms. M. (differ. in ed.) three persons must not read to- gether in one volume (of a book held in trust by the finder). -- 3) bundle; trnsf. a combined action; אחד בכ׳ simultaneously; without intermission. Ib. 37a שהפקידו כמי א׳ בכ׳ לו as if they had entrusted their money to him by one act (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 0), opp. to כריכות שני.