User:Dovi/Mishneh Torah

by Maimonides

Table of Contents

• Introduction | Positive Commandments | Negative Commandments | Contents

1. The Book of Wisdom: Foundations of the Torah | Human Dispositions | Torah Study | Foreign Worship and Customs of the Nations | Repentance
2. The Book of Love: Reading the Shema | Prayer and the Priestly Blessing | Tefillin, Mezuzah and a Torah Scroll | Fringes | Blessings | Circumcision | The Order of Prayer
3. The Book of Seasons: Sabbath | Eruvin | Rest on the Tenth | Rest on a Holiday | Leavened and Unleavened Bread | Shofar, Sukkah and Lulav | Shekalim | Sanctification of the New Month | Fasts | Scroll of Esther and Hanukkah
4. The Book of Women: Marriage | Divorce | Levirate Marriage and Release | Virgin Maiden | Woman Suspected of Infidelity
5. The Book of Holiness: Forbidden Intercourse | Forbidden Foods | Slaughter
6. The Book of Pledges: Oaths | Vows | Nazariteship | Appraisals and Devoted Property
7. The Book of Agriculture: Diverse Species | Gifts to the Poor | Heave Offerings | Tithes | Second Tithes and Fourth Year's Fruit | First Fruits and other Gifts to Priests Outside the Sanctuary | Sabbatical Year and the Jubilee
8. The Book of Temple Service: The Chosen Temple | Vessels of the Sanctuary and Those who Serve Therein | Admission into the Sanctuary | Things Forbidden on the Alter | Sacrificial Procedure | Daily Offerings and Additional Offerings | Sacrifices Rendered Unfit | Service on the Day of Atonement | Trespass
9. The Book of Temple Offerings: Paschal Offering | Festival Offering | Firstlings | Unintentional Transgressions | Those with Incomplete Atonement | Substitution
10. The Book of Purity: Defilement by a Corpse | Red Heifer | Defilement by Leprosy | Those Who Defile Bed or Seat | Other Sources of Defilement | Defilement of Foods | Vessels | Immersion Pools
11. The Book of Damages: Damages to Property | Theft | Robbery and Lost Property | One Who Injures a Person or Property | Murderer and the Preservation of Life
12. The Book of Acquisition: Sales | Ownerless Property and Gifts | Neighbors | Agents and Partners | Slaves
13. The Book of Judgements: Hiring | Borrowing and Deposit | Creditor and Debtor | Plaintiff and Defendant | Inheritances
14. The Book of Judges: The Sanhedrin and the Penalties within their Jurisdiction | Testimony | Rebels | Mourning | Kings and their Wars^[1]

Notes

1. The following sources were consulted in preparing this translation of the titles of the books and topics in Mishneh Torah: Moses Hyamson, trans., Mishneh Torah, Volume I, The Book of Knowledge (New York, Feldheim: 1974); the multi-volume Yale Judaica Series translation of Mishneh Torah by numerous authors; the translation of the titles as found at Mechon Mamre. All three of these sources translate most of the titles very similarly to each other most of the time, though there are a number of significant variations between them. The Wikisource translation of these titles strives to emulate Maimonides' combination of accuracy, brevity and clarity, arriving at translations which are often similar or identical to some or all of the previous translations, but at other times differ from any or all of them. The Wikisource translation of the actual text in the chapters of Mishneh Torah, however, as opposed to the titles, is done from scratch with no consultation of these previous translations (of which only the Yale translation is nearly complete).