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Beth Shammai

American  
[bet shah-mahy] / ˈbɛt ʃɑˈmaɪ /

noun

Hebrew.

  1. the school of Jewish legal thought and hermeneutics founded in Jerusalem in the 1st century b.c. by the Jewish teacher Shammai and characterized by an austere or rigid interpretation of Jewish law and tradition.

Etymology

Origin of Beth Shammai

bēth Shammai literally, house of Shammai

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