Editing Minor tractate (section)

==List==
The minor tractates are normally printed at the end of ''[[Nezikin|Seder Nezikin]]'' in the [[Talmud]]. They include:<ref name="ou"/><ref name="ej">Encyclopaedia Judaica, [https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/minor-tractates Minor Tractates]</ref>
# [[Avot of Rabbi Natan]] (Hebrew: אבות דרבי נתן), an expansion of [[Pirkei Avot]].<ref name="ou"/>
# [[Soferim (Talmud)|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). Contains laws and customs pertaining to death and mourning, and is sometimes euphemistically called ''Semakhot'' ("joys").<ref name="ou"/>
# Kallah (Hebrew: כלה – Bride). On engagement, marriage and co-habitation.
# Kallah Rabbati (Hebrew: כלה רבתי – Great Bride). An elaboration of the previous.
# [[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.
# Perek ha-Shalom (Hebrew: פרק השלום – Chapter of Peace). On the ways of peace between people. It is a final chapter to Derekh Eretz Zuta, often listed separately.
# Sefer Torah (regulations for writing [[Torah scroll]]s). Nearly equivalent to the first five chapters of [[Soferim (Talmud)|Soferim]].
# [[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|converts]]).
# Kutim (Hebrew: כותים – Samaritans).

There is also a lost tractate called "Eretz Yisrael" (about laws pertaining to the [[Land of Israel]]).<ref>[https://www.daat.ac.il/daat/vl/masachtotktanot/masachtotktanot01.pdf Masechtot Ketanot]</ref> Similarly, a ''Masechet [[Hanukkah]]'' is mentioned in connection with the [[Vilna Gaon]], but is not extant.<ref>Rabbi Avraham ben haGra, ''Rav Pe'alim'', introduction to seven tractates</ref>

A translation of all of the minor tractates was published in two volumes by [[Soncino Press]]; a one-volume edition with the original Hebrew was later issued as part of their set of the Babylonian Talmud. Numerous translations of individual tractates have been produced by other publishers. The Yale Judaica Series includes translations of Avot de-Rabbi Natan and Semahot; the former has been translated at least three other times, and the latter also appears, along with the two Derekh Eretz tractates, in [[Michael Rodkinson]]'s Talmud translation.