Shabbat שבת

The Torah forbade "work" on the Sabbath without explaining the word. The Mishnah answers with a list: forty labours less one—the very ones by which the Tabernacle was built. Ploughing, reaping, kneading, writing, kindling, carrying from domain to domain. Everything else is derived from that list: each kind draws its offshoots after it.

The second half of the tractate is about how the Sabbath looks: with what the lamp is lit, in what the hot food is wrapped, what may be carried out of doors, what is done when a life is in danger. And here is the best-known page on patience: the gentile who asked to be taught the whole Torah standing on one foot, and Hillel's answer.

Order: Moed. There is Gemara in both the Babylonian and the Jerusalem Talmud.