Jerusalem Talmud Taanit

Jerusalem Talmud Taanit: the Gemara of the land of Israel on Mishnah Ta'anit ("Fasts"), in the order Mo'ed (Appointed Times). Public fasts declared for rain and in times of trouble, the priestly watches, and the fifteenth of Av. The Jerusalem Talmud (Talmud Yerushalmi) was compiled in Galilee, chiefly at Tiberias, about AD 400; each halakhah quotes a passage of the Mishnah (MISHNAH) and then discusses it (HALAKHAH). It is rabbinic law and teaching, not scripture. English and Hebrew/Aramaic by Heinrich W. Guggenheimer; his footnotes are not reproduced. In the English, words in parentheses and square brackets are his deletions and additions; in the Hebrew, a reading in parentheses is the manuscript's, deleted, and the one in square brackets his correction.