Talmud
The Talmud (תלמוד) is considered an authoritative record of rabbinic discussions on Jewish law, Jewish ethics, customs, legends and stories. It consists of the Mishnah, a record of oral traditions, and the Gemara, which comments upon, interprets and applies these oral traditions. A section of the Mishnah is followed by the Gemara on that section. There are two distinct Gemaras: the Yerushalmi and the Bavli, and two corresponding Talmuds: Talmud Yerushalmi (Jerusalem Talmud) and the Talmud Bavli (Babylonian Talmud); The word "Talmud", when used without qualification, usually refers to the Babylonian Talmud. Neither Gemara is complete.
See also: Pirkei Avot, a section of the Mishnah.
Sourced
- Whoever destroys a soul, it is considered as if he destroyed an entire world. And whoever saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world.
- Mishnah Sanhedrin 4:5; Babylonian Talmud Tractate Sanhedrin 37a
- Teach me the whole Torah while I stand on one foot. Tractate Shabat 31a.
- What is hateful to thee, do not unto thy fellow; this is the whole law. All the rest is a commentary to this law; go and learn it. Tractate Shabat 30a.
- If one has eaten garlic and has acquired a bad odor, he must not eat more garlic because the bad odor is (about him) already. Tractate Shabat 30b.
External links
- Talmud texts
- Mishna (Hebrew)
- Tosefta (Hebrew)
- Talmud Yerushalmi (Hebrew)
- Talmud Bavli (Hebrew)
- Soncino English translation
- Rodkinson English translation (1903, only Moed and Nashim).
- Images of each page of the Babylonian Talmud (English framework with Hebrew text images)
- Pertaining to the "Daf Yomi" program:
- General
- "A Page from the Babylonian Talmud" image map from Prof. Eliezer Segal
- A survey of rabbinic literature on the Ohr Somayach website
- point by point summary and discussion by daf