Mishnah Bava Metzia ("The Middle Gate"), in the order Nezikin (Damages). Lost property, deposits, sales and fraud, interest, and hiring workers and animals. The Mishnah is the first written code of Jewish oral law, compiled in the land of Israel about AD 200 under Rabbi Judah the Prince; it is rabbinic law and teaching, not scripture. English by Joshua Kulp (Mishnah Yomit), Hebrew from the Torat Emet edition.