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8)
(a) What example does the Beraisa give of witnesses in a murder case testifying by estimation?
(b) What did Rebbi Shimon ben Shetach say to the murderer when he encountered just such a scenario?
(c) Which Pasuk in Shoftim did he quote him?
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9)
(a) What pronouncement did Rebbi Shimon ben Shetach make? How did it come true?
(b) On what grounds do we query the fact that he died from snakebite?
(c) This is based on a statement of Rav Yosef as well as Tana de'bei Chizkiyah. What do they say happens to someone who is Chayav Misas Beis-Din nowadays?
(d) What is the alternative death that a person who is Chayav ...
1. ... Sekilah (stoning) will suffer other than falling off a cliff?
2. ... S'reifah (burning) will suffer other than being burned alive?
3. ... Hereg (killed by the sword) will suffer other than being captured and killed by the ruling power?
4. ... Chenek (strangled) will suffer other than choking?
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10)
How do we now explain why the murderer in the case of Rebbi Shimon ben Shetach was ...
1. ... bitten by a snake and not slain by the ruling power or by robbers?
2. ... punished by the equivalent of S'reifah and not of Hereg (which he ought to have received)?
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11)
(a) What does Rebbi Acha say about a camel that is walking around biting the other camels, when a dead camel is found lying beside it?
(b) What else might 'Gamal ha'Ocher' mean?
(c) What do we try and prove from there concerning our Mishnah, which forbids circumstantial evidence regarding Dinei Nefashos?
(d) We refute this however, by citing a Mishnah that we already learned in 'Zeh Borer'. What does the Tana say there about 'Eid mi'Pi Eid' by Dinei Mamonos?
(e) So what do we conclude? Why might the author of our Mishnah not be Rebbi Acha after all?
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12)
(a) What does Rebbi Yehudah b'rei de'Rebbi Chiya say ...
1. ... to explain why Kayin inflicted many wounds on Hevel before killing him?
2. ... about the earth from the moment it opened its mouth to accept Hevel's blood?
(b) How do we reconcile this with the Pasuk in Korach "va'Tiftach ha'Aretz es Pihah"?
(c) And how does the same author extrapolate from the two Pesukim in Bereishis "Na va'Nad Tih'yeh ba'Aretz" and "va'Yeishev be'Eretz Nod", that exile atones half of one's sins?
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13)
(a) What does Rav Yehudah Amar Rav extrapolate from the Pasuk in Yirmiyah "ha'Yoshev ba'Ir ha'Zos Yamus be'Cherev, be'Ra'av, u've'Daver, ve'ha'Yotzei ve'Nafal el ha'Kasdim ha'Tzarim Aleichem Yichyeh ... "?
(b) Rebbi Yochanan goes still further. What does he say?
(c) How does he learn that from Yechonyah ha'Melech? What did the latter gain after going into Galus that the Navi had previously told him he would not?
(d) They called that son Asir She'altiel. What is the significance of those two names?
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14)
(a) He may also have been called She'altiel, because he was born after the Heavenly Court released Hashem's oath ('Nish'al al Alaso'). Which oath?
(b) Why was She'altiel's son called Zerubavel?
(c) By what other name is Zerubavel better known?
(d) Then what was She'alti'el's real name
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