Commentary on the Talmud

In his introduction to the Mishnah commentary, Maimonides mentions that he wrote a commentary for the orders: Moed, Nashim and Nezikin. Only a few of these commentaries are extant. The complete text of tractate Rosh ha-Shanah is found in a number of manuscripts, notably Biblioth?que Nationale (Ms.h?b. 336). Fragments of the commentary to other tractates are found in other sources and those that survived in the Geniza are now preserved in the Cambridge University Library.

The Paris manuscript containing the commentary on Tractate Rosh ha-Shanah was published by Yehiel Brill, Paris , 1865. Extracts from the commentary on various tractates cited in other commentaries were collected by M.J.L. Sachs, Hiddushei ha-Rambam la-Talmud, Jerusalem , 1963.

Some fragments from the treatise on the Talmud Yerushalmi, which was referred to in the Commentary on the Mishnah as Hilkhot ha-Yerushalmi were also found in the Cairo Geniza and are now held in the Cambridge University Library. These fragments were published by S. Lieberman, Hilkhot ha-Yerushalmi, N.Y. 1948, and an additional fragment from tractate Ketubbot was published by S. Hopkins in the “Journal of Semitic Studies”, 28 (1983), pp. 273-409.

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