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.

Quotes

• 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; Yerushalmi Talmud 4:9, Babylonian Talmud 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.

• Let every man divide his money into three parts, and invest a third in land, a third in business, and a third let him keep by him in reserve.
  • Bava Metzia 42a.

About Talmud

• Superman obeys the Talmudic injunction to do good for its own sake and heal the world where he can.
  • Blair Kramer [1]

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:
  • a general resource for Daf Yomi
  • calendar for this Daf Yomi cycle

• 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