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1)

(a)Everyone agrees that, when a husband, who suspects his wife of infidelity, warns her not to seclude herself with another man, he must do so in front of two witnesses. What if he chooses not to warn her?

(b)According to Rebbi Eliezer, she becomes a Sotah even if one witness testifies that she ignored her husband's warning. What if he herself catches her with another man?

(c)What does Rebbi Yehoshua say?

2)

(a)What are the ramifications of the witnesses' testimony?

(b)What if the husband is a Kohen?

(c)Like whom is the Halachah?

3)

(a)The Gemara rules that nowadays, a man should not issue his wife with a warning not to seclude herself with another man, based on the opinion of Rebbi Yossi b'Rebbi Yehudah. What does Rebbi Yossi b'Rebbi Yehudah say?

(b)What problem would warning her therefore create?

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4)

(a)What is the Din regarding a man who warns his wife not to talk with Ish P'loni and she does?

(b)What if she then secludes herself with him?

(c)Then when will she become a Sotah?

(d)And she only becomes a Sotah if they are secluded for the duration of Shi'ur Tum'ah. How do we gauge the Shi'ur Tum'ah?

5)

(a)What if her husband subsequently dies before he had a chance to make her drink the Mei Sotah?

(b)How do we learn this from the Pasuk in Ki Seitzei "Veyatz'ah Vahaysah le'Ish Acher"?

(c)Why does she nevertheless require Chalitzah?

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6)

(a)What does the Mishnah say regarding the following cases: A woman who admits that she is Tamei, if witnesses testify to that effect and a Sotah who declares that she will not drink the water?

(b)What is the difference between the latter case and a regular Sotah?

(c)Why if, despite the fact that witnesses testified that she was guilty, the Sotah drank the water and nothing happened to her, does she remain forbidden to eat T'rumah?

(d)How do we learn this from the Pasuk "Venist'rah ve'Hi Nitma'ah, ve'Eid Ein bah"?

(e)What if the witnesses are overseas and did not manage to return in time to testify?

7)

(a)The Tana discusses a case where the husband refuses to make his wife drink the Mei Sotah or if he was intimate with her on the way to the Beis-ha'Mikdash. How does that effect the Sotah?

(b)What about eating T'rumah?

(c)What do we learn from the Pasuk (in connection with the Sotah drinking the water) "ve'Nikah ha'Ish me'Avon"?

8)

(a)According to the Tana Kama, Beis-Din send two Talmidei-Chachamim to ensure that they are not intimate on the way. Why specifically Talmidei-Chachamim?

(b)On what basis does Rebbi Yehudah maintain that the husband is believed?

(c)How do the Chachamim counter Rebbi Yehudah's argument?

(d)Like whom is the Halachah?

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9)

(a)Once in Yerushalayim, where does the husband take his (Sotah) wife?

(b)We learn this from the Gezeirah-Shavah "es Kol ha'Torah ha'Zos" (Naso) "al-Pi ha'Torah asher Yorucha" (Parshas Shoftim). In which context is the latter written?

(c)To what does the Mishnah compare the warning that the Sanhedrin issue her?

(d)What is the objective of the warning?

10)

(a)The warning begins with the mention of wine, jest, youth and neighbors. What common point do the Sanhedrin make that applies to all four?

(b)On what grounds do they implore her to confess?

(c)And they tell her things that she is unworthy to hear (she and her paternal family [See Tiferes Yisrael]). What is the Tana referring to?

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11)

(a)What does the Mishnah say about the Kesubah of a Sotah who confesses that she is guilty?

(b)What happens next

(c)Where do they take her if she insists that she is innocent?

(d)Why there?

(e)What is the significance of that particular location?

12)

(a)Who else, besides a woman who has given birth and a Metzora, stand there?

(b)What group do all of these comprise?

(c)What do they do there?

(d)It is called 'Sha'ar Nikanor' on account of the man who donated the gates. What is the story?

13)

(a)What does the Kohen do?

(b)What if he tears her clothes in the process?

(c)What might 'Nifr'mu' mean besides larger tears that 'Nikr'u'?

(d)With regard to the Pasuk in Naso "u'Para es Rosh ha'Ishah", what do we learn from ...

1. ... "u'Para es (Rosh) ha'Ishah"?

2. ... " u'Para es Rosh"?

14)

(a)How does Rebbi Yehudah qualify the previous rulings?

(b)Why is that?

(c)Like whom is the Halachah?

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15)

(a)What does the Mishnah say about a Sotah who is wearing white clothes?

(b)On what condition will the same apply if she is wearing black clothes?

(c)The Tana now discusses a Sotah who is wearing Katla'yos, Nezamim and Taba'os'. If 'Taba'os' are rings that are worn on the fingers, what are ...

1. ... 'Katlayos'?

2. ... 'Nezamim' (See Tos. Yom-Tov)?

(d)Why does the Mishnah see fit to mention this?

16)

(a)Following that, the Kohen brings an Egyptian rope. What does he do with it?

(b)Why specifically an Egyptian one?

(c)If all men are invited to come and see the Sotah in disgrace, what about the women (based on the Pasuk in Yechezkel "Venivasru Kol ha'Nashim")?

(d)Why is that?

(e)And why are her male and female slaves precluded from this ruling?

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17)

(a)What important principle does the Mishnah learn from the fact that, because the Sotah adorned herself for the adulterer, Hash-m makes her look ugly?

(b)What is the Tana referring to?

(c)By the same token, what did Hash-m command, based on the fact that she ...

1. ... revealed herself to him?

2. ... sinned first with her thighs and then with her stomach?

(d)And what does the Tana mean when he concludes that the remainder of her body does not escape?

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18)

(a)Where do we find 'Midah ke'Neged Midah' in connection with ...

1. ... Shimshon?

2. ... Avshalom?

(b)What happened to the latter for having been intimate with his father's ten concubines?

(c)Who actually struck him with their spears?

19)

(a)The Tana (citing the Pasuk in Shmuel) refers to three hearts that Avshalom 'stole'. To which incident is he referring?

(b)What exactly did he do?

(c)Whose three hearts did he 'steal'?

(d)When did Hash-m subsequently apply 'Midah ke'Neged Midah' in this case?

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20)

(a)What does the Mishnah say about 'Midah ke'Neged Midah' regarding reward?

(b)What distinction can we nevertheless draw between the two?

(c)How did 'Midah ke'Neged Midah' apply to Miriam? Why did the whole of Yisrael wait for her for seven days when she became a Metzora?

21)

(a)What was Yosef's reward for personally seeing to his father Ya'akov's burial?

(b)In what way was Yosef greater than his brothers?

(c)What was the connection between Yosef and Moshe in this regard?

22)

(a)What reward did Moshe receive for personally looking after the bones of Yosef?

(b)What does the Tana conclude with regard to all Tzadikim, based on a Pasuk in Yeshayah?