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passage
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The Chosen, by Chaim Potok
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He's got a passage in the book about ants on a burning log.
Chpt 1.4

passage = a short part of a longer written work
The one on that passage in Kiddushin about the business with the king is very good.
Chpt 2.7
His father asked how could the commentator have offered such an interpretation when in another passage in the Talmud he had said exactly the opposite, and Danny, very quietly, calmly, his fingers still playing with the rim of the paper plate, found a difference between the contradictory statements by quoting two other sources where one of the statements appeared in a somewhat different context, thereby nullifying the contradiction.
Chpt 2.7
Danny repeated a short passage from the tractate Sanhedrin, and then his father quoted another passage from Yoma which contradicted the passage in Sanhedrin, and Danny answered with a passage from Gittin which dissolved the contradiction.
Chpt 2.7
Danny repeated a short passage from the tractate Sanhedrin, and then his father quoted another passage from Yoma which contradicted the passage in Sanhedrin, and Danny answered with a passage from Gittin which dissolved the contradiction.
Chpt 2.7
Danny repeated a short passage from the tractate Sanhedrin, and then his father quoted another passage from Yoma which contradicted the passage in Sanhedrin, and Danny answered with a passage from Gittin which dissolved the contradiction.
Chpt 2.7
Danny repeated a short passage from the tractate Sanhedrin, and then his father quoted another passage from Yoma which contradicted the passage in Sanhedrin, and Danny answered with a passage from Gittin which dissolved the contradiction.
Chpt 2.7
His father questioned the validity of his interpretation of the passage in Gittin by citing a commentary on the passage that disagreed with his interpretation, and Danny said it was difficult to understand this commentary-—he did not say the commentary was wrong, he said it was difficult to understand it—because a parallel passage in Nedarim clearly confirmed his own interpretation.
Chpt 2.7
His father questioned the validity of his interpretation of the passage in Gittin by citing a commentary on the passage that disagreed with his interpretation, and Danny said it was difficult to understand this commentary-—he did not say the commentary was wrong, he said it was difficult to understand it—because a parallel passage in Nedarim clearly confirmed his own interpretation.
Chpt 2.7
His father questioned the validity of his interpretation of the passage in Gittin by citing a commentary on the passage that disagreed with his interpretation, and Danny said it was difficult to understand this commentary-—he did not say the commentary was wrong, he said it was difficult to understand it—because a parallel passage in Nedarim clearly confirmed his own interpretation.
Chpt 2.7
I had this time been able to retain hold of the chain of the argument—probably because there was no tension now—and so when Reb Saunders cited and explained a passage that seemed to contradict a point that had just been made by Danny, I suddenly found myself on the field of combat, offering an interpretation of the passage in support of Danny.
Chpt 2.8
I had this time been able to retain hold of the chain of the argument—probably because there was no tension now—and so when Reb Saunders cited and explained a passage that seemed to contradict a point that had just been made by Danny, I suddenly found myself on the field of combat, offering an interpretation of the passage in support of Danny.
Chpt 2.8
I found I was enjoying it all immensely, and once I even caught myself reading aloud from a Talmud—it was the grammatical discussion of the gender of "derech," road, in the tractate Kiddushin— before Reb Saunders realized what I was doing and told me to stop, I wasn't allowed to use my eye yet, Danny would read the passage.†
Chpt 2.8
Danny didn't need to read the passage—he quoted it by heart with mechanical swiftness.†
Chpt 2.8
He was writing another article, on a passage in Avodah Zarah, which, he said, he was only now beginning to understand, and he needed one of the journal collections.
Chpt 2.10
In the middle of a heated debate over an impossible passage in Kiddushin I heard Danny take a sudden loud breath, as if he had been punched in the stomach.
Chpt 2.10
Three days later, we came to that passage in our Talmud class, and for the second time that year Rav Gershenson called out my name and asked me to read and explain.
Chpt 3.14
In most instances, however, the thought units are clearly discernible, and the decision on how to break up a passage into such units is a matter of common sense and a feel for the rhythm of the argument.
Chpt 3.14
The need to break up a passage into its thought units is simple enough.
Chpt 3.14
I had broken up the passage into its thought units as I had studied it, so I knew precisely at what points I would stop reading and begin my explanations.
Chpt 3.14 *
He asked me to make myself a little clearer on a passage in one of the commentaries, and I repeated the passage by heart and explained it again as best I could.
Chpt 3.14
He asked me to make myself a little clearer on a passage in one of the commentaries, and I repeated the passage by heart and explained it again as best I could.
Chpt 3.14

