Yoma

Yoma (Aramaic: יומא, lit. "The Day") is the fifth tractate of Seder Moed ('Order of Festivals') of the Mishnah and of the Talmud. It is concerned mainly with the laws or halacha of the Jewish holiday Yom Kippur, on which Jews atone for their sins from the previous year. It consists of eight chapters and has a Gemara ('Completion') from both the Jerusalem Talmud and the Babylonian Talmud.

Yoma
Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur, by Maurycy Gottlieb (1878)
Tractate of the Talmud
Seder:Moed
Number of Mishnahs:61
Chapters:8
Babylonian Talmud pages:88
Jerusalem Talmud pages:42
Tosefta chapters:4
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