1)

(a)How did Rebbi Yochanan explain the Pasuk in Re'eh "Aser Te'aser"?

(b)When Rebbi Yochanan instructed Resh Lakish's son to test Hash-m and see whether He will not repay the Tzedakah that he gives, what was the latter's surprised response?

(c)What did Rebbi Yochanan ...

1. ... reply, citing Rebbe Hoshaya, based on the Pasuk in Malachi "Ha'vi'u es Kol ha'Ma'aser el Beis ha'Otzar ... u'Vechanuni Na ba'Zos ... "?

2. ... learn from the end of the same Pasuk "va'Harikosi Lachem Berachah Ad Bli Dai"?

(d)What was the child's reaction to Rebbi Yochanan's answer?

2)

(a)On another occasion, Rebbi Yochanan found the same child quoting the Pasuk in Mishlei "Aveles Adam Tesalef Darko, v'El Hash-m Yiz'af Libo". What does that mean?

(b)What did the child answer when Rebbi Yochanan asked him how it is possible for a Pasuk in Tanach to teach us something that is not even hinted in the Chumash?

(c)Why did the child's mother quickly come and take him away?

3)

(a)What does Rebbi Yochanan learn from the Pasuk ...

1. ... "Yiftach Hash-m Lecha es Otzaro ha'Tov" (Ki Savo)?

2. ... "Hineni Mamtir Lachem Lechem min ha'Shamayim" (Beshalach)?

(b)Who were the three 'good sustainers' of Yisrael? What did they provide Klal Yisrael with?

(c)What is the meaning of the Pasuk in Chukas "va'Yir'u Kol ha'Eidah Ki Gava Aharon"? How should it be explained?

4)

(a)Seeing as Yisrael no longer had the Zechus of ...

1. ... Miriam on which to depend, what happened to the Well, after she died?

2. ... Aharon on which to depend, what happened to both the well and the Clouds of Glory after Aharon died?

(b)How can the Pasuk in Zecharyah refer to the death of the three sustainers in one month, when Miriam died in Nisan, Aharon in Av and Moshe in Adar?

(c)How will we reconcile the fact that the source of Yisrael's sustenance came through the merit of Moshe alone, with Rebbi Yochanan's statement earlier that sustenance only comes on behalf a community [or on their merit])?

5)

(a)What happened to the three disciples of Rava, when their Rebbe died? With whom did they go to learn?

(b)What did Rav Papa dream about them, after they began to make his life a misery with the questions that they posed in the course of his Shi'ur?

(c)What did he wish them when they took leave from him?

(d)What did ...

1. ... Rav Papa do when Rav Shimi bar Ashi pestered him with questions?

2. ... Rav Shimi bar Ashi do when he saw him doing it?

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6)

(a)Resh Lakish also learns (like Rebbi Yochanan) that Hash-m sends rain even for one individual, but from the Pasuk in Zecharyah "Geshem Yiten Lahem, l'Ish, Esev ba'Sadeh". What does he learn from ...

1. ... "ba'Sadeh"?

2. ... "Esev"?

(b)What did Rav Daniel bar Katina used to do? And what used to happen then?

(c)In the same Pasuk in Zecharyah, the Navi writes "Hash-m Oseh Chazizim". What does this mean? What are 'Chazizim'?

7)

(a)'Nehila' can come before the rain or after it. What is 'Nehila'?

(b)What is Nehila a sign of ...

1. ... before the rain?

2. ... after the rain?

(c)Nehila before the rain is like a 'Mahulta', after the rain, it is like 'Charya d'Izi'. What is ...

1. ... a 'Mahulta'?

2. ... Charya d'Izi'?

8)

(a)What did Ula comment when, after seeing the rain-clouds, and warning the people to take their vessels into the house, no rain came?

(b)What did he comment when he saw that, in Bavel, one could obtain a basketful of dates for a Zuz?

(c)What caused him to soon change his mind?

(d)What comment did he make then?

9)

(a)What does Rebbi...

1. ... Eliezer learn from the Pasuk in Bereishis "v'Eid Ya'aleh min ha'Aretz v'Hishkah es Kol Pnei ha'Adamah"?

2. ... Yehoshua learn from the Pasuk in Ekev "li'M'tar ha'Shamayim Tishteh Mayim"?

(b)How does Rebbi Eliezer explain the fact that rain-water is sweet, whereas sea-water is salty (and in any event, the crops will not grow from salty water)?

(c)How does Rebbi Yehoshua explain the Pasuk "v'Eid Ya'aleh min ha'Aretz v'Hishkah es Kol Pnei ha'Adamah" ?

10)

(a)What do we learn from the Pasuk in Shmuel "Chashras Mayim Abei Shechakim" (see Agados Maharsha)?

(b)How much space is there between one rain-drop and the next?

(c)Rebbi Yochanan explains that "me'Aliyosav"(in the Pasuk in Tehilim "Mashkeh Harim me'Aliyosav") refers to the attics of Hash-m, from where the rain comes. How would we otherwise have explained it?

(d)How do we reconcile Rebbi Yochanan's explanation with Rebbi Eliezer? How do we even prove his explanation from the Pasuk in Ki Savo "Avak v'Afar, min ha'Shamayim ... "?

11)

(a)How does Rebbi Chanina explain the Pasuk in Tehilim "Ko'nes ka'Ned Mei ha'Yam, Nosen b'Otzaros Tehomos" (to conform with Rebbi Eliezer)?

(b)How will Rebbi Yehoshua explain this Pasuk?

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