Mishnah 1
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1)
(a)

The Mishnah opens its list of Chayvei Malkos with the words 've'Eilu hein ha'Lokin'. What can we comment on the word 'Eilu'?

(b)

The first six cases that the Tana does list are all taken from the Parshah of Arayos. But are not all of these subject to Kareis?

(c)

Five of these are someone who has relations with his sister, his paternal or maternal aunt, his wife's sister or his brother's wife (See Tos. Yom-Tov). What is the sixth?

(d)

On what basis did the Tana decide to insert the cases that he did.

2)
(a)

The next two groups, incorporating P'sulei Kehunah and P'sulei Kahal, comprise a. Almanah le'Kohen Gadol and Gerushah le'Kohen Hedyot, and b. Mamzeres le'Yisrael. Which additional case does the Tana insert in the P'sulei ...

1.

... Kehunah?

2.

... Pesulei Kahal?

(b)

What is the definition of 'a Nesinah'?

(c)

From which Pasuk in Ki Seitzei do we learn the Isur of having relations with her?

(d)

What about the reverse case (where a bas Yisrael marries a Nasin or a Mamzer)

3)
(a)

How many Malkos will a Kohen ...

1.

... Gadol who has relations with a woman who is both an Almanah and a Gerushah receive?

2.

... Hedyot who has relations with a woman who is both a Gerushah and a Chalutzah receive?

(b)

What is the reason for the latter?

(c)

How do we learn it from the Pasuk in Emor "ve'Ishah Gerushah me'Iyshah Lo Yikachu"?

Mishnah 2
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4)
(a)

One of the Isurei Tum'ah that receive Malkos is a Tamei person who eats Kodesh . What is the other?

(b)

Four of the five cases of Isurei Achilah listed next are Cheilev, Dam, Pigul and Nosar. What is the fifth?

(c)

And one of the two cases of someone who sacrifices a Korban outside the Azarah is Shechting it there. What is the other?

(d)

The next two items are someone who eats Chametz on Pesach or on Yom Kipur. Which other Isur of Yom Kipur is subject to Malkos?

5)
(a)

The next two items are 'ha'Mefatem es ha'Shemen' and 'ha'Mefatem es ha'Ketores'. What does ha'Mefatem mean?

(b)

To which oil does 'ha'Mefatem es ha'Shemen' pertain?

(c)

What is the Tana referring to when he continues 'ha'Sach be'Shemen ha'Mishchah'? What does 'ha'Sach' mean?

6)
(a)

Which are the two most commonly quoted types of forbidden meat that head the list which continues 'Shekatzim and Remasim (See Tos. Yom-Tov)?

(b)

The next four items are Tevel, Ma'aser Rishon, Ma'aser Sheini and Hekdesh. How do we learn the La'av of Tevel from the Pasuk in Emor "ve'Lo Yechal'lu es Kodshei b'nei Yisrael asher Yarimu la'Hashem"? How does the Tana know that this Pasuk is speaking about Tevel?

(c)

On what condition is ...

1.

... Ma'aser Rishon subject to a La'av?

2.

... Ma'aser Sheini (that has not been redeemed) subject to a La'av?

3.

... Hekdesh subject to a La'av?

(d)

There is no specific Pasuk regarding the latter, and we learn it from a Gezeirah-Shavah "Chet" "Chet". From where do we learn it?

(e)

To reconcile this with the fact that we preclude Me'ilah (using Hekdesh) from the Pasuk in Emor (in connection with T'rumah) "u'Meisu bo" - "bo", 'bi'Terumah, ve'Lo bi'Me'ilah', how do we establish the latter D'rashah?

7)
(a)

Which of the above cases do we learn from the Pasuk in Korach "ve'Nechshav lachem Terumaschem ka'Dagan min ha'Goren"?

(b)

What dual Limud do we learn from the Pasuk in Ki Savo (in connection with Ma'aser Sheini) "ve'Lo Bi'arti mimenu be'Tamei"?

(c)

And what do we learn from the Pasuk in Re'ei "Lo Suchal le'Ochlo" (in connection with eating Ma'aser Sheini in Yerushalayim)? What is the owner therefore permitted to do?

8)
(a)

According to Rebbi Shimon, the Shi'ur for eating Tevel is a Kol Shehu. What do the Chachamim say?

(b)

Rebbi Shimon supports his opinion from someone who eats an ant. What do we learn from the Pasuk in Shemini "Sheretz ha'Shoretz al ha'Aretz"?

(c)

How do the Chachamim refute his proof?

