מעמד

מַעֲמָדm. (b. h.; עָמַד) 1) standing up; מ׳ ומושב standing up and sitting down, halt of the funeral escort on returning from burial for lamentation or consolation. Tosef.Pes.II (III), 15 אין מ׳ ומו׳וכ׳ no less than seven halts are made. Ib. 14 מקום שנהגו לעשות מ׳ ומו׳ where it is customary to make halts (on the eve of Passover). B. Bath. 100b עבד לה מ׳ומו׳ arranged for her sake a maʿămad Meg.IV, 3 (23b) אין עושין מ׳ … בפחות מעשרה we arrange no maʿămad with less than ten persons; a. fr.B. Bath. l. c. המוכר … מקום מַעֲמָדֹו if one sells his grave, the road to his grave, or his halting place.Pl. מַעֲמָדֹות. Ib. אין פוחתין מז׳ מ׳ ומושבות no less than seven , v. supra. 2) (law) presence of witnesses, judges Ib. 144a bot. במַעֲמַד שלשתן in the presence of us three (the owner, the trustee, and the recipient). Y.Shebu.VI, 37a top; Y.Gitt.IX, 50c bot., v. אָשַׁר. Y.Keth.XIII, 36a bot. בשפסק במַעֲמָדָהּ when her father made the promise in her presence; a. fr. 3) post, a division of popular representatives deputed to accompany the daily services in the Temple with prayers, and also a corresponding division in the country towns, answering to the divisions (guards, v. מִשְׁמָר) of priests and Levites. Taan. IV, 2 על כל משמר ומשמר היה מ׳וכ׳ corresponding to every guard was a post of priests, Levites and Israelites stationed in Jerusalem. Ib. 4 אין בו מ׳ no prayer meeting of the maʿămad took place.אַנְשֵׁי מ׳, v. אֱנֹוש; a. fr.Pl. as ab. Ib. 2 אלו הן מ׳ this is the origin of the maʿămadoth. Ib. 27b, a. e. אלמלא מ׳ but for the prayer meetings of Meg.III, 6 במ׳ במעשה בראשית at the prayer meetings the first chapter of Genesis was read (one section each day of the week).