Can anyone tell me what the Jewish/Hebrew word "blatt" means in English?

Question

As in, "He studied two blatt of the Talmud a day." As used in the Chosen by Chaim Potok. Thanks!

Answer 1

The Talmud is numbered in folios- so you talk about 2a. 2b.3a, 3b etc referring to each side of the folio.

When you discuss the Talmud- the entire folio is referenced as a Daf (so as you see in my profile I study a daf a day- i.e. a folio feach day).  One side of the folion is called an amud - in other words- 2a on its own where the daf references both 2a and 2b.

In communities where Yiddish is commonly used- the term daf is replaced by blatt to refer to the entire folio.

Answer 2

Blatt is the German word for a leaf. So here it's a page.

He studied 2 pages of Talmud a day.