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1)

(a)Someone who declares 'Harei alai Isaron' brings a Minchah comprising one Isaron. How many Esronos must it comprise if he says 'Harei alai Esronim'?

(b)What if he cannot remember how many Esronim he undertook to bring?

(c)Why sixty Esronim and not more?

(d)What if he actually undertook to bring less than sixty Esronim?

2)

(a)According to the Tana Kama, what kind of Minchah must he bring if he declares S'tam 'Harei alai Minchah'?

(b)What does Rebbi Yehudah say?

(c)What does he mean when he explains that this is because it is 'Meyuchedes she'bi'Menachos'?

(d)Like whom is the Halachah?

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3)

(a)What distinction does the Tana draw between someone who declares that he will bring a 'Minchah' or 'Miyn Minchah' and someone who declares that he will bring 'Menachos' or Miyn ha'Menachos'?

(b)And what does he say in a case where he cannot remember what he declared?

(c)According to the Tana Kama, someone who undertakes to bring a Minchah comprising a certain number of Esronos (in one K'li), but cannot remember how many, must bring a Minchah comprising sixty Esronos. Why are we not concerned that he may have specified less?

4)

(a)Rebbi is more stringent than the Tana Kama. What does he say in the previous case?

(b)How many Esronos does he ultimately bring?

(c)Why will it not suffice to stipulate, like the Tana Kama says?

(d)Like whom is the Halachah?

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5)

(a)What must a person bring if he declares 'Harei alai ...

1. ... 'Eitzim'?

2. ... 'Levonah'?

(b)On what principle is the former ruling based?

(c)The latter ruling is the first of a list of five Kematzim. What is ...

1. ... the second (concerning a Minchah)?

2. ... the third (concerning someone who offers it ba'Chutz)?

6)

(a)What other case does the previous ruling incorporate?

(b)Why does the Tana not list it as a sixth Kometz?

(c)The last case of Kometz comprises two Kematzim. What is it?

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7)

(a)How much must a person give dif he undertakes to onate...

1. ... gold (See Tosfos Yom Tov)?

2. ... silver?

(b)What exactly did he say?

(c)What if he said ...

1. ... just 'gold' or 'silver'?

2. ... copper?

(d)How much gold must he give if he specified a certain amount but cannot recall how much?

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8)

(a)Someone who declares 'Harei alai Yayin' must bring three Lugin of wine for Nesachim. Why is that?

(b)How many Lugin comprise a Hin?

(c)By the same token, how much oil must he bring if he declares 'Harei alai Shemen', according to the Tana Kama?

(d)When does one bring ...

1. ... three Lugin of wine?

2. ... one Log of oil?

9)

(a)On what grounds does Rebbi maintain that 'Harei alai Shemen' requires three Lugin of oil?

(b)Like whom is the Halachah?

(c)If the owner forgot how many Lugin of wine or oil he undertook to bring, the Tana requires him to bring 'ke'Yom ha'Merubeh'. What day is he referring to?

(d)On that day they bring thirteen bulls and fourteen lambs, besides four lambs of Musaf, two of Shabbos and two of Yom-Tov, plus two rams and one goat. How many Lugin of wine and oil does all that require?

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10)

(a)According to the Tana Kama, a person who declares 'Harei alai Olah' is required to bring a lamb. What does Rebbi Elazar ben Azaryah say?

(b)What is the basis of their Machlokes?

11)

(a)And what does the Tana say about someone who cannot remember how many animals he specified after declaring that he will bring ...

1. ... 'min ha'Bakar'?

2. ... 'min ha'Beheimah'?

(b)Why, in neither case, does he bring female animals?

(c)What must he add to the latter list if he did not mention any specific animal?

12)

(a)The author of this Mishnah is Rebbi. What will Rebbi say later about someone who undertakes to bring a large animal or a small one?

(b)What do the Chachamim there say?

(c)What is their reason?

(d)Like whom is the Halachah?

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13)

(a)What does the Mishnah say a person may bring if he declares 'Harei alai Todah O Shelamim'?

(b)What if he cannot remember exactly what he said, but knows that he mentioned Bakar?

(c)Which additional animals must be bring if he knows that he mentioned Beheimah (besides a ram, a male kid-goat, a he-goat and a and a male lamb)?

(d)What is the difference between ...

1. ... a lamb and a sheep?

2. ... a kid-goat and a goat?

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14)

(a)The Mishnah obligates someone who undertakes to bring an ox as a Korban to purchase one that is worth a Manah. What does the purchase incclude?

(b)How many Sela'im must he spend should he undertake to bring a calf?

(c)How many Sela'im comprise a Manah?

