"[4] The Tosefta (13:18-22) discusses greed and violence done by the priests, which is said to have contributed to the destruction of the Second Temple, due to baseless hatred.
[4] Besides the main topics, summarized above, the Talmud contains noteworthy deliberations and narratives on other matters, such as: Chapter 3: Scribal guidelines for Hebrew letters and for writing Torah, mezuzah, and tefillin parchments.
It begins with Moses finding God putting calligraphy "crowns" on the letters of the Torah, for the sake of Rabbi Akiva.
53a-b: A sugya with the style of R. Ezra's midrash aggadah, with the notion that God was justified before Abraham for the destruction of the Temple and the exile to Babylonia.
Jacob Zallel Lauterbach and Isadore Singer drew attention to its concluding episode:[4] At the hour of his death the high priest Simon the Just appointed his younger but learned son Onias to be his successor.
For example, Rabbi Yohanan says that studying the halakhah (rabbinic law) is as worthy as conducting the offerings in the Temple, which is the subject of this tractate.