(d)

How does Rebbi Shimon counter their refutation?

(e)

Why is the Halachah nevertheless not like Rebbi Shimon?

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9)
(a)

On what condition does the Mishnah sentence someone who eats Bikurim to Malkos?

(b)

Why is one not Chayav after that?

(c)

This is the opinion of Rebbi Akiva. What do the Chachamim say?

(d)

Which of the two comes first?

(e)

Like whom is the Halachah?

10)
(a)

How do we learn the La'av regarding Bikurim from the Pasuk in Re'ei "Lo Suchal Le'echol bi'She'arecha ... u'Serumas Yadecha"?

(b)

Why can it not be referring to Terumah?

(c)

From when on do Bikurim become subject to Malkos?

11)
(a)

On what condition does the Mishnah sentence to receive Malkos someone who eats ...

1.

... Kodshei Kodshim?

2.

... Kodshim Kalim and Ma'aser Sheini?

(b)

How do we learn all the current cases from the Pasuk in Re'ei "Lo Suchal Le'echol bi'She'arecha ... ve'Chol Nedarecha asher Tidor"?

(c)

The Tana listed earlier Ma'aser Sheini Tamei that has not been redeemed. Then what does the La'av here refer to?

(d)

Based on the Pasuk there "Lifnei Hash-m Elokecha Tochlenu" (which precedes "Lo Suchal Le'echol ... "), at which point does Ma'aser Sheini become subject to Malkos?

12)
(a)

On what condition does one receive Malkos for breaking the bone of a Korban Pesach?

(b)

Based on the Pasuk in Bo "ve'Etzem Lo Sishb'ru bo", why is someone who breaks the bone of a Tamei Korban Pesach not also subject to Malkos?

(c)

One of the reasons that one does one not receive Malkos for leaving over a piece of Korban Pesach (Nosar) is because it is a La'av she'Ein bo Ma'aseh (a La'av where no act is performed, which is not subject to Malkos [See Tos. Yom-Tov]). What is the other?

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13)
(a)

According to Rebbi Yehudah, someone who takes a mother bird together with the babies receives Malkos and does not need to send the mother away. What do the Chachamim say?

(b)

On what principle is their ruling based?

(c)

Why does their opinion appear more logical than that of Rebbi Yehudah?

(d)

How does Rebbi Yehudah explain the Pasuk?

(e)

Like whom is the Halachah?

14)
(a)

Another example of a La'av ha'Nitak la'Asei is that of a creditor who enters the debtor's house to take a security against the loan ("Lo Savo el Beiso La'avot Avoto" [ki Seitzei]). Which Asei must he fulfill (according to the Chachamim) in order to avoid Malkos?

(b)

On what condition will he nevertheless receive Malkos in the case of ...

1.

... "Lo Sikach ha'Eim ... "?

2.

.... "Lo Sa'avot Avoto"?

(c)

Why is that?

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15)
(a)

Two of the three Chayvei Malkos connected with shaving are making a bald patch on one's head and rounding the head. What is the third?

(b)

What does 'rounding the head' mean?

(c)

On what condition is one Chayav for making a bald patch?

(d)

Bearing in mind that, by the same La'av regarding Kohanim, the Torah omits the word "le'Meis", from where do we know that a Kohen is not otherwise Chayav?

16)
(a)

What is the minimum size patch that renders one Chayav?

(b)

What is the basic difference between the La'av of destroying one's beard and that of rounding one's head?

(c)

Why does the Tana include these La'avin in the list? What do the first La'av and the following one ('ha'Soret Seritah Achas ... ') have in common that is obvious by eating Cheilev and most other La'avin?

17)
(a)

On what condition is one Chayav for making a cut on one's skin?

(b)

We have already explained that someone who makes five cuts for one Meis is subject to five sets of Malkos. How many sets of Malkos will he receive if he makes one cut for five dead people?

(c)

How do we learn both Dinim from the Pasuk in Kedoshim "ve'Seret la'Nefesh Lo Sitnu"?

18)
(a)

According to the Tana Kama, how many sets of Malkos does one receive for ...

1.

... shaving off one's Peyos?

2.

... destroying the corners of one's beard?

(b)

If, regarding the latter, one of the five locations is the chin, where are the other four located?

(c)

On what condition does Rebbi Eliezer maintain, in each of the two precious cases, that one receives only one set of Malkos?

(d)

Why is that?

(e)

To what does he compare it?

19)
(a)

As we already learned, the Tana Kama confines removing one's beard to where one does so using a razor. From where does he learn this?

