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1)

(a)What are the names of the two pipes that are subject to Shechitah?

(b)What basic distinction does the Mishnah draw between the Shechitah of a bird and that of an animal?

(c)Why does the Tana then write 'ha'Shochet' (Bedi'eved)?

(d)Another reason for this is the Tana's following statement 've'Rubo shel Echad Kamohu'. What does that mean?

(e)What is the Din Lechatchilah?

2)

(a)We learn the Din of 'Echad ba'Of' from the Pasuk in Shemini "Zos Toras ha'Beheimah ve'ha'Of, ve'Chol Nefesh ha'Chayah ha'Romeses ba'Mayim". What is the basic difference between animals and fish to which the Tana is referring?

(b)How do we now learn the Din of birds from there?

(c)What is the source for the five things ('Shehiyah, D'rasah, Chaladah, Hagramah and Ikur') that render a Shechitah Pasul?

(d)How is this hinted in the Pasuk in Re'ei "ve'Zavachta ... ka'asher Tzivisicha"?

(e)What else is included in the Halachah le'Moshe mi'Sinai (besides the Din of 'Rov Echad ba'Of ve'Rov Shenayim ba'Beheimah')?

3)

(a)What does Rebbi Yehudah say about the Varidin (the two large blood-vessels that flank the Kaneh?

(b)To which species is he referring?

(c)Why does he consider this necessary?

(d)Seeing as it is not necessary to Shecht them in order to achieve this, why does Rebbi Yehudah use the word 'she'Yishchot'?

(e)Like whom is the Halachah?

4)

(a)What distinction does the Mishnah finally draw between Shechting half of ...

1. ... a Si'man of a bird and the majority of the Si'man?

2. ... the two Simanim of an animal and the majority of the Simanim?

(b)On what condition is the Shechitah Kasher?

(c)Having ruled earlier 'Rov Echad ba'Beheimah', why does the Mishnah see fit to repeat the same ruling here?

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5)

(a)What does the Tana say about ...

1. ... someone who Shechts the heads of two animals simultaneously?

2. ... two people who Shecht one animal together?

(b)What does he mean when he adds 'Afilu Echad Lema'alah ve'Echad Lematah'?

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6)

(a)What does the Mishnah say about someone who severs the head in one stroke?

(b)Why is that?

(c)On what condition is the Shechitah Kasher if one severs the head of ...

1. ... one animal whilst pulling the knife in one direction?

2. ... two animals whilst pulling the knife in one direction?

(d)What if one severs the head whilst moving the knife away and back?

7)

(a)In the previous case, the Tana validates the Shechitah even if one used an Izmal. What is an 'Izmal'?

(b)Why might we have thought that the Shechitah is invalidat, even if he used a plain Izmal?

8)

(a)What does the Mishnah rule in a case where a knife Shechts an animal after falling from someone's hand?

(b)How do we learn this from the Pasuk in Ki Savo "ve'Zavachta ve'Achalta"?

(c)What does this imply regarding someone throws the knife, which incidentally Shechts an animal in flight?

(d)Why is the Shechitah not Pasul, since it was performed without Kavanah to actually Shecht?

9)

(a)What is the Tana referring to when he presents a case where ...

1. ... the knife or some of the Shochet's clothes fell and he picked them up?

2. ... the Shochet sharpened his knife and became tired?

(b)According to the Tana Kama, if the person who completed the Shechitah (See Tosfos Yom-Tov) waited the time it would take to Shecht ('K'dei Shechitah'), the Shechitah is Pasul. What kind of animal or bird is he referring to (when he says 'to complete the Shechitah)?

(c)How must it be placed?

(d)What does he mean by 'K'dei Shechitah'?

10)

(a)According to the Rambam, if the Shochet is Shechting a bird, 'K'dei Shchitah' refers to the Shechitah of a small animal. What else, according to him, does 'K'dei Shechitah incorporate?

(b)What is the accepted Minhag?

(c)Rebbi Shimon disagrees with the Tana Kama's Shi'ur of Shehiyah (waiting). How does he portray it?

(d)Like whom is the Halachah?

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11)

(a)The Tana now discusses a case where the Shochet Shechts either the Kaneh or the Gargeres, but broke the second pipe, or either let the animal die without Shechting it or Shechted it from underneath. Why is the Shechitah Pasul ...

1. ... in the former case?

2. ... in the latter case?

(b)Rebbi Yesheivav declares the animal ia Neveilah. What does Rebbi Akiva say?

(c)What is the difference between a Neveilah and a T'reifah?

12)

(a)What principle did Rebbi Yesheivav cite in the name of Rebbi Yehoshua to differentiate between a P'sul that occurs in the Shechitah and one that is caused externally?

(b)Where are the external Pesulim listed?

(c)What did Rebbi Akiva say to that?

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13)

(a)What does the Mishnah say about the Shechitah of a Chayah, a Beheimah or a bird that does not produce blood?

(b)The Tana permits eating from it with Tamei hands, even though the Tana is speaking about Chulin which is being prepared 'al Taharas ha'Kodesh'. What is the significance of the fact that there is no blood?