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It's a great passage.†
Chpt 1.4
They had had an argument over a passage of Talmud, they told him, each of them interpreting it in a different way, and they wondered who had been correct.†
Chpt 2.7
They mentioned the passage, and Danny nodded, immediately identified the tractate and the page, then coldly and mechanically repeated the passage word for word, giving his interpretation of it, and quoting at the same time the interpretations of a number of medieval commentators like the Me'iri, the Rashba, and the Maharsha.†
Chpt 2.7
They mentioned the passage, and Danny nodded, immediately identified the tractate and the page, then coldly and mechanically repeated the passage word for word, giving his interpretation of it, and quoting at the same time the interpretations of a number of medieval commentators like the Me'iri, the Rashba, and the Maharsha.†
Chpt 2.7
The passage was a difficult one, he said, gesticulating with his hands as he spoke, the thumb of his right hand describing wide circles as he emphasized certain key points of interpretation, and both men had been correct; one had unknowingly adopted the interpretation of the Me'iri, the other of the Rashba.†
Chpt 2.7
That's a tough passage," he said.†
Chpt 2.7
This was almost like the pilpul my father had told me about, except that it wasn't really pilpul, they weren't twisting the texts out of shape, they seemed more interested in b'kiut, in straightforward knowledge and simple explanations of the Talmudic passages and commentaries they were discussing.†
Chpt 2.7
He began to read from it, stopping at the end of each passage.†
Chpt 2.8
Danny and I took turns explaining each alternating passage.†
Chpt 2.8
Then they went on to another tractate, fought over another passage, and this time Reb Saunders agreed, his face glowing, that his son was correct.†
Chpt 2.8
And I—soon realized something else: Reb Saunders was far happier when he lost to Danny than when he won: His face glowed with fierce pride and his head nodded wildly—the nod beginning from the waist and including the entire upper portion of his body, with the beard moving back and forth against his chest—each time he was forced to acquiesce to Danny's rendition of a passage or to Danny's incisive counter-questioning.†
Chpt 2.8
I listened to them for a few minutes longer, and then I realized that though they knew so much more material than I did, once a passage was quoted and briefly explained, I was on almost equal footing with them.†
Chpt 2.8
I saw allusions in passages that Danny and his father overlooked, and I resolved a contradiction with an appeal to grammar.†
Chpt 2.8
Danny and I were soon involved in a heated discussion concerning two contradictory commentaries on the same passage, and Reb Saunders sat back quietly and listened.†
Chpt 2.8
Our argument ended in a draw; we agreed that the passage was obscure and that as it stood it could be explained either way.†
Chpt 2.8
My father and I were studying Sanhedrin—slowly, patiently, intensively, not leaving a passage until my father was satisfied that, at: least for the present, we understood it fully.†
Chpt 2.10
There were manuscripts there which he needed for the purpose of checking variant readings of the Talmudic passage on which he was working.†
Chpt 2.10
Danny shook his head, still smiling, bent over the Talmud, and began to give his version of the passage.†
Chpt 2.10
Instead, I heard him sigh a little, then offer a passage from the Baba Bathra that contradicted Danny's explanation.†
Chpt 2.10
Had I ever sat in a bus with my father for hours and not exchanged a single word of conversation, except for a short discussion about a passage of Talmud?†
Chpt 2.10
In one book, Freud was referred to only once, and the passage was far from complimentary.†
Chpt 3.13
The book in which I found that passage was full of tables and graphs showing the results of experiments on frogs, salamanders, rats, apes, and human beings.†
Chpt 3.13
What does the Ramban say about Rabbi Akiva's question?" he might ask of a particular passage, speaking in Yiddish.†
Chpt 3.14
I tried to finish my college work as quickly as I could, then I would turn to the passage of Talmud we were studying with Rav Gershenson.†
Chpt 3.14
I searched endlessly through all the cross-references and all the parallel passages in the Palestinian Talmud.†
Chpt 3.14
I did it by working backward, using the commentary as a base, then asking myself what passage among the four versions the commentator could have had before him as he wrote the commentary.†
Chpt 3.14
Some of my friends had told me earlier that they dreaded being called on for that passage; they hadn't been able to make any sense at all out of it and the commentaries were impossible.†
Chpt 3.14
I bent over my Talmud, put the index finger of my right hand below the first word of the passage, and began to read.†
Chpt 3.14

Definitions:

(1) (passage as in: In lines 1-9 of the passage...)
a short part of a longer written work

This meaning of passage is commonly seen on standardized tests like the SAT and ACT.
(2) (meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus)
More frequently, passage refers to a passageway for travel or to the act of traveling. It can also refer to the passing of time or of a law. See a comprehensive dictionary for the many meanings of passage, but for comfort taking standardized tests like the SAT and ACT, be very familiar with passage being used to refer to a short excerpt from a longer written work.

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