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1)

(a)What are the ramifications of Rebbi Meir's ruling that all spit that is found in Yerushalayim (See Tos. Yom-Tov) is Tahor? What would be the Din if it was Tamei?

(b)What is the reason for this ruling?

(c)The one exception stated by the Mishnah is the upper market. Some say that this was because many Nochri laudrymen worked there. Why is the spit of a Nochri Tamei? What is the source of this Tum'ah?

(d)What is the alternative reason for the Tum'ah?

2)

(a)Rebbi Yossi draws a distinction between the Yom-Tov and the rest of the year (See Meleches Sh'lomoh). What does he say about spit that is found in the market ...

1. ... in the middle of the road?

2. ... at the side of the road?

(b)What is the reason for both rulings?

(c)Like whom is the Halachah?

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3)

(a)Rebbi Meir draws a distinction between vessels that one finds in Yerushalayim (See Tos. Yom-Tov) on the way down to the Mikvah and coming up from the Mikvah. What does he mean by that? How can one know whether they were lost on the way down or on the way down?

(b)What distinction does he now draw between the two?

(c)What is the reason for that?

4)

(a)With three exceptions, Rebbi Yossi declares them both Tahor. Why is that?

(b)The three exceptions are the Sal, Magripah and Meritzah that are used in connection with the burial of the dead. If 'Sal' is the basket in which one transports the ground bones of a dead person from a temporary burial spot to a permanent one, what is ...

1. ... 'Magripah'?

2. ... 'Meritzah'?

(c)Like whom is the Halachah?

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5)

(a)The Mishnah permits a knife that one finds on the fourteenth (of Nisan in Yerushalayim) to be used to Shecht immediately (See Meleches Shlomoh). Why do we assume that the owner Toveled it on the thirteenth?

(b)What if one finds it on the thirteenth?

6)

(a)Either way, the Tana requires a Kupitz to be Toveled. What is a 'Kupitz'?

(b)To explain why this is, we establish the Mishnah where the King was a Goseis (on his death-bed) on the thirteenth. How will his death affect the Korban ...

1. ... Pesach and the knife?

2. ... Chagigah?

(c)How will this now explain the current ruling. Why does one ...

1. ...not need to Tovel the knife (that was found on the fourteenth, on the one hand?

2. ... need to Tovel the Kupitz, on the other?

7)

(a)How does the Rambam explain the words 'Shoneh u'Matbil'?

(b)How do we reconcile the current rulings with the fact that the Chachamim did not decree Tum'ah on S'tam Keilim in Yerushalayim?

8)

(a)If the fourteenth of Nisan falls on Shabbos, the Mishnah permits the finder to use the knife immediately. On what grounds might the Chachamim have forbidden it?

(b)Others interpret this with regard to the Kupitz. Why would we have thought that it is then forbidden?

(c)Why is it then permitted? Seeing as the Chagigah is not brought on Shabbos, on what basis can we nevertheless assume that the owner Toveled it on the thirteenth?

9)

(a)What if someone finds a knife or a Kupitz on Yom-Tov?

(b)Why is that?

(c)On what condition is one permitted to use a Kupitz immediately, even if one finds it on the fourteenth of Nisan?

(d)According to the Rambam however, this final ruling ('Nimtzeis Keshurah le'Sakin ... ') is referring (not to a Kupitz, but) to a knife. What is the Tana then coming to teach us?

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10)

(a)What does the Mishnah mean when it discusses a case where the Paroches touches a 'V'lad ha'Tum'ah'? Which kind of V'lad ha'Tum'ah renders Keilim Tamei?

(b)What is the source of this Tum'ah?

(c)Where is it Toveled (See Tiferes Yisrael)?

(d)What does the Tana then mean when he says 'u'Machnisin Osah Miyad? What might we otherwise have thought?

11)

(a)If it became Tamei through an Av ha'Tum'ah, the Tana requires it to be Toveled outside Machaneh Shechinah. Where does one spread it out to dry?

(b)When is it returned to its place?

(c)If the Paroches was a new one, they spread it out to dry on the roof of the Itztaba. What is the 'Itztaba'?

(d)Why did they do that?

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12)

(a)Raban Shimon ben Gamliel citing Rebbi Shimon ben ha'Segan describes the Paroches in detail. If it was a Tefach thick, on how many Batei Nirin (leashes on the weaving-loom) was it woven?

(b)Each thread comprised twenty-four threads. Which four materials did the threads comprise?

(c)How many strands did each thread comprise?

(d)If it was forty Amos long, how wide was it?

(e)What was the significance of those measurements?

13)

(a)When the Tana says that 'it was made with eight hundred and twenty thousand', what might he mean other than that it comprised a total of that number of threads?

(b)Others have the text 'u'vi'Shemonim u'Shetayim Rivos (rather than 'Ribo') Haysah Na'asis. What is the Mishnah then telling us?

14)

(a)How many Parochos were manufactured each year?

(b)How many Kohanim were Toveled it?

(c)What is the significance of the number three hundred?

(d)Why did a new Paroches require Tevilah even though it was not Tamei?

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15)

(a)What do Beis Shamai say about the Basar of Kodshei Kodshim that became Tamei, irrespective of whether it became Tamei via an Av ha'Tum'ah or via a V'lad ha'Tum'ah?

(b)What if it became Tamei outside the Azarah?

(c)On which principle is the above ruling based?

(d)Whereabouts in the Azarah are they burned?

16)

(a)What is the sole exception to the ruling? Which combination requires them to be burned outside the Azarah?

(b)Why is that?

17)

(a)What do Beis Hillel say? Which is the only combination that requires Kodshei Kodshim to be burned in the Azarah?

(b)Why is that?

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18)

(a)What does Rebbi Eliezer say about Kodshim that became Tamei via ...

1. ... an Av ha'Tum'ah?

2. ... a V'lad ha'Tum'ah?

(b)What is his reason for the latter ruling?

(c)What does Rebbi Akiva say?

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19)

(a)If, prior to taking the limbs up to the Makom ha'Ma'arachah to be burned, the limbs of the Tamid were placed on the western side (See Tos.Yom-Tov) of the lower section of the the ramp, where did they place the limbs of the Musaf?

(b)Who placed them there?

(c)What did they do between placing them there and taking them up to the Makom ha'Ma'arachah?

(d)What is the definition of ...

1. ... the lower section of the ramp? How high up was the halfway mark?

2. ... the western side? How wide was the ramp?

(e)Where did they place the limbs of the Musaf of Rosh Chodesh?

20)

(a)What distinction does the Mishnah draw between the Shekalim and Bikurim on the one hand, and Ma'aros and B'chor Beheimah on the other?

(b)What does Ma'asros incorporate?

(c)When there is no Beis-ha'Mikdash, why does ...

1. ... 'Shekalim' not apply?

2. ... Bikurim not apply?

21)

(a)Why, on the other hand, are Ma'asros and B'choros nevertheless applicable?

(b)What is one obligated to do regarding ...

1. ... T'rumos and Ma'asros?

2. ... Ma'aser Beheimah?

(c)Why did the Chachamim subsequently negate Ma'aser Beheimah?

22)

(a)What does the Tana Kama say about someone who declares Hekdesh his half-Shekel or Bikurim?

(b)On what grounds does Rebbi Shimon disagree with regard to Bikurim?

(c)How does the Rambam explain 'ha'Makdish Shekalim u'Bikurim'?

(d)What is the problem with that explanation?

(e)Like whom is the Halachah?

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