(b)

According to Rebbi Eliezer, he is Chayav even if he uses a 'Malkeit' or a 'Rehitni'. What is ...

1.

... a Malkeit?

2.

... a Rehitni?

(c)

Like whom is the Halachah?

Mishnah 6
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20)
(a)

The next case of Chiyuv Malkos listed in the Mishnah is Kesoves Ka'aka. What is Kesoves Ka'aka?

(b)

What does it entail?

(c)

Is one Chayav for either writing on the skin without making a cut or for making a cut without writing on it?

(d)

Bearing in mind that the correct order is first to cut and then to write on it, why does the Mishnah say 'ad she'Yichtov vi'Yeka'aka'?

(e)

How do we then explain the Pasuk?

21)
(a)

What if one writes, not with ink, but with ...

1.

... red paint?

2.

... anything that leaves a mark?

(b)

What does Rebbi Shimon ben Yehudah say in the name of Rebbi Shimon? What one must one add in order to be Chayav?

(c)

How does ...

1.

... the Tana learn it from the Pasuk in Kedoshim "u'Chesoves Ka'aka Lo Sitnu bi'Vesarchem ...)? How does the Pasuk conclude?

2.

... the Gemara explain 'the Name of Hashem'?

(d)

How will we then explain the Pasuk?

(e)

Like whom is the Halachah?

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22)
(a)

The Mishnah discusses someone who transgresses a La'av a number of times consecutively. On what condition ...

1.

... is a Nazir who drinks wine all day subject to Malkos even once?

2.

... will he receive as many sets of Malkos as there are Revi'iyos in the cup?

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23)
(a)

On what condition is a Nazir or a Kohen who spends all day in a graveyard Chayav one set of Malkos for each time he touches a grave or walks over it (See Tos. Yom-Tov), even though he did not leave the graveyard?

24)
(a)

By the same token, what does the Mishnah say about someone who spends all day shaving off his beard?

(b)

On what condition does the Tana sentence him to more than one set of Malkos?

(c)

And by the same token again, on what condition does the Mishnah sentence someone who wears Sha'atnez all day to more than one Malkos?

(d)

What does the Tana really mean when he says that he takes off the garment and puts it on again?

(e)

How does the Gemara finally explain the Mishnah? How is he Chayav for each warning even though he did not take off the garment at all?

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25)
(a)

How many possible La'avin does the Mishnah list regarding someone who plows one furrow.

(b)

On what condition will he actually receive Malkos?

(c)

The Tana presents a case of someone who plows with an ox and a donkey ("Lo Sachrosh be'Shor va'Chamor Yachdav") which are Hekdesh. If the ox is Kodshei Mizbe'ach - what is the donkey.

(d)

Which La'av does he transgress on the donkey.

(e)

Whereas the La'av for working with the former is "Lo Sachrosh bi'Vechor Shorecha", there is no specific Pasuk for Me'ilah. From where do we learn it with the Gezeirah-Shavah "Chet" "Chet".

26)
(a)

The fourth La'av is Kil'ayim be'Kerem ("Lo Sizra Karm'cha Kil'ayim". What does it entail?

(b)

Why is he Chayav for sowing, when all he did was to plow?

(c)

The Rambam considers 'Kil'ayim be'Kerem' two La'avin. Which two La'avin?

(d)

Which of the above three La'avin does he therefore eliminate?

27)
(a)

What is ...

1.

... the fifth La'av (based on the Pasuk "Shabbos la'Hashem Sadcha Lo Tizra")?

2.

... the sixth La'av (based on the Pasuk "Kol Meleches Avodah Lo Sa'asu")?

(b)

The seventh La'av is that of a Kohen in a Beis-ha'Kevaros ("le'Nefesh Lo Yitama be'Amav"). What is the eighth?

28)
(a)

Which ninth La'av does Chanina ben Chachinai add to the list?

(b)

On what grounds do the Chachamim object to that?

(c)

How does he counter that by referring to Nazir"?

(d)

What do the Chachamim reply? Why is Nazir different?

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29)
(a)

How many lashes does a person who is Chayav Malkos receive?

(b)

Why does the Tana refer to it as 'forty minus one'?

(c)

How does he learn this from the words "be'Mispar Arba'im"?

(d)

What would the Torah have meant to say had it written "Arba'im ba'Mispar"?

30)
(a)

According to the Tana Kama, why does the Torah prescribe thirty nine lashes and not forty?

(b)

What does Rebbi Yehudah say?

(c)

According to him, where do Beis-Din administer the fortieth lash?

