Two months of the year were denoted as yarchei kallah, or "months of the bride" (referring to the Talmud) – the Hebrew months of Adar and Elul.
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The Geonim played a prominent and decisive role in the transmission and teaching of Torah and Jewish law.
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According to Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, the Minor Tractates date from the period of the Geonim.