Jastrow: תַּקָּנָה

תַּקָּנָה f. (תָּקַן) 1) remedy. Ḥag. 5ᵃ, v. מָצָא. Ib. 15ᵃ מה כלי … יש להם ת׳ … יש לו ת׳ as gold and glass vessels, even when they are broken, can be mended (remolten), so may a scholar, even if he has sinned, be restored (through repentance); Ab. d’R. N. ch. XXIV. Y. Sabb. IX, end, 12ᵇ, v. עוֹלָמִית; a. fr. —2) arrangement, ordinance, improvement, measure for the public welfare, reform. Keth. 10ᵃ הואיל ותַקָּנַת חכמים וכ׳ since it (the K’thubah) is merely a Rabbinical ordinance, she can collect her jointure only from the worst land. Ib. בתַקָּנָתָם, v. יָעַל. Gitt. IV, 6 we must not help captives to escape, מפני תקנת השבויין this regulation was made for the benefit of the (remaining) captives (who would be ill-treated after one escaped). Ib. V, 5 it has been decreed that if a joist is stolen and put into a building, the owner must accept the money for it, מפני תקנת השבים as a measure for the benefit of repentant sinners. R. Hash. I, 4 מפני תקנת קרבן in order to be able to regulate the sacrifices (for the New Year’s day). B. Kam. 115ᵃ, a. e. תקנת השוק, v. שׁוּק III. Y. R. Hash. IV, 59ᵇ bot. ויש ת׳ אחר הת׳ is there an ordinance after an ordinance, i.e. can a measure enacted by the Rabbis be extended by another enactment?; a. fr.—Pl. תַּקָּנוֹת. Bab. R. Hash. 31ᵇ זו אחת מתשע ת׳ וכ׳ (not אחד) this is one of the nine reforms introduced by R. J. ben Zaccai. B. Kam. 82ᵃ עשר ת׳ וכ׳ (not עשרה) Ezra made ten regulations: that reading from the Law should take place on Mondays and Thursdays &c. Men. 51ᵇ שתי ת׳ וכ׳ (not שני) two reforms were introduced by the Rabbis &c. B. Mets. 112ᵇ הני הילכתא נינהו הני ת׳ נינהו do you call these hălakhoth (legal decisions)? these are reforms (changing the Biblical law). Ib. ת׳ קבועות measures deserving to be perpetuated (to supersede the Biblical law); a. fr.