The Talmud is included on this website because we feel it is worthwhile to mine it for its wealth of truth.

Every Torah-teacher who has been made into a disciple for the Kingdom of Heaven is like the owner of a home who brings out of his storage room both new things and old. (Matthew 13:52)

For millennia the Jews have been studying and expounding on the Torah and we feel that this is an invaluable resource for anyone looking to deepen their Bible study. True, there are those who pull difficult passages out of it and use them to promote the belief that Judaism leads to undesirable behavior but the same can be said for the Bible itself; without further study some verses can lead to questionable conclusions.

We feel that the Christian community will be helped more than hindered by having some exposure to the Talmud. We do, however, also believe that without an acknowledgement of Jesus as the Messiah and his teachings and those of his emissaries that this work is incomplete and in some places flat-out contradicts established Christian theology as contained in the New Testament. If the new things from the storage room could only be married to the old it would truly be a Kingdom creation. But since there is this missing element that hasn't been digested and incorporated into the Talmud, we would like to caution those who do use it to filter it through a Messianic lens.

We hope this helps you in your study of the Babylonian Talmud.

 

Order Zera'im
Berakhot	Benedictions
Pe'ah	Gleanings (Lev 19:9-10)
Demai	Doubtfully tithed produce
Kilayim	Diverse kinds (Deut 22:9-11)
Shevi'ith	The Sabbatical Year (Exo 23:10-11)
Terumoth	Heave offering (Lev 22:10-14)
Ma'aseroth	Tithes (Num 18:21)
Ma'aser Sheni	Second tithe (Deut 14:22ff)
Challah	Dough offering (Num 15:17-21)
Orlah	The fruit of young trees (Lev 19:23-25
Bikkurim	Firstfruits (Lev 26:1-11)
Order Mo'ed
Shabbath	The Sabbath
Eruvin	The fusion of Sabbath limits
Pesachim	Passover
Shekalim	The Shekel dues (Exo 30:11-16)
Yoma	The Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur)
Sukkah	The Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkoth)
Beitzah	Festival laws
Rosh Ha-Shanah	Various new years, particularly Rosh Ha-Shanah
Ta'anith	Fast days
Megillah	Purim
Mo'ed Katan	The intermediate days of festivals
Chagigah	The Festival offering (Deut 16:16-17)
Order Nashim
Yevamoth	Levirate marriage (Deut 25:5-10)
Kethuboth	Marriage contracts
Nedarim	Vows (Num 30)
Nazir	The Nazirite (Num 6)
Sotah	The suspected adulteress (Num 5:11ff)
Gittin	Divorce
Kiddushin	Marriage
Order Nezikin
Baba Kamma	Torts
Baba Metzia	Civil law
Baba Bathra	Property law
Sanhedrin	Judges
Makkoth	Flagellation (Deut 25:2)
Shevu'oth	Oaths
Eduyyot	Traditional testimonies
Avodah Zarah	Idolatry
Avoth	Ethical maxims
Horayoth	Erroneous ruling of the court (Lev 4:22ff)
Order Kodashim
Zevahim	Animal offerings
Menahoth	Meal offering
Hullin	Animals slaughtered for food
Bekhoroth	Firstlings (Deut 15:19ff)
Arakhin	Vows of valuation (Lev 27:1-8)
Temurah	The substituted offering (Lev 27:10)
Kerithoth	Extirpation (Lev 18:29)
Me'ilah	Sacrileges (Lev 5:15-16)
Tamid	The daily sacrifice (Num 28:3-4)
Middoth	Measurements of the Temple
Kinnim	The Bird offering (Lev 5:7ff)
Order Tohoroth
Kelim	Uncleanness of articles
Oholoth	Uncleanness through overshadowing (Num 19:14-15)
Nega'im	Leprosy (Lev 13, 14)
Parah	The Red Heifer (Num 19)
Tohoroth	Ritual cleanness
Mikva'oth	Ritual ablution
Niddah	The menstruant
Makhshirin	Liquid that predisposes food to become ritually unclean (Lev 11:37-38)
Zavim	Fluxes (Lev 15)
Tevul Yom	Ritual uncleanness between immersion and sunset (Lev 22:6-7)
Yadayim	The ritual uncleanness of the hands
Ukzin	"Stalks" parts of plants susceptible to uncleanness

 

For more tractates, please see:
Complete Soncino English translation of the Babylonian Talmud (pdf files) (offsite)

2009