When is it praiseworthy to check?
- A woman should check occasionally.
- A man should never check even with a pebble.
- A woman should check with a thick cloth.
- A man should check occasionally.
- A woman should check a lot.
If a man is eating Terumah and feels his Keri moving, what should he do?
- It is better to spit out the Terumah than to hold his Ever.
- He should hold his Ever with a thick cloth.
- He can hold his Ever with a thin cloth because the Keri will come out anyway.
- Machlokes B&C.
- This was the sin of the generation of the Flood so he must not hold the Ever.
Rav Yehudah needed to urinate when he was standing with Shmuel on the roof of a Beis Keneses:
- Shmuel told Rav Yehudah that he must go downstairs and use the shul's bathroom.
- Shmuel said it is better to urinate on the roof than hold the Ever.
- Rav Yehudah was afraid of Shmuel so he could hold his Ever and urinate over the side.
- Even though Rav Yehudah was not married he was so holy that he had no bad thoughts.
- Because it was nighttime no one would see him urinating on the roof.
If a man marries a girl who is too young to have children:
- This delays the coming of Mashi'ach, since not all the souls have come yet to this world.
- The marriage does not take effect because she is too young.
- He is Chayav Misah.
- If she is from a good family, this is praiseworthy.
- This causes a Mabul in the world.
The Gemara states that one of the women mentioned in the Mishnah, as being checked by others, should be deleted from the Mishnah:
- The Chereshes, since she is capable of speaking.
- The intelligent woman, since the Mishnah only refers to unusual cases.
- The woman who went crazy, since the Mishnah only lists woman who were born that way.
- The blind woman, since she can show her stains to sighted women.
- The woman who ruled for others.
Why were the Kohanim allowed to wear pants?
- They never slept in their pants.
- They were not close-fitting near the Ever.
- In the Beis ha'Mikdash they did not have bad thoughts.
- The pants had holes.
- The Kohanim were modest and were Perushim.