Editing Nashim (section)

==Order of tractates==
The traditional reasoning for the order of tractates according to [[Maimonides]] is as follows:
*''Yevamot'' is first because unlike the others, it is largely concerned with a compulsory commandment (levirate marriage) as opposed to a voluntary one.
*''Ketubot'' follows as it signifies the beginning of married life.
*''Nedarim'' follows because once a man is married to a woman, he has the legal right (under certain conditions) to annul her vows.
*''Nazir'', dealing with a special type of vow is a continuation on the subject of vows.
*The penultimate sections deal with the end of a marriage with ''Sotah'' which is concerned with infidelity and ''Gittin'' which is about actual divorce (Rambam's order swaps these two).
*''Kiddushin'' is at the end because it follows the Scriptural order that once a woman is divorced, she can get betrothed to any man, this subsequent betrothal symbolised by the placement of ''Kiddushin''.

Both the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds have a [[Gemara]] on each of the tractates in the order.