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The Jerusalem Talmud: A Translation and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Jerusalem Talmud, or Yerushalmi, is a commentary on the oral law (the Mishnah) of Israel that ties that oral law to the written law (the Torah, the Hebrew Scripture). Completed about 200 years prior to The Babylonian Talmud. Now all thirty-nine Yerushalmi tractates, as translated by Professor Neusner and Tzvee Zahavy, have been brought together in a single searchable resource. In addition to...

Passages in Hebrew are in Roman type; passages in Aramaic, in italics. This allows one to see very quickly how the framers have used language as a means of signaling where we stand at any given point.6 In this way the taxonomic power of language in a multi-lingual document becomes apparent.