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Seder Nashim Family law Yevamot The mandated marriage of a widow to the brother of her childless husband and the alternative rite discharging that obligation. Ketubot The marital contract Ketubah and obligations between husband and wife. Nedarim Vows taken voluntarily, particularly those that forbid specific actions or objects. Nazir The Nazirite, or one who vows abstinence from wine, haircuts, and ritual impurity generated from contact with corpses. Sotah A woman suspected of adultery, the ritual determining her culpability, and other rituals involving recitation.

Gittin Laws relating to divorce, focusing on the get bill of divorce and its delivery. Kiddushin Betrothal, marriage, acquisitions, and lineage. Seder Nezikin Damages Bava Kamma Liability and compensation for damages inflicted on people or property. Bava Metzia Disputed property, returning lost objects, guarding, renting, borrowing, and responsibilities of workers and employers.

Bava Batra Relationships between neighbors, land ownership, sales, and inheritance. Sanhedrin The judicial system, forming the court, accepting testimony, and executing capital punishment.

Makkot Court-administered lashing, false witnesses, and cities of refuge for inadvertent murderers. Shevuot Oaths and the process of atoning for entering the Temple or eating from a sacrifice while impure. Avodah Zarah Disassociating from idolatry, regulations on business interactions between Jews and idolaters. Horayot Atoning for erroneous rulings of the court and inadvertent sins of leaders.

Menachot Flour offerings, usually mixed with oil, wine libations, and bread loaf offerings in the Temple. Chullin Slaughter of animals and birds for non-consecrated purposes, other aspects of kashrut. Bekhorot Transfer of first-born kosher animals to a priest, redemption of first-born donkeys and people. Temurah The sanctity of animals dedicated for sacrifice and the prohibition of exchanging them for others. Keritot Karet, divinely-issued severance from the Jewish people, and sacrifices for unintentional sin.

Meilah Prohibited benefit from Temple property, the sacrifice and restitution offered as atonement. Tamid The daily Temple service, including the burnt-offerings brought every morning and afternoon. Seder Tahorot Purity Niddah The ritual impurity of a woman in her menstrual cycle or experiencing particular discharges. Minor Tractates Tractates not included in the canonizations of the Mishnah and the Talmud.

Tractate Avadim Slaves and indentured servants; their sale, acquisition, working conditions, and liberation process. Tractate Derekh Eretz Rabbah Ethics and morals, proper etiquette and conduct in daily life. Tractate Derekh Eretz Zuta Characteristics of a scholar, teachings about the messianic age, and a chapter extolling peace.

Tractate Gerim Converts to Judaism, the conversion process, and non-Jewish residents of Israel who observe the seven laws of Noah.

Tractate Kallah Marriage, intercourse, and proper sexual behavior. Tractate Kutim The religious status of Samaritans, permitted and prohibited interactions with them. Tractate Mezuzah Writing the mezuzah, a scroll of parchment containing the Shema, and hanging it on the doorpost.

Tractate Semachot Laws and customs relating to death: the moment of death, burial, mourning, and cemetery conduct. Tractate Soferim Writing Torah scrolls and other holy books, the public reading of biblical texts. Tractate Tefillin Preparing and wearing Tefillin, leather boxes containing biblical passages written on parchment. Tractate Tzitzit Fringes tied to garments with four corners. Guides Darkhei HaTalmud Short 15th-century guide with practical instructions for studying the Talmud and its commentaries.

Introductions to the Babylonian Talmud 20th-century introductions by Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz explaining the content and themes of each tractate. Mevo HaTalmud Chajes 19th-century introduction to the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds describing talmudic methodology and the development of oral law. Rishonim on Talmud Commentators who lived in the 11th through 16th centuries. Rashi Classic 11th-century commentary known for its concise and clear explanations and considered a key resource in studying Talmud.

Ramban Influential 13th-century analytic commentary incorporating approaches from a wide range of earlier commentators. Tosafot Analytic commentary addressing textual difficulties and harmonizing conflicting passages, composed throughout the 12th and 13th centuries. Rif 11th-century code that presents practical legal conclusions of talmudic passages and served later authorities as a basis for determining law. Mefaresh on Tamid Anonymous commentary on tractate Tamid printed in the Vilna edition in place of Rashi.

Mordechai on Bava Batra 13th-century commentary summarizing legal conclusions from the Talmud based on earlier authorities, considered a central work of Ashkenazi law.

Rabbeinu Chananel First extensive Talmud commentary, compiled in the 11th-century, paraphrasing legal passages and noting their conclusions. Ran 14th-century commentary on tractate Nedarim, printed alongside the text of the Talmud and considered the foremost commentary on the tractate. Rashba 13th-century commentary by Rabbi Shlomo ibn Aderet, a student of the Ramban who largely followed the methodology of his teacher.

Rav Nissim Gaon 11th-century commentary by a teacher of the Rif and rosh yeshiva in Kairouan, printed alongside the Talmud in tractates Berakhot, Shabbat, and Eruvin. Rosh Influential 14th-century code presenting practical legal conclusions of talmudic passages, based on the work of the Rif. Tosafot Chad Mikamei on Yevamot Medieval commentary by an unknown Tosafist, printed alongside the talmudic text in the Vilna edition of the Talmud. Tosafot HaRosh 14th-century commentary of Rabbi Asher ben Yechiel, based in large part on commentaries of the Tosafists.

On this scene now appears Oiz Vehodor's twin elucidated gemaras, the two editions of Mesivta , and Safa Berura. Their first task is to answer this burning need. They follow the gemara closely with a clear and precise commentary, which prevents the reader from losing his place and losing the drift of the passage.

The commentary accompanying the gemara in both editions was compiled with utmost care by a large team of talmidei chachamim and under the supervision of ingenious super-editors, since it's completion required a special delicate touch: the commentary should always be as precise as possible in explaining the Pshat , the straightforward sense of the gemara , and must do this as succinctly as possible, with no spare words; at the same time, it should never serve as a substitute for the gemara itself, but rather merely as a tool.

Besides this commentary, the Mesivta edition provides in-depth interpretations for the learner who wishes to delve deeper into a particular issue. Together, Oiz Vohodor's 'Mesivta' and 'Safa Berura' editions create a kind of virtual world-wide yeshiva, unbounded by time and space, for all those who use them at the same time.