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Where does “ש״ס” come from?

ש״ס (Yiddish) comes from Hebrew שִׁשָּׁה סְדָרִים — The Six Orders.

Ancestry of “ש״ס”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hebrewשִׁשָּׁה סְדָרִיםThe Six Orders
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