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Introduction and Credits

compiled by Joan Biella    Library of Congress
in collaboration with Rachel Simon   Princeton University
web documentation by Jim Weinheimer   Princeton University

Chapters of the Babylonian Talmud are often referred to by their opening words. To determine the tractate and chapter number of a chapter identified only by its title, click on the Hebrew letter which begins the name of the chapter, and then on the name itself. This will bring up the Hebrew name of the chapter in both Hebrew script and romanized form as well as the established name of the tractate and the number of the chapter.

Please communicate any comments, additions or corrections to: Joan Biella and Rachel Simon using this form.

The site is an adaptation of:
Strack, Hermann L. Introduction to the Talmud and Midrash. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1931.
Appendix III, "The opening words of those chapters in the Babylonian Talmud which have Gemara, in alphabetical order" (p. 368-372).

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