(d)If he is obligated to spend two Sela'im for a ram, how much must he spend for a lamb?

(e)How will the Din differ, in all of the above cases, if he declares that he will bring a bull worth a Manah, a calf worth five Sela'im, a ram worth two or a lamb worth one?

15)

(a)What does the Tana say about someone who undertakes to bring an ox worth a Manah and he purchases two, each one worth ...

1. ... half a Manah?

2. ... a Manah minus a Dinar (a quarter of a Sela)?

(b)And what does he say about someone who undertakes to bring a black ox and he brings a white one, or vice-versa, or a large ox and brings a small one?

(c)According to the Tana Kama, if he undertakes to bring a small ox and he brings a large one, he is Yotzei. What does Rebbi say?

(d)Why does the Mishnah cite the Machlokes between Rebbi and the Rabbanan (which we already explained earlier) here in the Seifa?

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16)

(a)The Mishnah now discusses a case where the ox that the owner declared an Olah, became Tamei (Nista'ev). Based on the Pasuk in Bechukosai "ve'Im Kol Beheimah Teme'ah asher Lo Yakrivu mimenah Korban la'Hashem", what is the Tana really referring to?

(b)Why, in this case, is he permitted to purchase with the proceeds of the sale, two oxen, or vice-versa, according to the Tana Kama?

(c)What does Rebbi say?

(d)What does he hold if Bedi'eved, he did?

17)

(a)By the same token, the Tana Kama rules that if the ram that the owner declared an Olah obtains a blemish, he may purchase a lamb with the proceeds, or vice-versa. What does Rebbi say?

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

18)

(a)What does the Tana now say where someone declares one of his lambs or one of his oxen Hekdesh, in a case where he had ...

1. ... two lambs or oxen?

2. ... three lambs or oxen?

(b)How do we explain the latter ruling?

(c)From which Pasuk in Re'ei do we learn that when a person is Makdish, he does so generously?

(d)In the latter case, on what basis are both animals Hekdesh?

19)

(a)Having declared only one animal Hekdesh, in the latter case, he cannot bring both animals on the Mizbe'ach. What must he therefore do in order to fulfil his Neder?

(b)Why is this effective ('Mah Nafshach')?

(c)What if the owner ...

1. ... specified which of his animals should be Hekdesh, but cannot remember which one?

2. ... claims that his father specified an animal Hekdesh, but that he doesn't know which one?

(d)Why is that?

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20)

(a)The Mishnah states that someone who declares 'Harei alai Olah' must offer it in the Beis-ha'Mikdash. What is the Tana coming to preclude?

(b)What was Beis Chonav?

(c)Where was it built?

21)

(a)Who was ...

1. ... Chonav?

2. ... Shim'i?

(b)Why did Chonav initially refuse the position of Kohen Gadol, to which his father appointed him before he died?

22)

(a)Why did Chonav ultimately change his mind?

(b)What did he do to his ignorant brother to obtain the Kehunah Gedolah?

(c)What did he tell the other Kohanim in the hope that they would kill him?

(d)Why didn't they?

(e)What happened next?

23)

(a)Why did Chonav go specifically to Alexandria?

(b)With what Kavanah did he bring Korbanos there?

(c)Who prophesied about that Mizbe'ach many years earlier?

(d)How long did it stand before it was destroyed?

24)

(a)Why was someone who declared 'Harei alai Olah' not Yotzei if he brought his Korban on the Mizbe'ach in Beis Chonav?

(b)On what condition would he be Yotzei, according to the Tana Kama?

(c)What were the consequences for doing so?

(d)Why was his Neder effective in the first place? To what can it be compared?

25)

(a)What does Rebbi Shimon say about the Korban under discussion?

(b)By the same token, the Tana Kama rules that someone who declares Nezirus is obligated to shave off his hair (See Tosfos Yom Tov) in the Beis-ha'Mikdash. What if he shaved it in Beis Chonav?

(c)On what condition would he have been Yotzei even if he shaved in Beis Chonav?

(d)Why is that? What did the Noder have in mind?

26)

(a)What does Rebbi Shimon say about the current case?

(b)like whom is the Halachah in both cases?

27)

(a)What does the Tana say about the Kohanim who served in Beis Chonav?

(b)What does he mean when he says 've'Ein Tzarich Lomar le'Davar Acher'?

(c)From which Pasuk in Melachim do we learn this?

(d)What status did those Kohanim have?

(e)What were they therefore allowed to do?

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28)

(a)What does the Tana say about the phrase "Isheh Re'ach Ni'cho'ach la'Hashem"?

(b)What does he extrapolate from that?

(c)On what condition did he say that?

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