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The Gemara begins 8 lines down with the abbreviation 'גמ (gimmel-mem). Mishnah and Gemara sections alternate throughout the Talmud text. The large blocks of text on either side are the Tosafot and Rashi commentaries. Other notes and cross references are in the margins.
Each page of the Hebrew/Aramaic text is in the style of the traditional Vilna Edition Shas, with various classical commentaries (such as Rashi) surrounding the text of the Mishnah and Gemara. Each Hebrew page is opposite a page of English translation—one Hebrew folio takes approximately six to eight pages of English to translate. [2]
'Twice Scripture and once translation'), is the Jewish practice of reading the weekly Torah portion in a prescribed manner. In addition to hearing the Torah portion read in the synagogue, a person should read it himself twice during that week, together with a translation usually by Targum Onkelos and/or Rashi 's commentary.
In the early medieval era, Rashi already concluded that some statements in the extant text of the Talmud were insertions from later editors. On Shevuot 3b Rashi writes "A mistaken student wrote this in the margin of the Talmud, and copyists [subsequently] put it into the Gemara." [b]
"Rabi" is used for a Tanna of the Mishna, and "Rav" for an Amora of the Gemara. If no name is specified, the reference is usually to Rabbi Judah the Prince. אֶרֶץ, אר׳ (eretz) - 1) Land. 2) The earth. 3) The physical universe; ארצות הברית, ארה״ב (Ar-tzot HaBrit) - (Modern Hebrew) the United States; lit. Lands of the Covenant
The Hebrew translation started in 1965 and was completed in late 2010. The Hebrew edition contains the standard text of the Talmud with vowels and punctuation in the middle of the page. [ 1 ] The margins contain the standard Rashi and tosafot commentaries, as well as Steinsaltz's own translation of the Talmud text into modern Hebrew with his ...
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This is a list of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic and Jewish Levantine Aramaic acronyms prominently featured in the Gemara. ... (pirush Rashi) - Rashi explains, ...