דרךְ

דֶּרֶךְc. (b. h.; preced.) way, road; method, manner. Kidd.2b ד׳ לשוןוכ׳ derekh is feminine gender Ib. דַרְכּוֹ של אישוכ׳ it is mans way to carry war, and not womans.Y.Ned.I, beg.36c, a. e. התורה דיברה כדַרְכָּהּ, v. לָשוֹן. Succ.II, 1 לפי דַרְכֵּינוּ by our way (incidentally). Ab. Zar.15b כד׳ שאסור … כךוכ׳ Ms. M. (ed. כד׳ שאמרו אסור) on the same principle that ; a. v. fr.דֶּ׳ אֶרֶץ (abbrev. ד׳׳א) the way of the land, a) good manners; b) secular occupation, trade; c) (euphem.) sexual connection. Ab. II, 2 study עם ד׳׳א combined with a trade. Tosef.Sot.VII, 20 לימדה … ד׳׳אוכ׳ the Torah teaches incidentally the proper conduct that one must first build a house Gitt.70a bot. ד׳ וד׳׳אוכ׳ travelling, marital connection Gen. R. s. 18, end. Ib. s. 22, beg.Ib. s. 80 כדַרְכָּהּ natural gratification of sexual appetite, שלא כד׳ unnatural. Ib. s. 18, end; a. fr.Snh.31b העביר עלי את הד׳ mutilated me (oth. interpret.: wronged me in business).Pl. דְּרָכִים. Kidd.I, 1. R. Hash. 17a פירשו מדַּרְכֵי ציבור they deviated from the ways of the community, became heretics.דרכי אמורי, v. אֱמֹורִי.דרכי שלום ways of peace (ref. to Prov. 3:17); מפני ד׳ ש׳ because the ways of the Law are ways of peace (differ. fr. משים איבה, v. אֵיבָה), i. e. it is a demand of equity, good manners , though no special law can be quoted for it. Gitt.V, 8 sq.; a. fr.(ד׳׳א) דרך ארץ Derekh Erets (Manners), name of a treatise attached to Talmud editions, divided into Rabba (Large), and Zuta (Small).