The Masoretic Text is the authoritative Hebrew and Aramaic text of the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible in Rabbinic Judaism. The Masoretic Text defines the Jewish canon and its precise letter-text, with i
Carpet page from the Leningrad Codex, the oldest complete manuscript of the Masoretic Text
A page from the Aleppo Codex, showing the extensive marginal annotations
Masekhet Soferim, the "Tractate of the Scribes", is a non-canonical Talmudic tractate dealing especially with the rules relating to the preparation of holy books, as well as with the laws of Torah rea