shas: meaning and definitions

A word formed, with an assistant vowel, from the initial letters of the Hebrew words shisha sedārīm, literally, ‘the six orders,’ the common rabbinical name for the Talmud, which is divided into six principal orders, namely: Zeraim, seed

Moed, holidays

Nashim, women

Nezikin, damages

Kodshim, holy, sanctified things

Taharoth, purification.