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Useful things to know
About the guys on the page:
אחרית דבר - list of manuscripts consulted, at end of מסכת נדה
In מסורת הש"ס, square brackets (חצאי רבוע) = additions or semi-parallels; ע"ש = something weird worth looking at; ש"נ = ושם נסמן, the list of parallels isn't here, it's over there
סמ"ג.
13-th century, ר' משה נקוצי, synthesising rulings of Tosafot & Rambam, gaonic influence
רש"ל
Glosses on Tosafot, printers' errors. Poland, contemporary of Rema. שלמה לוריא, חכמת שלמה. Bases for emending text.
גילון הש"ס
עקיבה עיגר - sort of concordance, interesting points.
About the guys in the back:
המתרגם - translates Rashi's Old French terms into Yiddish
רי"ף - distils gemara to germane points only (obviously highly subjective).
רא"ש - rulings based on baalei tosafot and Rif
קיצור פסרי הרא"ש - the Beit Yosef's notes on the Rosh
שדה צופים - on the gemara; if the Rosh doesn't talk about the subject there it tells you where he does talk about it
מהרש"א - ways of looking at sugiyot. Small letters aggadah, big letters halakah, "intermittently helpful."
רש"א - emended text
מהר"ם - bare-bones Tosafot structures
יפה עינים - parallels in Yerushalmi, Tosefta, midrash halakha
Rashi on Rif - isn't always the same as Rashi on the Gemara
מאור הקטן - "hardcore Provencale - youthful attack on the Rif"
מלחמת השם - the Ramban's smackdown of the Meor haKatan
About the guys on the page:
אחרית דבר - list of manuscripts consulted, at end of מסכת נדה
In מסורת הש"ס, square brackets (חצאי רבוע) = additions or semi-parallels; ע"ש = something weird worth looking at; ש"נ = ושם נסמן, the list of parallels isn't here, it's over there
סמ"ג.
13-th century, ר' משה נקוצי, synthesising rulings of Tosafot & Rambam, gaonic influence
רש"ל
Glosses on Tosafot, printers' errors. Poland, contemporary of Rema. שלמה לוריא, חכמת שלמה. Bases for emending text.
גילון הש"ס
עקיבה עיגר - sort of concordance, interesting points.
About the guys in the back:
המתרגם - translates Rashi's Old French terms into Yiddish
רי"ף - distils gemara to germane points only (obviously highly subjective).
רא"ש - rulings based on baalei tosafot and Rif
קיצור פסרי הרא"ש - the Beit Yosef's notes on the Rosh
שדה צופים - on the gemara; if the Rosh doesn't talk about the subject there it tells you where he does talk about it
מהרש"א - ways of looking at sugiyot. Small letters aggadah, big letters halakah, "intermittently helpful."
רש"א - emended text
מהר"ם - bare-bones Tosafot structures
יפה עינים - parallels in Yerushalmi, Tosefta, midrash halakha
Rashi on Rif - isn't always the same as Rashi on the Gemara
מאור הקטן - "hardcore Provencale - youthful attack on the Rif"
מלחמת השם - the Ramban's smackdown of the Meor haKatan