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The minor tractates (Hebrew: מסכתות קטנות, masechtot qetanot) are essays from the Talmudic period or later dealing with topics about which no formal tractate exists in the Mishnah. They may thus be contrasted to the Tosefta , whose tractates parallel those of the Mishnah .
Every printed masekhet (tractate) of Talmud Bavli begins on page 2 (with the exception of Middot, Tamid and Kinnim), making the actual page count one less than the numbers below.
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The word masechet (מַסָּכֶת) appears in the Hebrew Bible denoting web or texture (Judges 16:13–14). The plain Hebrew meaning of the word is the warp and weft used in weaving . By extension , the word has been used to refer to a work of in-depth examination of a topic comprising discussions, research and conclusions.
The minor tractate Sefarim, edited by Schönblum, is not earlier (as he assumes) but rather later than Masseket Sefer Torah, from which it is an extract. The name "Sefarim" (= "books") is merely the plural of "sefer," designating the Torah as "the book" par excellence.
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In the Talmud editions the treatise consists of nine sections ("perakim"), to which the Section on Peace ("Perek ha-Shalom") is added as a supplement.. The Halakhot Gedolot [3] gives another version; here the same material is in two parts—(1) "Derekh Eretz Zuta," corresponding to sections 5–8, and (2) "Derekh Eretz Rabbah," containing sections 1-4 and 9.