Talmud Bavli

About the Talmud Bavli on TorahSages

37 masechtot · 2,684 dapim

The Talmud Bavli (Babylonian Talmud), also referred to as the Gemara, is the central and most authoritative text of Rabbinic Judaism. This multi-volume compilation of Jewish law, philosophy, ethics, and tradition, serves as the foundation for all later codes of Jewish law (Halacha).

The Gemara is the tradition of the Amoraim of Bavel, which was compiled in the great Torah academies including Sura and Pumbedita (Babylonia, modern-day Iraq). The Gemara contains thirty-seven masechtot arranged by the six sedarim (same as the Mishnah), redacted by Rav Ashi and Ravina around the year 500 CE. The daf-and-amud layout everyone learns by came with print: the Bomberg Shas of Venice (~1520) set it, and the Vilna Shas of the Romm press (1880s) made it the standard — daf by daf, in the beit midrash, in the Daf Yomi shiur, and in the chavruta after Maariv.

On TorahSages the text of the Gemara, appears with Rashi and Tosafot woven in sugya by sugya, the Rif and the Rosh linked on each masechet, and the Daf Yomi strip on the home page opening today’s daf. Each masechet page lists its dapim, and each daf carries the Mishnah it discusses. The Talmud sits here beside the Mishnah with the Bartenura, the halacha it produced in the Rambam, the Tur and the Shulchan Aruch, and the biographies of the Tannaim and Amoraim who speak in it — one library, built for learning, and free for all to learn.