The Mishnah consists of six divisions known as Sedarim or Orders. The Babylonian Talmud () has Gemara—rabbinical analysis of and commentary on the Mishnah—on 37 masekhtot (; ; ). The Jerusalem Talmud () has Gemara on 39 masekhtot. The Talmud is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law (Halakha) and Jewish theology.

Structure Every printed masekhet ('tractate') of the begins on page 2 (with the exception of tractates Middot, Tamid and Kinnim), making the actual page count one less than the numbers below.

While the has had a standardized page count for over 100 years based on the Vilna Edition Shas (i.e., the Vilna edition), the standard page count of the used in most modern scholarly literature is based on the 1523 Bomberg Talmud, which uses folio (#) and column number ('a', 'b', 'c', and 'd'; e.g., tractate Berakhot 2d would be folio page 2, column 4). A modern alternative page count and numbering system for the was published by Oz Vehadar in the 2010s, which is used in the table that follows.

ChaptersPages of Gemara Pages of Gemara (11 ) 75 655 63 744 Berakhot 9 57 64 94 Pe'ah 8 69 73 Demai 7 53 77 Kil'ayim 9 77 84 Shevi'it 10 89 87 Terumot 11 101 107 Ma'aserot 5 40 46 Ma'aser Sheni 5 57 59 Challah 4 38 49 Orlah 3 35 42 Bikkurim 4 39 26 (12 ) 88 681 731 620 Shabbat 24 139 157 113 Eruvin 10 96 105 71 Pesachim 10 89 121 86 Shekalim 8 52 22 61 Yoma 8 61 88 57 Sukkah 5 53 56 33 Beitza 5 42 40 49 Rosh Hashanah 4 35 35 27 Ta'anit 4 34 31 31 Megillah 4 33 32 41 Mo'ed Katan 3 24 29 23 Chagigah 3 23 27 28 (7 ) 71 578 605 418 Yevamot 16 128 122 88 Ketubot 13 111 112 77 Nedarim 11 90 91 42 Nazir 9 60 66 53 Sotah 9 67 49 52 Gittin 9 75 90 53 Kiddushin 4 47 82 53 (10 ) 74 685 682 301 Bava Kamma 10 79 119 40 Bava Metzia 10 101 119 35 Bava Batra 10 86 176 39 Sanhedrin 11 71 113 75 Makkot 3 34 24 11 Shevu'ot 8 62 49 49 Eduyot 8 74 Avodah Zarah 5 50 76 34 Pirkei Avot 6 108 Horayot 3 20 14 18 (11 ) 91 590 558 Zevahim 14 101 120 Menachot 13 93 110 Chullin 12 74 142 Bekhorot 9 73 61 Arachin 9 50 34 Temurah 7 35 34 Keritot 6 43 28 Me'ilah 6 38 22 Tamid 7 34 8 Middot 5 34 3 Kinnim 3 15 4 (12 ) 126 1,003 72 11 Keilim 30 254 Oholot 18 134 Nega'im 14 115 Parah 12 96 Tohorot 10 92 Mikva'ot 10 71 Niddah 10 79 73 11 Makhshirin 6 54 Zavim 5 32 Tevul Yom 4 26 Yadayim 4 22 Uktzim 3 28 63 masechtot 525 4,192 2,711 2,094

Masechtot Shekalim, Middot and Kinnim are printed in the editions of the Babylonian Talmud despite there not being Babylonian Talmud gemara.

In addition to the tractates of the Mishnah and Tosefta, there are also the Minor Tractates (Hebrew: מסכתות קטנות), a collection of short treatises dealing with various ethical and ritual topics not covered in the main Talmudic tractates. For more information, see Minor tractate.

See also Mishnah Talmud

References

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