Talmud and Mishnah

The first written code of Jewish oral law and the Talmud of the land of Israel, complete, with the original alongside — rabbinic teaching, not scripture.

The Mishnah is the foundation of rabbinic Judaism: the teachings of the sages on how the commandments of the Torah are to be kept, gathered into six orders and sixty-three tractates in the land of Israel about AD 200 under Rabbi Judah the Prince. It covers prayer and blessings, farming and tithes, the Sabbath and the festivals, marriage and divorce, civil and criminal law, the Temple and its offerings, and ritual purity. The Talmud is built on it: each Talmud is a commentary (Gemara) on the Mishnah. It is carried here as Jewish law and teaching from the generations after the New Testament, not as scripture.

This shelf has the whole Mishnah in Joshua Kulp's English translation, Mishnah Yomit (licensed CC BY), with the pointed Hebrew of the Torat Emet edition under each mishnah. Words in square brackets are Kulp's, added to make the terse Hebrew readable. Pirkei Avot, the Mishnah's tractate of ethical sayings, is the best place to start.

It also has the whole Jerusalem Talmud (Talmud Yerushalmi), compiled in Galilee about AD 400: thirty-nine tractates in Heinrich W. Guggenheimer's English translation with his Hebrew and Aramaic text (De Gruyter, licensed CC BY 4.0). Each halakhah quotes a passage of the Mishnah and then discusses it; his footnotes are not reproduced.

Of the Babylonian Talmud (Talmud Bavli), the authoritative Talmud of Jewish law, it has the tractates with an open English translation: Berakhot (A. Cohen, 1921), Sukkah and Megillah (Daf Shevui), Makkot (a community translation), with the Aramaic of the Vilna edition from Wikisource, Ta'anit in Henry Malter's 1928 translation with his own critical Hebrew text, and Chagigah in A. W. Streane's 1891 translation with the Vilna text beside it; more will follow. Every tractate can also be read mishnah by mishnah with both Talmuds' discussion underneath, under “The Mishnah with the Talmud.”

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