Ebook The Talmud

The following summary of the contents of the six sections will enable the reader to appreciate the extended variety of the subjects embraced by the legislation of the Mishna. Section I: Seeds — After a chapter devoted to the bene dictions, it treats of tithes, first fruits, sacrifices, and gifts due from the produce of the land to the priests, the Levites, and the poor; of the cessation of agricultural labor during the Sabbatic year; and of the prohibited mixtures in seeds and in grafting — In all eleven treatises.