Minor tractate
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The Minor Tractates are normally printed at the end of Seder Nezikin in the Talmud. They include:
- 1. Avot de-Rabbi Nathan. The Schechter edition contains two different versions (version A has 41 chapters and version B has 48).
- 2. Soferim (Scribes). This tractate appears in two different versions in the Jerusalem and Babylonian Talmuds.
- 3. Evel Rabbati. This tractate is about laws and customs pertaining to death and mourning, and is sometimes euphemistically called Semakhot ("joy").
- 4. Kallah (on engagement, marriage and sex).
- 5. Kallah Rabbati (an elaboration of the above).
- 6. Derekh Eretz Rabbah. "Derekh Eretz" literally means "the way of the world," which in this context refers to deportment, manners and behavior.
- 7. Derekh Eretz Zutta. Addressed to scholars, this is a collection of maxims urging self examination and modesty.
- 8. Pereq ha-Shalom (on the ways of peace between people; a final chapter to the above often listed separately).
- 9. Sefer Torah (regulations for writing Torah scrolls).
- 10. Mezuzah (scroll affixed to the doorpost).
- 11. Tefillin (phylacteries).
- 12. Tzitzit (fringes).
- 13. Avadim (servants).
- 14. Gerim (conversion to Judaism).
- 15. Kutim (Samaritans).