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1)

(a)The Mishnah discusses someone who has been forcibly taken and placed outside his T'chum on Shabbos by Nochrim or via a Ru'ach Ra'ah. What does 'Ru'ach Ra'ah' mean?

(b)What does the Tana say about him?

(c)What if they duly returned him to his original location?

(d)How would the Din differ if he ...

1. ... went outside the T'chum of his own volition?

2. ... returned of his own volition?

2)

(a)What do Raban Gamliel and Rebbi Elazar ben Azaryah say in a case where the robbers or the Ru'ach Ra'ah carried him to a walled city or deposited him (See Tos. Yom-Tov) inside a large pen ('Dir' or 'Sohar' See Tiferes Yisrael)?

(b)Rebbi Yehoshua and Rebbi Akiva nevertheless restrict him to his four Amos. This may be because, since he did not 'rest' within the air of the Mechitzos before Shabbos, the Mechitzos will not affect him. What other reason may there be to forbid him to walk more than four Amos?

3)

(a)The Mishnah now discusses what a group of Tana'im did when they came from P'randisin. What does the Tana mean when he says 've'Hifligah Sefinasam ba'Yam'?

(b)Raban Gamliel and Rebbi Elazar ben Azaryah walked around the entire ship. Why is that?

4)

(a)Rebbi Yehoshua and Rebbi Akiva declined to walk more than four Amos. What was the basis of this Chumra?

(b)Why might we have thought that specifically Rebbi Yehoshua and Rebbi Akiva had a Halachic basis for their stringent ruling?

(c)There are two reasons as to why this is not the case; one of them, because as long as the ship was moving, there was no reason to forbid it (See Tos. Yom-Tov). What is the other?

(d)Like whom is the Halachah in both cases?

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5)

(a)On another occasion, the ship on which the Tana'im were travelling only arrived at the port after Shabbos had entered. What did they ask Raban Gamliel?

(b)What was the basis of their She'eilah?

(c)On what grounds did he permit them to disembark?

(d)How did he know that?

(e)Why can the city at which they arrived not have been walled?

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6)

(a)The Mishnah now discusses someone who left the T'chum Shabbos 'with permission'. What does this mean?

(b)What happened when he arrived at his destination?

(c)What does the Tana rule?

(d)And what does he mean when he adds ...

1. ... 'Im Hayah be'Soch ha'T'chum, ke'Ilu Lo Yatza'?

2. ... 'she'Kol ha'Yotz'in Lehatzil, Chozrin li'Mekoman'?

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7)

(a)What problem does Rebbi Meir have with a traveler who stops to rest on Friday afternoon before Shabbos enters, and when, after nightfall, he proceeds on his way, he discovers that he is within the T'chum of a town? Why is he not considered as if he was in the town?

(b)What does he mean when he says 'Lo Yikaneis'?

(c)What does Rebbi Yehudah say?

(d)How does Rebbi Yehudah prove his opinion from Rebbi Tarfon?

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8)

(a)According to Rebbi Yochanan ben Nuri, a traveler who falls asleep on Friday afternoon and is unaware when Shabbos enters, nevertheless has two thousand Amos from the spot where he fell asleep. What do the Chachamim say?

(b)From which Pasuk in Beshalach do they learn that he at least has four Amos?

(c)How do they learn it from there?

(d)What is the basis of their Machlokes?

(e)Like whom is the Halachah regarding ...

1. ... objects that are Hefker?

2. ... a sleeping person?

9)

(a)What does Rebbi Eliezer mean when he says "ve'Hu be'Emtza'an'?

(b)What does Rebbi Yehudah say?

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10)

(a)What does the Mishnah say about two people whose Techumin inter-lap eating together?

(b)What if they are three people, and the T'chumin of the outer two inter-lap with the one in the middle, but not with each other?

(c)Rebbi Shimon compares this to three courtyard one beside the other, where the outer two open into the R'shus ha'Rabim. What will be the Din if the outer two Chatzeiros made an Eiruv with the middle Chatzer, but not with each other?

(d)Why do the outer two not forbid each other from carrying in the domain of the middle one?

11)

(a)What do the Chachamim say with regard to the case of the three ...

1. ... travelers?

2. ... courtyards?

(b)Why the difference?

(c)Like whom is the Halachah?

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12)

(a)What does the Mishnah say about a traveler who spots a tree or a wall that is within two thousand Amos from where he is, but who is too tired to continue walking, and before lying down to rest he declares 'Shevisasi Tachtav!'?

(b)Why is that?

(c)Why is he only permitted to walk within his four Amos? Why is he not at least Koneh Shevisah in his current location?

13)

(a)On what condition would it be valid, even though he added nothing to his declaration?

(b)What would he need to say that would enable him to walk further, irrespective of the span of the branches?

(c)How far would he then be permitted to walk?

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14)

(a)What would the traveler have to say if there was no tree or any other landmark, to enable him to walk another two thousand Amos?

(b)Which other case does the Tana add (even assuming that there was a tree at the end of two thousand Amos)?

(c)According to Rebbi Chanina ben Antignos, the two thousand Amos constitute a circle. What is the equivalent Din by the Arei Miklat (the cities of refuge)? Are they round or square?

(d)What is the source of T'chumin?

(e)On what grounds (based on the Pasuk in Mas'ei "Zeh Yih'yeh lahem Migr'shei he'Arim") does Rebbi Chanina then rule that here they are round?

15)

(a)What do the Chachamim say?

(b)Who is the more lenient?

(c)Bearing in mind the Pasuk in Mas'ei, on what grounds do they rule here that the two thousand Amos are square?

(d)How does the Rambam explain the expression 'keTivla Meruba'as' (as opposed to 'be'Rivu'a')?

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16)

(a)What does Rebbi Meir mean when he says 've'Zu Hi she'Amru 'he'Ani Me'arev be'Raglav'?

(b)What are the ramifications of this statement?

(c)What does Rebbi Yehudah say?

(d)Why, according to him, did the Chachamim institute an Eiruv using bread?

(e)Like whom is the Halachah?

17)

(a)What will both Rebbi Meir and Rebbi Yehudah hold with regard to someone who declares 'Shevisasi be'Makom P'loni'? Which one of two conditions must he meet in order to be Koneh Shevisah?

(b)Which additional condition does one require in order to be Koneh Shevisah from a distance?

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18)

(a)The Mishnah discusses someone who sets out to place an Eiruv on behalf of the people of his city, and his friend stopped him and persuaded him to return home. Why did he do that?

(b)What does Rebbi Yehudah say about that?

(c)Why is he permitted?

19)

(a)Rebbi Meir says that since he could have placed the Eiruv but didn't, 'Harei Hu Chamar Gamal'. What does he mean by that?

(b)What is Rebbi Meir's reason?

(c)Like whom is the Halachah?

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20)

(a)What does the Tana Kama say about someone who stepped one Amah outside his T'chum (i.e. beyond two thousand and four Amos)?

(b)How far does he allow him to walk?

(c)Why does the fact that the four Amos that he is allowed to walk overlaps the four Amos next to the city not permit him to enter the city?

21)

(a)What distinction does Rebbi Eliezer draw between a man who is standing two Amos beyond his T'chum and three?

(b)What is the significance of the two Amos?

(c)In which point does Rebbi Eliezer disagree with the Tana Kama?

(d)Like whom is the Halachah?

22)

(a)What does the Mishnah say about a traveler who is one Amah short of the T'chum of the city (See Tiferes Yisrael)?

(b)Rebbi Shimon is more lenient. What does he say?

(c)What is his reason?

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