What eight million citations know that no index does.

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The sources the most works return to.

Mishnah Kiddushin 1:1 · 3,403 edges · 407 distinct works

Ask the whole graph a quiet question: which passages does the tradition keep coming back to? Not the loudest — the most widely held. Count distinct works, not raw edges, so no single book can manufacture the effect by repeating itself. What rises are the load-bearing stones: the opening Mishnah of kinyan, the battleground daf of Shabbat, the gateway Mishnah of Eruvin. Pick one and come close — you'll hear who cites it, in their own Hebrew.

Look at how little the Mishnah says: money. Document. Cohabitation. Three ways — and then it stops. But the tradition does not stop. In the live graph, 407 separate works come back to this one Mishnah — not 407 citations, 407 works, across 3,403 recorded edges. More than any other single Mishnah. And no one book manufactures it: the loudest contributes only 7%. Now come close. The Rif brings a cup promised as wine and found to be honey. The Rambam brings the moment she gives, and she speaks.

Foundational passages · ranked by distinct works

• 01Mishnah Kiddushin 1:1407 works
• 02Shabbat 108b293 works
• 03Mishnah Eruvin 1:1130 works