תקנתא

תַּקַּנְתָּאch. sam( תַּקָּנָה f. (תָּקַן) remedy), 1) remedy. Targ. Y. Num. 4:19.Meg.3a מאי תֵּקַּנְתֵּיהוכ׳ what is his remedy (what shall he do)? Let him read the Shmʿa. Snh.7a ולא הויא ת׳ לעולם and there would never be a remedy for them; אפשר … ת׳ בתשובה there might have been a remedy for them through repentance. Zeb.76a אית ליה ת׳ ברעייה there is a remedy for it by letting it go to pasture; a. e. 2) measure, ordinance, reform. Meg.2a אתו רבנן ועקרו ת׳ דתקינווכ׳ will the Rabbis abolish an institution introduced by the men of the Great Assembly? Ib. אפי׳ בזמן הזה איתא להאי ת׳ this regulation is maintained even in our days (after the destruction of the Temple). B. Kam.96a ת׳ לעכו״םוכ׳ shall we introduce a measure for the benefit of a gentile (robber, as we do for the benefit of a repentant Jew)? B. Mets.5a sq. שבועת … ת׳ היא ות׳ לת׳ לא עבדינן R. Naḥmans oath of equity (v. הֶיסֵּת) is a reform, and we do not introduce a reform for a reform, i. e. the Rabbinical ordinance that, when one of the litigants is unfit to make oath, the opponent must swear, applies only to cases in which the oath is required by Biblical law, but not to cases in which the oath is itself a Rabbinical requirement; Shebu.41a; 46a; a. fr.