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9)
(a) What did Rebbi mean when he ordered the Chachamim to place a Yeshivah 'over his grave'? What would the procedure then be after thirty days?
(b) From whom did he learn the restriction of thirty days?
(c) What did a Heavenly Voice announce on the day that Rebbi died?
(d) What did a certain laundry-man do to earn his immediate place in Olam ha'Ba, in spite of the fact that he missed Rebbi's Levayah?
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10)
(a) What did Rebbi mean when he left instructions that 'Shimon Bni Chacham, Gamliel Bni Nasi'?
(b) What do we learn from the Pasuk in Divrei ha'Yamim "v'es ha'Mamlachah Nasan li'Yehoram ki Hu ha'Bechor"?
(c) Based on this Pasuk, Levi thought that it should not have been necessary for Rebbi to appoint Gamliel Nasi. On what grounds did Shimon bar Rebbi disagree? Why was Gamliel his brother not worthy of succeeding Rebbi?
(d) Then why did Rebbi appoint him?
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11)
(a) Why did Rebbi Efes succeed Rebbi as Rosh Yeshivah, despite Rebbi's appointment of Rebbi Chanina bar Chama?
(b) What did Rav conclude, when they told him that Levi had arrived in Bavel?
(c) What led him to that conclusion? With whom had Levi learned previously?
(d) Some explain that Rav knew that it was because Rebbi Efes had died and not Rebbi Chanina, that Levi moved to Bavel, because Levi (unlike Rebbi Chanina) would have submitted himself to Rebbi Efes. Based on the Pasuk in Tehilim "v'Sigzar Omer v'Yakem Lach" - what do others say?
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12)
(a) When Levi arrived in Bavel, he brought with him a ruling 'Kelila Shari'. What does that mean?
(b) Bearing in mind the prohibition of a woman wearing ornaments, as we learned in Shabbos, what makes Kelila different?
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13)
(a) Some say that the reason that Rebbi chose Rebbi Chanina as Rosh Yeshivah rather than Rebbi Chiya was because Rebbi Chiya died before Rebbi. How do we initially then explain the statement of Rebbi Chiya, testifying that he saw Rebbi's grave and wept over it?
(b) What else is Rebbi Chiya purported to have said on the day that Rebbi died (which we initially explain in the same way as we explained the pervious statement)?
(c) Following a third statement of Rebbi Chiya (which we initially explain in the same way as the previous two statements), Rebbi Chiya asked Rebbi why he was crying, seeing as it is a bad sign to die in the process of weeping. What did he reply?
(d) What do the following have in common. Someone who dies ...
1. ... facing upwards, facing the people, with a red, shining face, on Erev Shabbos, on Motzei Yom Kippur, following a stomach illness?
2. ... facing downwards, facing the wall, with a green face, on Motzei Shabbos, on Erev Yom Kippur?
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14)
(a) Why is it is considered a good sign to die ...
1. ... on Erev Shabbos?
2. ... on Motzei Yom Kippur?
3. ... following a stomach illness?
(b) What is the alternative answer (which dispenses with the need to switch the text in the three previous problems), to explain why Rebbi might deliberately have overlooked Rebbi Chiya when appointing Rebbi Chanina bar Chama Rosh Yeshivah?
(c) What would Rebbi Chiya retort, when Rebbi Chanina would advise him not to argue with him, since he was able to revive Torah with his Pilpul, were it to become forgotten?
(d) What did Rebbi Chiya used to do after planting flax, making nets to trap deer and catching the deer?
(e) What did he do with the flesh of the deer?
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15)
(a) What did Rebbi reply, when Rebbi Shimon and Rebbi Yishmael b'Rebbi Yosi respectively, asked Rebbi whether, when he had exclaimed 'How great are the deeds of Chiya', he had meant that they were even greater than ...
1. ... his own?
2. ... those of Rebbi Yosi?
(b) Rebbi then called first for his younger son, Rebbi Shimon, and then for Raben Gamliel, his older son. What did he teach ...
1. ... the former?
2. ... the latter? What did he mean when he said 'Ne'hog Nesi'ascha b'Ramim'?
(c) He also instructed him to instill fear into the Talmidei-Chachamim (because the Nasi, like a king, must reflect the fear of Hash-m). How do we reconcile this with Yehoshafat, King of Yehudah, who, whenever he saw a Talmid-Chacham, would arise from his throne, embrace and kiss him and call him Rebbi, Rebbi, Mari, Mari?
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16)
(a) How does the Tana of a Beraisa connect the Pasuk in Shoftim "Tzedek Tzedek Tirdof" with Rebbi?
(b) How do we reconcile this with another Beraisa, which gives Rebbi's domicile prior to his death as having been in Tzipori, even though his burial-place was in Beis She'arim?
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