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While Talmud Bavli has had a standardized page count for over 100 years based on the Vilna edition, the standard page count of the Yerushalmi found in most modern scholarly literature is based on the first printed edition (Venice 1523) which uses folio (#) and column number (a,b,c,and d; eg. Berachot 2d would be folio page 2, column 4).
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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 .
A masekhet (Hebrew: מַסֶּכֶת , Sephardic: / m ɑː ˈ s ɛ x ɛ t /, Ashkenazic: / m ɑː ˈ s ɛ x ɛ s /; plural masekhtot מַסֶּכְתּוֹת ) is an organizational element of Talmudic literature that systematically examines a subject, referred to as a tractate in English.
Sanhedrin (סנהדרין ) is one of ten tractates of Seder Nezikin (a section of the Talmud that deals with damages, i.e. civil and criminal proceedings). It originally formed one tractate with Makkot, which also deals with criminal law.
'The First Gate') is the first of a series of three Talmudic tractates in the order Nezikin ("Damages") that deal with civil matters such as damages and torts. The other two of these tractates are Bava Metzia ('The Middle Gate') and Bava Batra ('The Last Gate'): originally all three formed a single tractate called Nezikin , each "Bava" meaning ...
Berakhot (Hebrew: בְּרָכוֹת, romanized: Brakhot, lit."Blessings") is the first tractate of Seder Zeraim ("Order of Seeds") of the Mishnah and of the Talmud.The tractate discusses the rules of prayers, particularly the Shema and the Amidah, and blessings for various circumstances.
This version of the Talmud is frequently named the Jerusalem Talmud or the Palestinian Talmud. The latter name, after the region of Palestine – or the Land of Israel – is considered more accurate, as the text originated mainly from Galilee in Byzantine Palaestina Secunda rather than from Jerusalem, where no Jews lived at the time. [5]