When is it praiseworthy to check?
- A woman to check occasionally.
- A man should never check even with a pebble.
- A woman to check with a thick cloth.
- A man to check occasionally.
- A woman should check a lot.
If a man is eating Terumah and feels semen moving, what should he do?
- It is better to spit out the Terumah than holding his Ever.
- He should hold his Ever with a thick cloth.
- He can hold his Ever with a thin cloth because the semen 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 Yehuda needed to urinate when he was standing with Shmuel on the roof of a Beis Knesses:
- Shmuel told Rav Yehuda that he must go downstairs and use the shul bathroom.
- Shmuel said it is better to urinate on the roof than hold the Ever.
- Rav Yehuda was afraid of Shmuel so he could hold his Ever and urinate over the side.
- Even though Rav Yehuda was not married he was so holy that he had no bad thoughts.
- Because it was night-time no one would see hm urinating on the roof.
If a man marries a girl who is too young to have children:
- This delays the Mashiach since not all the souls have come yet to this world.
- The marriage does not take effect because she is too small.
- He is Chayav Misah.
- If she is from a good family this is praiseworthy.
- This causes a Mabul.
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 paskened for others.
Why were the Cohanim allowed to wear pants?
- They never slept in their pants.
- They were not close-fitting near the Ever.
- In the Beis Hamikdash they did not have bad thoughts.
- The pants had holes.
- The Cohanim were modest and were Perushim.