Scripture Portion

Tractate Shabbat

Also Known As Shabbos

Talmud

Tractate Shabbat is the first tractate of Seder Moed ("Order of Appointed Times") in the Mishnah and Talmud, devoted to the laws of the Sabbath and organized primarily around the thirty nine categories of work its Mishnah enumerates as forbidden. Its 138 Mishnayot across twenty four chapters run to 157 pages in the Babylonian Talmud, among the longest tractates in the whole work, distinct in subject from the Talmud's already recorded Berakhot, which governs prayer and blessings rather than Sabbath observance.

Facts

Identity

Parent Work

Talmud (Seder Moed) 1

Position in the Canon

First tractate of Seder Moed, the Talmud's second order. 1

Canonical Reference

Masekhet Shabbat 1

Canonicity (class)

Canonical 1

Literary form (class)

Legal code 1

Origins

Language

Mishnaic Hebrew and Jewish Babylonian Aramaic 1

Connections

Associated With

Babylonians

This source names Babylonians directly: "Tractate Shabbat is the first tractate of Seder Moed ("Order of Appointed Times") in the Mishnah and Talmud, devoted to the laws of the Sabbath and organized primarily around the thirty nine..."

Source The Mishnah: A New TranslationJacob Neusner, trans.