Passover and the Festival of Weeks (_Shebuot_) (17).

(15) A _Baraita_ contains traditions and opinions of
authorities of the _Mishnah_ which are not embodied in the
_Mishnah_ or Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi. See Mielziner,
_Introduction to the Talmud_, pp. 20-21, Strack, _Einleitung
in den Talmud_, p. 3, and the _Jewish Encyclopedia_, _s.v._ A
_gemara_ (Talmudical commentary) to the _Baraita de-Abot_ was
published from a MS. by Coronel in _Chamishah Kuntresin_
(Vienna, 1864). This _baraita_ is found also in the
seventeenth chapter of _Tanna de-Be Eliyahu Sutta_, but with
different textual readings. See Ginzberg, in the _Jewish
Encyclopedia_, II, pp. 516-517.

(16) Known thus because Rabbi Meir's name is found in the
first verse.

(17) See next section. The sixth chapter is found in some
editions of the _Mishnah_.



ABOT IN THE LITURGY (18)

(18) On the subject-matter of this section, see the citation
from the Sar Shalom Gaon, in the _Siddur_ of R. Amram, 30a;
_Midrash Shemual_, pp. 3-4; Zunz, _Die Ritus_, pp. 85-86;
Strack, _Die Spruche der Vater_, p. 5, and _Siddur_, ed. Baer,
p. 271, note. Other portions of the _Mishnah_ and also of the
_Talmud_ that are included in the liturgy are, in the morning