PAST CYCLE DEDICATION

BERACHOS 11 - Sponsored by Shlomo Wertenteil of Rechovot in memory of his wife, Esther Chaya Riva bas Kalman Zelig, who passed away on 29 Menachem Av 5761.

1)

(a)Why do Beis Shamai not accept Beis Hillel's interpretation of "u've'Shochb'cha" and "u've'Kumecha"?

(b)What do Beis Shamai learn from ...

1. ... "be'Shivt'cha be'Veisecha"?

2. ... "u've'Lecht'cha va'Derech"?

(c)On what grounds does the Beraisa therefore differentiate between someone who marries a Besulah (who is Patur from reading the Sh'ma) and someone who marries an Almanah (who is Chayav)?

2)

(a)How does Rav Papa learn the current ruling from the fact that the Torah uses the word "Derech"?

(b)How does he ultimately extrapolate from the words "be'Shivt'cha be'Veisecha" and "u've'Lecht'cha ba'Derech" that the Pasuk is not referring to a journey of a Mitzvah?

3)

(a)If worry is the key to the P'tur from Keri'as Sh'ma, then why is a person not Patur because he is worried about ...

1. ... his ship that just sunk in the ocean?

2. ... his close relative who just died?

(b)We know that they are Chayav from a statement of Rebbi Aba bar Zavda Amar Rav. What did Rebbi Aba bar Zavda say about an Aveil?

(c)Why is an Aveil Patur from Tefilin?

(d)Seeing as Beis Hillel learn from "u've'Lecht'cha ba'Derech" that one is permitted to recite the Sh'ma walking, from where do they learn that a Chasan is Patur?

4)

(a)Beis Hillel in a Beraisa, permit reciting the Sh'ma in any one of five positions, including whilst doing one's work. What are the other four?

(b)The Tana relates an episode where Rebbi Yishmael and Rebbi Azaryah were sitting together one evening, the former, leaning, the latter, sitting, when the time of Keri'as Sh'ma arrived. What did each one do?

5)

(a)What did Rebbi Elazar comment to Rebbi Yishmael?

(b)What exactly, was his complaint?

(c)What parable did he give to illustrate his 'complaint'?

(d)What did Rebbi Yishmael reply?

(e)What did Rebbi Yishmael mean when he added 've'Lo Od, Ela Shema Yir'u ha'Talmidim ve'Yikbe'u Halachah le'Doros'?

6)

(a)Rav Yechezkel quotes a Beraisa, that whether one does like Beis Shamai or like Beis Hillel, one is Yotzei. What does Rav Yosef say to that?

(b)He bases his ruling on a Mishnah in Succah, which discusses someone who sits inside a Succah but whose table is in the house. What do Beis Shamai and Beis Hillel respectively, rule there?

(c)How did Beis Hillel try to support their ruling with an episode that occurred when the elders of both schools once went to visit Rebbi Yochanan ben ha'Choranis? What was he doing when they arrived?

(d)What did Beis Shamai retort?

(e)Rav Nachman bar Yitzchak goes even further. Based on the episode with Rebbi Tarfon in our Mishnah, what does he say about someone who rules like Beis Shamai?

7)

(a)In the morning, the Mishnah obligates the recital of two B'rachos before the Sh'ma and one Berachah after it. What about in the evening?

(b)To which two Berachos is the Mishnah referring, when it writes 'one long Berachah and one short one'?

8)

(a)What does the Tana say about a Berachah which the Chachamim specifically said should ...

1. ... be long or one that should be short?

2. ... terminate with 'Baruch ... ' ('Lach'tom') or one which they said should not('she'Lo Lach'tom')?

(b)Which category of Berachah is he referring to when he says 'she'Lo Lachtom, Eino Rashai Lachtom'?

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9)

(a)Discussing the two B'rachos before Keri'as Sh'ma shel Shachris, based on the Pasuk in Yeshayah, Rebbi Ya'akov Amar Rebbi Oshaya presents the first Berachah as 'Yotzer Or u'Vorei Choshech'. On what grounds do we suggest that the Nusach ought to be 'Yotzer Or u'Vorei Nogah', despite the wording in the Pasuk?

