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That twitter feature that’s like “readers added context they think you should know” is a good start. Very gemaracore. Now make it another font that is so different it’s like a different language and now we’re rashi
You're so correct, we only need a name for it now, we got the form and format
i have fallen for the classic trap: i see a wall of text and i want to know what it says even though i understand neither the language nor the script it is written in
definitely looks like an interesting read, tho
This is how pages of the Talmud are laid out! The pink section in the upper center is a section of the Mishnah, then below that is part of the Gemara... I found the following from Mosaic magazine:
The Talmud has a famously distinctive page layout: the text itself resides in the center, and it is flanked by the medieval commentary of Rabbi Isaac ben Solomon (Rashi) on one side and that of his disciples (known as Tosafot) on the other, with various reference apparatuses in the margins, and then other commentaries in the outer margins. Introduced by Gentile printers of Judaica in 16th-century Italy, this format has been followed with minimal variation in almost every subsequent edition.
And here's the article mentioned by Mosaic magazine, on Tradition:
https://traditiononline.org/from-bomberg-to-the-beit-midrash-a-cultural-and-material-history-of-talmudic-page-layout/
I think it's a really fascinating way to present a text that is almost two millennia old and the body of scholarly work that has built up around it, shown literally around it with page layout.
(Just a note: I am not Jewish, so anyone who is Jewish and/or knows this topic better than I do, feel free to correct anything I got wrong here!)
Apologies for necroposting, but to answer the question of what it says specifically, it's Berakhot 2a, the first page of the Talmud. Unfortunately English translations don't 100% preserve the original formatting. Print editions kinda do but they also cost 1000 USD because the Talmud is really long, even packed that tight.
