1)

(a)What does the Beraisa say about a woman who sees blood every alternate day? On which complete day is she permitted to her husband?

(b)She is also permitted four nights out of eighteen. How does that work out?

(c)Why do we not take into account the possibility of her becoming a Zavah?

2)

(a)When is the next time she is permitted to her husband?

(b)When does the next cycle begin?

(c)How often is a woman who sees ...

1. ... every alternate night as well, permitted to be with her husband.

2. ... two consecutive days out of every four?

(d)Why does the Tana no longer permit the night following the full day that she is permitted?

3)

(a)What makes us think that the above woman ought to be permitted on the nineteenth day as well?

(b)To answer the Kashya, Rav Sheishes cites the Garg'ran of Beis Hillel (in Perek Tinokes). What does that mean?

(c)What is the current Beraisa now coming to teach us?

(d)If, as Rav Ashi explains, Garg'ran does not mean that it is forbidden, why is the nineteenth day Asur?

4)

(a)The Tana then discusses a woman who sees for three days and then does not see for three days. He permits her for two days. Which two days? Why not the tenth?

(b)But he then forbids her forever. Why is that?

(c)What does the Tana then rule regarding a woman whose cycles last for ...

1. ... four days?

2. ... five days?

(d)If she sees for seven days and seven days she doesn't, the Tana allows her to be with her husband for a quarter of her life. How does that work?

5)

(a)For how many out of every forty-eight days does the Tana permit a woman whose cycles last for eight days?

(b)If she is permitted for the seven days from the tenth to the sixteenth (during a period of Zivus), why is she forbidden on the ninth?

(c)She is also permitted for the seven days from the twenty-sixth day to the thirty-second, during a period of Zivus. Why is she forbidden on the twenty-fifth day, on which she did not see either?

(d)She is also permitted on the forty-eighth day. Why is she forbidden on the seven days prior to that, during which time she did not have a sighting either?

6)

(a)Why do we suggest that she ought to be forbidden on the forty-eighth day, even though she did not see for the seven days prior to that?

(b)What does Rav Ada bar Ahavah answer (to resolve an old, hitherto unresolved She'eilah)?

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7)

(a)Rav Kahana cites a Beraisa regarding a woman who had two sightings of Zivus without pain, before miscarrying a baby whose sex she cannot identify. The Tana refers to 'Safek Zivah, Safek Leidah'. Which other two S'feikos does the woman have to contend with?

(b)What are the ramifications of her being ...

1. ... Safek Leidah?

2. ... Safek Zivah?

3. ... neither?

(c)How does Rav Kahana prove from this Beraisa the same point that Rav Ada bar Ahavah just proved from our current Beraisa?

(d)How does ...

1. ... Rav Papa try to refute Rav Kahana's proof?

2. ... Rav Huna b'rei de'Rav Yehoshua counter that?

8)

(a)Our Beraisa continues with a woman whose cycles last for nine days, whom the Tana gives eight days of Tashmish out of eighteen. How does that work?

(b)Whereas if they last ten, he rules 'Yemei Shimushah ki'Yemei Zivasah'. What does he mean by that?

(c)What does he finally rule in a case where a woman sees blood for a hundred or a thousand days and does not see for the equivalent amount of days?

(d)How does that work in the case of a hundred days?

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9)

(a)What distinction does our Mishnah draw between the blood of a Nidah and the flesh of a corpse on the one hand, and Zivus, Mucus from the nose, spit, Sheretz, Neveilah and Shichvas-Zera, on the other?

(b)Under which circumstances will even the latter group be Metamei when they are dry?

(c)What does the Tana consider retractable? What sort of water would one need to use and for how long would they need to be soaked?

(d)What does Rebbi Yossi say about the flesh of a corpse?

10)

(a)What does ...

1. ... Chizkiyah learn from the Pasuk in Metzora "ve'ha'Davah be'Nidasah"?

2. ... Rebbi Yitzchak learn from the word "Yih'yeh" (in the Pasuk there "Dam Yih'yeh Zovah")?

(b)From where do we know that even Dam Nidus that emerges dry is Metamei?

(c)What else do we include from "Yih'yeh"?

11)

(a)We suggest that maybe Dam Nidus makes Mishkav u'Moshav like the Nidah herself. What are the ramifications of this suggestion?

(b)On what grounds do we ...

1. ... initially reject it?

2. ... reinstate it? What equally unlikely precedent do we have to including Dam Nidus in the Din of Mishkav u'Moshav?

(c)How do we try to learn from a Kal va'Chomer from Zav that Even Menuga'as should be Metamei Mishkav u'Moshav (like a Zav)?

(d)What do we therefore learn from ...

1. ... "ha'Zav"?

2. ... " ... asher Hi Yosheves alav"?

12)

(a)We suggest that, like Nidah herself, Dam Nidus should be Metamei be'Even Mesama. What is Even Mesama (see Tosfos DH 'Even Mesama)?

(b)Rav Ashi quotes the Pasuk there (in connection with Mishkav ha'Zav) "ve'ha'Nosei osam". What does he learn from there?

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