(d)

Like whom is the Halachah?

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31)
(a)

What do we learn from the Pasuk "Lo Yosif" (regarding the number of lashes the sinner receives)?

(b)

How do they work out exactly how many lashes to give him?

(c)

Then why does the Mishnah refer to a total of forty lashes?

32)
(a)

What will be the Din where they initially assess that the sinner ...

1.

... is able to take the full amount, but after receiving some of the lashes, the doctor assesses that he cannot take anymore?

2.

... can only take eighteen lashes, but after having received them, they decide that he is able to take the full amount?

(b)

The Tana now discusses a case where the sinner transgressed a La'av that is subject to two sets of Malkos. What will be the Din if they declare him able to take forty-two lashes?

(c)

And on what condition will they wait until he has recovered before giving him the rest?

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33)
(a)

The Mishnah now describes the Malkos process. Where are the sinner's hands tied?

(b)

How tall is the Amud? How is it arranged?

34)
(a)

The Chazan ha'Kenesses then grabs hold of his clothes. Who is he Chazan ha'Keneses?

(b)

Where does he grab them?

(c)

How far down does he pull his clothes?

(d)

What if he inadvertently tears them or if the seams come apart?

35)
(a)

What is the purpose of the stone that is placed behind the sinner? Who stands on it?

(b)

Why does he hold specifically a strap made of calf -leather?

(c)

How many times is it folded?

36)
(a)

What are the two thin straps that run alongside the calf-leather strap made of?

(b)

On which Pasuk in Yeshayah are the two kinds of straps based?

(c)

What message does this convey?

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37)
(a)

What are the measurements of the strap's handle is one Tefach.

(b)

Up to where must the actual strap reach?

(c)

Bearing in mind that each person is a different size, how do they organize this?

(d)

We have already learned that the sinner receives one third of the lashes in front and two thirds at the back. Based on the Pasuk "Vehipilo ha'Shofet", whilst the sinner is being lashed, how is the sinner placed?

(e)

How does the Chazan ha'Keneses ...

1.

... hold the whip?

2.

... administer the lashes?

Mishnah 14
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38)
(a)

What do we learn from the Pasuk in Kedoshim (in connection with a Shifchah Charufah) "Bikores Tih'yeh"?

(b)

Which Two Pesukim (from the K'lalos in Ki Savo) does one read (See Tos. Yom-Tov & Tiferes Yisrael)?

(c)

Which of the Dayanim read them out?

(d)

What do the Dayanin who are second and third to him, respectively, do?

39)
(a)

What does the chief Dayan who is reading the Pesukim try to do?

(b)

What if the Pesukim terminate before the Chazan has completed the lashes?

(c)

On what grounds is the Chazan generally Patur from Galus should the sinner die during the Malkos?

(d)

On what condition will he nevertheless be Chayav?

40)
(a)

What does the Tana Kama say about a sinner who, whilst the Malkos is being delivered ...

1.

... urinates?

2.

... defacates?

(b)

From which Pasuk does he learn this?

(c)

What does Rebbi Yehudah say about it? What distinction does he draw between a man and a woman?

(d)

Why the difference?

(e)

Like whom is the Halachah?

41)
(a)

What does Rebbi Chananya ben Gamliel say about all Chayvei K'risus who received Malkos?

(b)

How does he learn it from the Pasuk in Ki Seitzei "ve'Niklah Achicha le'Einecha"?

(c)

On what condition is he Patur from Kareis?

42)
(a)

What Kal va'Chomer does Rebbi Chananya ben Gamliel learn from his previous statement with regards to someone who performs one Mitzvah?

(b)

Which Mitzvah is he referring to?

(c)

On what principle is Rebbi Chananya ben Gamliel's second statement based?

(d)

How do others explain his second statement, independently of his first one?

43)
(a)

How does Rebbi Shimon learn the same concept from the Pasuk in Acharei-Mos that mentions the Chiyuv Kareis, when it continues " ... asher Ya'aseh osam ha'Adam va'Chai bahem"?

(b)

In connection with which set of sins is this Pasuk written?

(c)

What does Rebbi Shimon bar Rebbi learn from the fact that the Torah warns us against drinking blood?

(d)

How does he learn it from there?

44)
(a)

What does Rebbi Chananya ben Akashya say about ha'Kadosh-Baruch-Hu meriting Yisrael?

(b)

From which Pasuk in Yeshayah does he learn it?

(c)

What is another example of a Mitzvah that G-d need not have inserted in the Torah to which Rebbi Chananya ben Akashya might be referring?

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