Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ... / HARVARf UNIVERSITY U6RARY v J EXPLANATORY REMARKS. In our translation we adopted these principles: 1. Tenan of the original--We have learned in a Mishna; Tania--We have learned in a Boraitha; Itemat--It was taught. 2. Questions are indicated by the interrogation point, and are immediately followed by the answers, without being so marked. 3. When in the original there occur two statements separated by the phrase, Lishna achrena or Waibayith Aetna orJkha d'amri (literally, "otherwise interpreted "), we translate only the second. 4. As the pages of the original are indicated in our new Hebrew edition, it is not deemed necessary to mark them in the English edition, this being only a translation from the latter. 5. Words or passages enclosed in round parentheses ( ) denote the explanation rendered by Rashi to the foregoing sentence or word. Square parentheses [ ] contain commentaries by authorities of the last period of construction of the Gemara. COPYWCHT, 1900, BV MICHAEL L. RODKINSON. INTRODUCTION TO SECTION JURISPRUDENCE. With the present volume we begin the Section " Damages," also called" Jurisprudence," from the occurrence of discussions on criminal law. This section forms the fourth in the old edition, and comprises the following treatises: " First Gate,"" Middle Gate," " Last Gate," " Sanhedrin," " Stripes," " Oaths," "Testimonies," "Idolatry," "Fathers" (or "Ethics of the Fathers of the Synagogue "), and " Decisions." Notwithstanding the fact that in the old edition of the Talmud " Fathers" stands next to the last tract, we have placed it at the head of the section, relying upon the decision of Sherira Gaon in his letter (Goldberg edition, Mayence, 1872, p. 14) declaring that it is perfectly permissible to change the or
