1)

What is the "Reishis Bikurei Admascha" to which the Torah is referring?

1.

Rashi: It refers to the seven species listed in Eikev, Devarim (8:8), for which Eretz Yisrael is praised. 1


1

Wheat, barley, grapes, figs and pomegranates, olives and dates.

2)

What are the connotations of "Reishis"?

1.

Refer to 23:19:2:1 & 2.

3)

What does the Mitzvah of Bikurim entail?

1.

Refer to 23:19:4:1.

4)

To which animals does "Lo Sevashel G'di ... " pertain?

1.

Rashi: To all Kasher animals - since the word "G'di" incorporates every young tender animal. 1


1

Rashi: Which we learn from the fact that the Torah uses the term "G'di Izim" to describe a kid-goat. See Sifsei Chachamim.

5)

What do we learn from the three times that the Torah repeats the La'av of "Lo Sevashel G'di ... "?

1.

Rashi: We learn the prohibition against cooking them together, eating them together and deriving benefit from them.

6)

Why does the Torah add the (otherwise superfluous) word "Lo Sevashel G'di ba'Chaleiv Imo"?

1.

Rashi: To preclude a bird, (which does not have mother's milk), from the Isur, and which is only Asur mi'de'Rabanan.

7)

What are the connotations of the La'av "Lo Sevashel G'di ba'Chalev Imo"?

1.

Refer to 23:19:5:2-9.

8)

Why does the Torah write specifically "G'di"?

1.

Refer to 23:19:6:1-4.

9)

Why does the Torah insert meat and milk here, in connection with the Yamim-Tovim?

1.

Refer to 23:19:7:1

10)

What is the connection between Bikurim and meat and milk?

1.

Refer to 23:19:8:1-4 & 23:19:8:4*.

QUESTIONS ON RASHI

11)

Rashi writes that one of the times that the Torah writes Basar be'Chalav is to forbid eating meat cooked in milk. Why do we not already know this from "Lo Sochal Kol To'evah"?

1.

Refer to 23:19:151:1.

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