Minor tractate

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Halakhic Midrash
Mekhilta de-Rabbi Yishmael on Exodus Mekhilta de-Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai on Exodus Sifra on Leviticus Sifre on Numbers and Deuteronomy Sifre Zutta on Numbers Mekhilta on Deuteronomy Baraita of Rabbi Ishmael
Aggadic Midrash
—— Tannaitic —— Seder Olam Rabbah Alphabet of Akiba ben Joseph Baraita of the Forty-nine Rules Baraita on the Thirty-two Rules Baraita on Tabernacle Construction —— 400–600 —— Genesis Rabbah Eichah Rabbah Pesikta de-Rav Kahana Esther Rabbah Midrash Iyyov Leviticus Rabbah Seder Olam Zutta Midrash Tanhuma Megillat Antiochus —— 650–900 —— Avot of Rabbi Natan Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer Tanna Devei Eliyahu Alphabet of Ben-Sira Kohelet Rabbah Canticles Rabbah Devarim Rabbah Devarim Zutta Pesikta Rabbati Midrash Shmuel Midrash Proverbs Ruth Rabbah Baraita of Samuel Targum sheni —— 900–1000 —— Ruth Zuta Eichah Zuta Midrash Tehillim Midrash Hashkem Exodus Rabbah Canticles Zutta —— 1000–1200 —— Midrash Tadshe Sefer haYashar —— Later —— Yalkut Shimoni Yalkut Makiri Midrash Jonah Ein Yaakov Midrash HaGadol Numbers Rabbah Smaller midrashim
Rabbinic Targum
—— Torah —— Targum Onkelos Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Fragment Targum Targum Neofiti —— Nevi'im —— Targum Jonathan —— Ketuvim —— Targum Tehillim Targum Mishlei Targum Iyyov Targum to the Five Megillot Targum Sheni to Esther Targum to Chronicles

The minor tractates (Hebrew: מסכתות קטנות, masechtot qetanot) are essays from the Tannaitic period or later dealing with topics about which no formal tractate exists in the Mishnah. They may thus be contrasted to the Tosefta, whose tractates parallel those of the Mishnah. The first eight or so contain much original material; the last seven or so are collections of material scattered throughout the Talmud.

The Minor Tractates are normally printed at the end of Seder Nezikin in the Talmud. They include:

Avot of Rabbi Natan (Hebrew: אבות דרבי נתן). The Schechter edition contains two different versions (version A has 41 chapters and version B has 48).
Soferim (Hebrew: סופרים – Scribes). This tractate appears in two different versions in the Jerusalem and Babylonian Talmuds.
Evel Rabbati (Hebrew: אבל רבתי – Elaboration on Mourning). This tractate is about laws and customs pertaining to death and mourning, and is sometimes euphemistically called Semahot ("joys").
Kallah (Hebrew: כלה – Bride) (on engagement, marriage and co-habitation).
Kallah Rabbati (Hebrew: כלה רבתי – an elaboration of the above).
Derekh Eretz Rabbah (Hebrew: דרך ארץ רבה) "Derekh Eretz" literally means "the way of the world," which in this context refers to deportment, manners and behavior.
Derekh Eretz Zuta (Hebrew: דרך ארץ זוטא) Addressed to scholars, this is a collection of maxims urging self-examination and modesty.
Pereq ha-Shalom (Hebrew: פרק השלום – Chapter of Peace) (on the ways of peace between people; a final chapter to the above often listed separately).
Sefer Torah (regulations for writing Torah scrolls).
Mezuzah (Hebrew: מזוזה – scroll affixed to the doorpost).
Tefillin (Hebrew: תפילין – phylacteries).
Tzitzit (Hebrew: ציצית – fringes).
Avadim (Hebrew: עבדים – slaves).
Gerim (Hebrew: גרים – conversion to Judaism).
Kutim (Hebrew: כותים – Samaritans).

There is also a lost tractate called "Eretz Yisrael" (about laws pertaining to the Land of Israel).

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The Six Orders of the Mishnah (ששה סדרי משנה)

Zeraim (Seeds) (זרעים)	Moed (Festival) (מועד)	Nashim (Women) (נשים)	Nezikin (Damages) (נזיקין)	Kodashim (Holies) (קדשים)	Tohorot (Purities) (טהרות)

Berakhot Pe'ah Demai Kil'ayim Shevi'it Terumot Ma'aserot Ma'aser Sheni Hallah Orlah Bikkurim	Shabbat Eruvin Pesahim Shekalim Yoma Sukkah Beitza Rosh Hashanah Ta'anit Megillah Mo'ed Katan Hagigah	Yevamot Ketubot Nedarim Nazir Sotah Gittin Kiddushin	Bava Kamma Bava Metzia Bava Batra Sanhedrin Makkot Shevu'ot Eduyot Avodah Zarah Avot Horayot	Zevahim Menahot Hullin Bekhorot Arakhin Temurah Keritot Me'ilah Tamid Middot Kinnim	Keilim Oholot Nega'im Parah Tohorot Mikva'ot Niddah Makhshirin Zavim Tevul Yom Yadayim Uktzim

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