The tenth [appendix]: relates to the distribution of laws between the many and the few: The sages that received the Mishnah who we have divided – some of them had many laws written in their name, such as Rabbi Meir and Rabbi Yehudah. And some of them had few laws written in their names, such as Rabbi Elazar ben Yaakov – as they said, "The teaching of Rabbi Elazar ben Yaakov is straight and clean," meaning to say, sparse and the law is according to [his teachings].

And the order of the many laws and the few is according to that which we mentioned in the previous [appendix] about [those that encountered] many disagreements or few.

And there are some of whom were only named in one law in the Mishnah and their name was not repeated in any of the judgements of the commandments, and they are thirty-seven:

The man Nachum the scribe and Rabbi Mayasha are in Tractate Peah (Mishnah Peah 1:6) only and there is nothing else taught by them in any other place.

And Chananiah ben Chakhinai and Rabbi Yose ben HaChotef Efrati are only in Kilayim (Mishnah Kilayim 3:7 and Mishnah Kilayim 4:8)

And Rabbi Elazar Chisma and Rabbi Yose ben Meshulam are in Terumot only (Mishnah Terumot 3:5 and Mishnah Terumot 4:7).

And Rabbi Chutspit is in Sheviit only (Mishnah Sheviit 10:6).

And Rabbi Eliezer ben Yehudah the man of Bartota and Dostai the man of Kfar Dima are only in Orlah (Mishnah Orlah 1:4 and Mishnah Orlah 2:5).

Nachum the Mede is only in Shabbat (Mishnah Shabbat 2:1).

And Rabbi (Elazar) [Elaai] and Rabbi Dostai beRebbe Yannai are in Eruvin (Mishnah Eruvin 2:6 and Mishnah Eruvin 5:4).

And Rabbi Shimon ben HaSagan and Ben Bukhari are only in Shekalim (Mishnah Shekalim 1:4 and Mishnah Shekalim 8:5).

And Yehudah ben Tabai, Shimon ben Shetach, Yose ben Yoezer, Yose ben Yochanan, Nitai HaArbeli and Yehoshua ben Perachiah are only in Chagigah (Mishnah Chagigah 2:2).

And Shimon HaTeimani and Nechemiah the man of Beit Deli are only in Yevamot (Mishnah Yevamot 4:13 and Mishnah Yevamot 16:7).

And Rabbi Elazar the son of Rabbi Yose HaGalili and Rabbi Yehoshua ben Horkanos are only in Sotah (Mishnah Sotah 7:9). Yedua the Babylonian is only in Metzia (Mishnah Bava Metzia 7:9).

Rabbi Shimon ben Yehudah is only in Shevuot (Mishnah Shevuot 1:5).

And Rabbi Shimon ben Beteira, Rabbi Nechuniah ben Elinatan man of Kfar HaBavli, Rabbi Yose the Priest, Rabbi Yakim man of Chadid and Menachem ben Seganai are only in Eduyot (Mishnah Eduyot 6:2, Mishnah Eduyot 7:5-8 and Mishnah Eduyot 8:1-2).

And Shimon the brother of Azariah and Yose ben Choni are only in Zevachim (Mishnah Zevachim 1:2).

And Rabbi Elazar beRebbe Shimon is only in Temurah (Mishnah Temurah 4:4),

And Rabbi Yaakov is only in Negaim (Mishnah Negaim 4:10).

And Rabbi Elazar ben Pavi is only in Tractate Tahorot (Mishnah Tahorot 7:9).

And Rabbi Yochanan ben Yeshua the son of the father-in-law of Rabbi Akiva is only in Yadayim (Mishnah Yadayim 3:5).

All of these men enumerated here only had one law in all of the laws of the Mishnah, in the tractates that we mentioned.

And we have already completed the matter that we wanted to preface. And now we will begin to explain [the Mishnah] according to what we planned.