Moed

Moed ("Festivals") is an order of the Mishnah, the core work of rabbinic Judaism. The Talmud is structured around the Mishnah. Of the six orders of the Mishna, Moed is the third shortest. The order of Moed includes the following twelve treatises:

1. Shabbat ("Sabbath"); twenty-four chapters; deals with the laws regarding the seventh day as a day of rest.
2. Eruvin ("Mingling"); ten chapters; deals with the means by which inconvenient regulations regarding the Sabbath may be legally obviated.
3. Pesahim ("Passover Festivals"); ten chapters dealing with the prescriptions regarding the Passover and the paschal sacrifice.
4. Shekalim ("Shekels"); eight chapters; treats chiefly of the poll-tax of a half-shekel for each male, prescribed in Ex. xxx. 12-16, and which was devoted to defraying the expenses of the services of the Temple in Jerusalem.
5. Yoma ("Day"), called also "Kippurim" or "Yom ha-Kippurim" ("Day of Atonement"); eight chapters; deals with the prescriptions regarding worship and fasting on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur.
6. Sukkot ("Booth"); five chapters; deals with the regulations concerning Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacles, and the Tabernacle itself.
7. Betzah ("Egg"; so called from the first word, but originally termed, according to its subject, "Yom Tov", Holidays); five chapters; deals chiefly with the rules to be observed on Jewish holidays.
8. Rosh ha-Shanah ("New-Year Feast"); four chapters; deals chiefly with the regulation of the calendar by the new moon, and with the services on the New-Year.
9. Ta'anit ("Fasting"); four chapters; deals chiefly with the special fast-days in times of drought or other untoward occurrences.
10. Megillah ("Esther Scroll"); four chapters; contains chiefly regulations and prescriptions regarding the reading of the scroll of Esther at Purim, and the reading of other passages in the synagogue.
11. Mo'ed Ḳaṭan ("Half-Feasts"; originally called "Mashḳin," after its initial word); three chapters; deals with the regulations concerning the intermediate feast-days, or the days between the first two and the last two days of Pesah and Sukkah.
12. Hagigah ("Feasting"); three chapters; deals among other things with the manner of observance of the three principal feasts.

In the Babylonian Talmud the treatises of the order Mo'ed are arranged as follows: Shabbat, 'Erubin, Pesahim, Betzah, Hagigah, Mo'ed Ḳaṭan, Rosh ha-Shanah, Ta'anit, Yoma, Sukkah, Shekalim, and Megillah; while the sequence in the Palestinian Talmud is Shabbat, Eruvin, Pesahim, Yoma, SheKalim, Sukkah, Rosh ha-Shanah, Betzah, Ta'anit, Megillah, Hagigah, and Mo'ed Ḳaṭan.