(c)Why will it be forbidden to do so if there is blood?

(d)Why can the Mishnah not be speaking about an ordinary Chulin animal?

14)

(a)What does Rebbi Shimon say about an animal whose Shechitah does not produce blood.

(b)On what grounds does he disagree with the Tana Kama?

(c)Like whom is the Halachah?

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15)

(a)The Mishnah now discusses a Mesukenes. What exactly is a 'Mesukenes'?

(b)What if it is nevertheless able to eat, even chunks of wood?

(c)According to Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel, what must the animal do after the Shechitah, for the Shechitah to be Kasher?

(d)Why is that?

(e)Rebbi Eliezer is more lenient than Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel. What does he say

16)

(a)What does Rebbi Shimon say about a Mesukenes that one Shechts at nighttime, that conforms to the opinion of Rebbi Eliezer?

(b)The Chachamim too, are more lenient than the Tana Kama. On what condition do they validate the Shechitah of a Mesukenes (besides if it's fore or hind leg shudders?

(c)On what condition will the Shechitah of a small animal that is a Mesukenes be Kasher if it stretches out a foreleg after is has been Shechted?

(d)Why is that?

(e)What if the animal stretches out its hind leg but does not withdraw it?

17)

(a)Like whom is the Halachah (See also Pirush ha'Mishnayos le'ha'Rambam)?

(b)What does the Tana finally say about an animal that is not a Mesukenes in connection with the above rulings?

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18)

(a)According to the Tana Kama, Shechitah on behalf of a Nochri is Kasher. On what condition does Rebbi Eliezer declare it Pasul?

(b)What if the Nochri ...

1. ... only intends to eat from the lobe of the liver?

2. ... does not intend to eat from it at all?

(c)What is Rebbi Eliezer's reason?

19)

(a)Rebbi Yossi disagrees with Rebbi Eliezer. What does he say?

(b)How does he learn this via a Kal va'Chomer from Kodshim?

(c)How does the Gemara solve the problem that P'sul Machshavah applies to where one Shechts to Avodah-Zarah too?

(d)To which ...

1. ... four Avodos does the P'sul of Pigul apply?

2. ... two Avodos does the P'sul of Machsheves Avodah-Zarah apply

(e)What is the significance of the two Pesukim "Zove'ach la'Elohim Yocharam" (Mishpatim) and "Bal Asich Niskeihem mi'Dam" (Tehilim)?

20)

(a)Why does the previous ruling not apply to burning?

(b)Like whom is the Halachah?

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21)

(a)What does the Mishnah say about someone who Shechts in the name of mountains, hills, seas, rivers or deserts?

(b)Why is the animal not Asur be'Hana'ah because of Avodah-Zarah?

(c)How do we learn this from the Pasuk in Re'ei "Eloheihem al he'Harom"?

(d)Then why is the Shechitah Pasul?

(e)What if one ...

1. ... Shechts in the name of the angel who is in charge of the mountains?

2. ... of two people who are Shechting the animal Shechts in the name of mountains ... , and the other one Shechts S'tam?

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22)

(a)Why does the Tana forbid Shechting into ...

1. ... the sea or into a river?

2. ... a vessel?

(b)He does however, permit Shechting into a pit of dirty water. Why does he forbid it if the water is clear?

(c)And why does he ...

1. ... permit Shechting into the sea via Keilim, if he is in a boat?

2. ... forbid Shechting into an empty pit even in the house

(d)What is one nevertheless permitted to do when Shechting in a Chatzer that one wishes to keep clean?

(e)Why is this forbidden in the public street?

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23)

(a)What does the Mishnah say about someone who Shechts in the name of an Olah, a Shelamim, or an Asham Taluy, a Korban Pesach or a Todah?

(b)What is an Asham Taluy?

(c)What is an example of why one brings it?

24)

(a)What is the reason for the current ruling?

(b)Seeing as the ruling is confined to a Korban Nedavah, why does the Tana include in the list ...

1. ... an Asham Taluy?

2. ... a Korban Pesach?

(c)On what grounds does Rebbi Shimon consider all the above a Kasher Shechitah?

(d)What does the Tana say in a case where one of two people who are Shechting an animal Shechts in the name of one of the above, whilst the other one Shechts S'tam?

25)

(a)The Mishnah now declares Kasher a Shechitah in the name of a Chatas, an Asham Vaday, a B'chor (Beheimah), a Ma'aser Beheimah animal or a Temurah. Why is that?

(b)What does 'Asham Vaday' incorporate (See Tosfos Yom Tov)?

(c)What is the Tana coming to include when he continues that whatever is Nidar ve'Nidav is Pasul?

(d)Why is it not obvious that the owner is not a Nazir, seeing as ...

1. ... nobody knows that he is?

2. ... he does not have long hair?

26)

(a)And what is the Mishnah referring to when it concludes 'Whatever is not Nidar ve'Nidav, is Kasher, to include the Olah of a Yoledes?

(b)Why is it Kasher even in a case where the woman concerned did not in fact, give birth (in which case people will think that it must be a Nedavah)?

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