page_title: Tosafot
hierarchical_section_title: Tosafot
caption_attribution_description: English: Scanned page of the Babylonian w:Talmud, showing the first page of the first tractate, Daf "Bet" (folio 2a) of Masechet (Tractate) Brachot. The center column contains the Talmud text, beginning with a section of w:Mishnah. The w:Gemara begins 14 lines down with the abbreviation גמ (gimmel-mem) in larger type. Mishnah and Gemara sections alternate throughout the Talmud text. The blocks of text on either side are the w:Rashi and w:Tosafot commentaries, printed in w:Rashi script. The Rashi is always on the side of the page closest to the binding. Other notes and cross references are in the margins.
context_page_description: The Tosafot, Tosafos or Tosfot are medieval commentaries on the Talmud. They take the form of critical and explanatory glosses, printed, in almost all Talmud editions, on the outer margin and opposite Rashi's notes.
  The authors of the Tosafot are known as Tosafists; for a listing see List of Tosafists.
context_section_description: The Tosafot, Tosafos or Tosfot (Hebrew: תוספות) are medieval commentaries on the Talmud. They take the form of critical and explanatory glosses, printed, in almost all Talmud editions, on the outer margin and opposite Rashi's notes.
  The authors of the Tosafot are known as Tosafists (בעלי התוספות Ba'ale haTosafot); for a listing see List of Tosafists.
caption: The first page of the Vilna Edition of the Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Berachot, folio 2a.  
  The main text in the middle is the text of the Talmud itself.  To the right, on the inner margin of the page, is Rashi's commentary; to the left, on the outer margin, the Tosafot
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