Browse the Talmud

Blessings and prayers, focusing on Shema and the Amidah.

Creative work prohibited on Shabbat and other laws that preserve the sanctity of the day.

Enclosures that legally expand the areas in which one can carry and travel on Shabbat.

Passover: ridding of chametz, the Paschal lamb offering, matzah, maror, and the Seder.

The four Jewish New Years, sanctifying a new month, and laws of blowing the shofar.

Yom Kippur: the High Priest's preparation, the Temple service, the fast, and repentance.

The structure of and obligation to dwell in the sukkah, the four species, and Temple celebration.

Holiday laws governing which objects can be used, how food is prepared, and what labor is permitted.

Praying for rain, fasting in times of drought, and annual fast days marking Jerusalem's destruction.

Reading the scroll of Esther on Purim, expansions on the Esther story, and synagogue rituals.

Chol HaMoed (intermediate days of Passover and Sukkot), mourning and excommunication.

Sacrifices offered on pilgrimage to Jerusalem on the Festivals, ritual purity, and esoteric topics.

The mandated marriage of a widow to her childless husband's brother, and the alternative rite.

The marital contract (Ketubah) and obligations between husband and wife.

Vows taken voluntarily, particularly those that forbid specific actions or objects.

The Nazirite, who vows abstinence from wine, haircuts, and ritual impurity from corpses.

A woman suspected of adultery, the ritual determining her culpability, and other rituals.

Laws relating to divorce, focusing on the get (bill of divorce) and its delivery.

Betrothal, marriage, acquisitions, and lineage.

Liability and compensation for damages inflicted on people or property.

Disputed property, lost objects, guarding, renting, borrowing, and employer responsibilities.

Relationships between neighbors, land ownership, sales, and inheritance.

The judicial system, forming the court, accepting testimony, and capital punishment.

Court-administered lashing, false witnesses, and cities of refuge for inadvertent murderers.

Oaths and the process of atoning for entering the Temple or eating from a sacrifice while impure.

Disassociating from idolatry, regulations on business interactions between Jews and idolaters.

Atoning for erroneous rulings of the court and inadvertent sins of leaders.

Animal and bird sacrifices in the Temple.

Flour offerings, wine libations, and bread loaf offerings in the Temple.

Slaughter of animals and birds for non-consecrated purposes, and other aspects of kashrut.

Transfer of first-born kosher animals to a priest, and redemption of first-born donkeys and people.

Vowing to donate a person's prescribed value to the Temple, and donations of land.

The sanctity of animals dedicated for sacrifice and the prohibition of exchanging them.

Karet, divinely-issued severance from the Jewish people, and sacrifices for unintentional sin.

Prohibited benefit from Temple property, the sacrifice and restitution offered as atonement.

The daily Temple service, including the burnt-offerings brought every morning and afternoon.

The ritual impurity of a woman in her menstrual cycle or experiencing particular discharges.