The Babylonian Talmud

By Translated by Michael L. Rodkinson

Book 4 - Volume 8

Tract Taanith

Table of Contents

  Book 4 Title Page
  Volume 8 Title Page
  Explanatory Remarks
  A Word to the Public
  A Letter From Prof. Dr. M. Lazarus
  Synopsis Of Subjects
Chapter 1 Regulations Concerning the Time When Mention is Made of Rain in the Daily Prayer, When Rain is to Be Prayed for, When Fast-Days are Ordered on Which to Pray Especially for Rain, and the Character of Such Days of Mourning
Chapter 2 Regulations Concerning the Order of Procedure on the Last Seven Fast-Days, and the Prayers to be Recited on Those Days
Chapter 3 Regulations Concerning Occurrences on Account of Which Fast-Days are Ordered, or Alarms are Sounded. When Fasting on Account of Rain is Stopped
Chapter 4 Regulations Concerning the Priests' Blessing of the People, the Institution of the Standing Men--Their Fasts and Prayers. The Fast of the Seventeenth Day of Tamuz and the Ninth of Abh, And the Celebration of the Fifteenth Day of Abh