(b)What is the basis of the question?

(c)How does Rava (or Rava or Rabah bar Ula) answer the question? Why do we say 'u'Vorei Choshesh' and not 'u'Vorei Nogah'?

10)

(a)We have explained 'the nighttime in the day Sh'ma' ('Yotzer Or u'Vorei Choshech'). How does Abaye explain 'the daytime in the night Sh'ma'?

(b)Rav Yehudah Amar Shmuel presents the second Berachah as 'Ahavah Rabah'. What did Rebbi Elazar teach his son (See Hagahos ve'Tziyunim)?

(c)The Tana Kama of the Beraisa too, specifically states that the correct Nusach is 'Ahavah Rabah' and nor 'Ahavas Olam' (like we say at Ma'ariv). Based on the Pasuk in Yirmiyah, what do the Chachamim say?

(d)What does the Pasuk in Yirmiyah say?

11)

(a)What does Rav Yehudah Amar Shmuel say about someone who sits down to learn in the morning after he has recited the Sh'ma?

(b)Why is that?

(c)We now discuss Birchas ha'Torah with regard to Mikra (T'nach), Medrash, Mishnah and Gemara. What does 'Medrash' incorporate?

(d)According to our text (See Hagahos ve'Tziyunim on the Sugya), which of the above unanimously require Birchas ha'Torah?

12)

(a)According to Rabah Amar Rav Huna, Mikra requires a Berachah, Medrash does not. What does Rebbi Elazar say?

(b)According to Rebbi Yochanan, Mishnah too, requires a Berachah. What does Rava say?

(c)What is his reason?

(d)What is the definition of Gemara?

13)

(a)On which earlier Gadol, cited by Rav Chiya bar Ashi, is Rava's ruling based?

(b)What two things did he see Rav do 'many a time' before teaching his Talmidim Sifra de'bei Rav?

(c)According to Rav Yehudah Amar Shmuel, Birchas ha'Torah consists of 'asher Kid'shanu be'Mitzvosav ... La'asok be'Divrei Sorah'. What did Rebbi Yochanan add to that?

14)

(a)What did Rav Hamnuna say about the text of Birchas ha'Torah?

(b)What did Rav Hamnuna himself (See Mesores ha'Shas) say about this Berachah

(c)Like which of the above opinions do we therefore trule?

15)

(a)The Mishnah in Tamid, discusses the Kohanim's tight Davening schedule. When did they assemble in the Lishkas ha'Gazis to Daven?

(b)Why did they not Daven the full Davening?

(c)The Memuneh would instruct them to recite one Berachah, followed by the Aseres ha'Dibros. Who was tha Memuneh? What other title did he bear?

(d)How many Parshiyos of the Sh'ma did they then recite?

(e)What did they do before proceeding with 'Emes ve'Yatziv'?

16)

(a)Which two B'rachos of the Amidah did they then recite?

(b)What did they add on Shabbos?

(c)What did Rebbi Aba and his son Rav Yosef (or Rav Yosef S'tam) reply when they were asked which Berachah the Memuneh instructed the Kohanim to recite?

(d)When they asked Rav Yehudah, quoting Shmuel he replied 'Ahavah Rabah'. What did Rebbi Z'rika quoting Resh Lakish say?

17)

(a)What did Rebbi Yitzchak bar Yosef comment on the ruling of Rebbi Z'rika Amar ... Resh Lakish when he arrived from Eretz Yisrael?

(b)What did the latter actually say (concerning the order of the B'rachos before Keri'as Sh'ma)?

(c)How does this indicate that the Kohanim must have recited 'Yotzer Or'? Why would his statement have been meaningless had they recited 'Ahavah Rabah'?

18)

(a)If Resh Lakish did not specifically say 'Yotzer Or', what do we conclude Resh Lakish may well hold?

(b)How do we then re-interpret 'Ein B'rachos Me'akvos Zu es Zu' to reconcile it with that?