How to Navigate a Page of Talmud

 Please click the Talmud Page by Eliezer Segal to start.

Answer the following questions by navigating the Talmud page and clicking on the hypertexts.

1. What does the word Mishnah mean? What is its shoresh? What word is used to describe the Bible? Why?
2. What are the rabbis quoted in the Mishnah called? Why?
3. When was the major body of the Mishnah written? What major Jewish historical events happened during this time?
4. Who compiled the Mishnah? What was his title? Where did he live? How does the Talmud refer to him?
5. What are the 6 sedarim of the Mishnah? What types of Halakhot do they each deal with? Explain.
6. What does the word Talmud mean? What other name is the Talmud given? Why? What abbreviation starts the beginning of a passage of Talmud?
7. What are the rabbis of the Talmud called? Why?
8. Name 2 rabbis of the First generation of the Talmud and 2 rabbis of the Fourth generations. Give some background information about each of these rabbis. During what years was the Talmud written?
9. Who compiled the Talmud? When did he live?
10. Where was the Talmud written? Who ruled the Jews?
11. What is the distinctive character of the Talmud? Explain.
12. What is a Baraita and when does the Talmud quote it?
13. Who was Rashi? When and where did he live?
14. Why is Rashi’s commentary on the Talmud so important?
15. What does Tosafot mean? Where does it appear on the page in reference to Rashi?
16. When did the Tosafot live? Where did they live? How was Tosafot compiled?
17. Give brief biographies of the Rabbenu Tam, the Rashbam, and the RI.
18. What is the style of Tosafot? What Hebrew phrase usually introduces a difficulty in Tosafot and what phrase introduces a solution?
19. Who wrote Rabbenu Hananel? When and where did he live? Why is he important?
20. Who wrote Rabbenu Gershom? When and where did he live? Why is he important?
21. What is the Ein Mishpat? What is the Ner Mitzvah? Where does it appear on a Talmud page? What do you use it for?
22. What is the Mesoret Hashas? Where does it appear on a page of Talmud? Why is it important?
23. What is the Hagahot Ha-Bah? Where does it appear on a page of Talmud? Why is it important?

 

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