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Hebrew and English side by side, chapter by chapter. The Hebrew is the unvocalized 1742 Amsterdam text as keyed by Project Ben-Yehuda volunteers, catalogue ID 53742. The English is a clean-room translation of that Hebrew, citations kept as printed. In the parent file, DerechTevunos_benyehudah_bilingual.md, nothing has been added, emended, re-translated or re-worded; it only interleaves the two. Paragraphing is identical on both sides: 174 paragraphs each.

This copy differs from the parent in one respect: the English terminology. The English began as a clean-room agent translation of the Ben-Yehuda Hebrew. The repository owner has cross-checked its technical vocabulary against the Diaspora Yeshiva translation (Feldheim, 1988/2014) and put the Diaspora Yeshiva's terms back in, because he prefers them: they keep enough of the Western-logic lexicon to be intelligible to a logician, but diverge from the Western definitions wherever those do not fit how a sugya actually builds and tests a statement. The aim is a functional vocabulary — one that lets a reader, or an agent, label the moves and statements of a large sugya — not doctrinal correctness. Only the terms were changed: the Hebrew, the quotations and their citations as printed, and the sense of every English sentence are as in the parent. All eleven chapters are aligned.

Sugya Context Index and [ed.] notes. A Sugya Context Index — one entry for every passage the author cites, written from the Sefaria text of the passage itself — is appended after chapter 11. Researching the sources for it revealed a number of places where the 1742 print's quotation or citation differs from the source; those are marked in the English by [ed. …] brackets that give the source's reading. The Hebrew print and its translation stand as they were; the brackets are the only addition.