The Babylonian Talmud

By Translated by Michael L. Rodkinson

Book 4

Table of Contents

Volume 7

  Book 4 Title Page
  Volume 7 Title Page
  Explanatory Remarks
  Dedication
  To the Reader
  Synopsis Of Subjects
Chapter 1 Regulations Concerning Eatables and Beverages: Preparations from the First Day of Festivals to the Second, From the Festivals to the Sabbath, and Vice Versa
Chapter 2 Regulations Concerning the Combining of Cookery on a Festival Preceding a Sabbath
Chapter 3 Regulations Concerning Fishing and Hunting on Festivals
Chapter 4 Regulations Concerning the Carrying and Handling of Things on the Festival
Chapter 5 Regulations Concerning Labors Permitted and not Permitted on Biblical Festivals
   
  Book 4 Title Page
  Dedication
  Synopsis Of Subjects
Chapter 1 Regulations Concerning the Building of a Legal Booth for the Feast of Tabernacles, Its Walls, and Roofing
Chapter 2 Regulations Concerning the Situations in Which a Booth May be Placed, What Must be done in it, etc.
Chapter 3 Regulations Concerning Palm Branches, Myrtles, Willows, and Citrons Used on the First Day of the Feast of Tabernacles
Chapter 4 Regulations Concerning the Four Kinds Tied With the Lulab, Concerning Hallel, Pouring the Water on the Altar
Chapter 5 Regulations Concerning the Enjoyments and the Songs in the Temple during the Time of the Sacrifices, and Their Order
   
  Book 4 Title Page
  Synopsis Of Subjects
Chapter 1 Regulations Concerning Labor and Marriage in the Intermediate Days
Chapter 2 Regulations Concerning Labor. Mourning and Buying and Doing Business in That Time, and also in the Intermediate Days
Chapter 3 Regulations Regarding Mourning on Festivals, Regarding Those Who are Under the Ban, and Washing
   

Volume 8

  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
   
  Book 4 Title Page
  Synopsis Of Subjects
Chapter 1 Regulations Concerning the Time When the Book of Esther Must Be Read On the Rabbinical Feast of Purim in Open Towns and Walled Cities, Etc.
Chapter 2 Concerning the Reading of the Megilla--By Whom, Where, And In What Languages
Chapter 3 Regulations Concerning the Posture of the Reader of the Megilla, And His Clothes, Before Prayer
Chapter 4 Regulations Concerning Selling Of Sacred Property and About the Reading of the Holy Scrolls on Sabbath and Holidays
   
  Book 4 Title Page
Chapter 1 Ordinances Regarding One in the Struggle of Death, And When Death Occurs In a Village
Chapter 2 What Is Considered Suicide
Chapter 3 Ordinances Concerning the Burial of Infants and Minors Up To the Age of Seven Years
Chapter 4 Mourning Over Relatives of the First and Second Degrees
Chapter 5 Regulation Regarding Labor during Mourning
Chapter 6 What A Mourner May and May Not Read
Chapter 7 The Thirty Days' Period of Mourning
Chapter 8 The Examination of the Corpse; the Burial of a Bridal Couple; the Sages That Were Executed By the Government
Chapter 9 The Rending Of Garments over Relatives, Parents, and Scholars
Chapter 10 What an Onen May and May Not Read
Chapter 11 When Several Deaths Occur In a Town at the Same Time Who Must Be Buried First
Chapter 12 From What Day the Seven, Thirty Days' Mourning, Etc., Begin To Count
Chapter 13 The Removal from One Grave to Another
Chapter 14 What May and What May Not Be Done In A Cemetery and About the Graves of Families