Overstuffing one’s self with dates is dangerous even though:
- dates are one of the Shivas haMinim for which Eretz Yisrael is praised.
- date trees are very tall.
- dates satiate, warm, stop constipation, energize and do not make one finicky.
- dates are very sweet.
- the date tree is the tree from which Lulavim are taken
The following things weaken a person.
- Fear, travel, and wrongdoing.
- Travel, wrongdoing, and cold.
- Traveling in a dangerous area, and drinking bad wine.
- Fear, travel, and eating too many dates.
- Eating too many dates and drinking bad wine.
Rav Yochanon compares a person seized with Kordaikus to a
- Sick person.
- Sleeping person.
- An insane person.
- Person who was just stabbed and will soon die.
- Person found cut up or hanging.
Rav Yochanan does not compare a person seized with Kordaikus to a sleeping person because:
- A person becomes seized with Kordaikus while awake.
- An action is necessary to cure Kordaikus, but a person wakes up from sleeping on his own.
- A person seized with Kordaikus has difficulty falling asleep.
- Answers A and B.
- Answers A and C.
A man unable to speak is tested to make sure that he does not have a sickness causing him to nod by
- Asking him three questions with alternating answers of “yes” and “no.”
- Asking him if he would like us to bring him out of season fruit.
- Asking him if he has a sickness causing him to nod.
- Answers A and B.
- Answers B and C.