1)

(a)What distinction does the Beraisa draw between a Ner she'Shavas (which literally means a lamp that rested) and one that did not?

(b)We refute the suggestion that a Ner she'Lo Shavas refers even to a lamp that did not even 'rest' from a Melachah that is permitted on the basis of a Beraisa which discusses a lamp that was lit for a Chayah or for a sick person. What is a Chayah?

(c)How does Rav Nachman bar Yitzchak therefore interpret 'Ner she'Lo Shavas'?

(d)What does the Beraisa say about a lantern that was lit the whole Shabbos that bears this out?

2)

(a)What does another Beraisa say about using a lamp that ...

1. ... a Nochri lit from a Yisrael?

2. ... a Yisrael lit from a Nochri?

3. ... a Nochri lit from a Nochri?

(b)Which two of these three rulings do we query (since they appear to clash)?

(c)We query the suggestion that when a Yisrael lights from a Nochri, it is considered a new flame, from a Beraisa which obligates someone who carries a flame into the R'shus ha'Rabim. How did he do that?

(d)What is now the problem?

3)

(a)What reason do we therefore give finally to explain why the light that a Yisrael lit from a Nochri is permitted?

(b)Then why is the light that a Nochri lit from the Nochri also permitted for the same reason?

4)

(a)If someone who is travelling outside the city on Motza'ei Shabbos sees a light, on what condition does the Beraisa ...

1. ... permit reciting the B'rachah over Ner?

2. ... forbid him to do so?

(b)What problem do we have with these two rulings?

(c)We answer that in reality, by Mechtzah al Mechtzah, one is permitted to recite the B'rachah. Then why in the Seifa, does the Tana say 'Rov Yisrael'?

5)

(a)What does another Beraisa say about someone who is travelling outside the city on Motza'ei Shabbos and who comes across a child holding a torch? On what condition is one permitted to recite the B'rachah?

(b)How does Rav Yehudah Amar Rav establish the Beraisa, to explain why the Beraisa mentions specifically a Katan?

(c)How does that answer the Kashya?

6)

(a)What does the Tana say about someone who sees a lit oven from outside the town on Motza'ei Shabbos? On what condition can he recite a B'rachah over it?

(b)Why is that?

(c)What do we mean, when, to reconcile the Beraisa which permits reciting a B'rachah over the light of a furnace and one which forbids it, we establish the latter Beraisa 'bi'Techilah',and the former, 'be'Sof'?

7)

(a)What do two conflicting Beraisos say about reciting a B'rachah over the light of a Shul or a Beis ha'Medrash?

(b)To reconcile them, we establish one of them where there is an important person there, and the other, where there isn't. Which is which?

(c)Alternatively, both speak where there is an important person there, and one speaks where there is a Chazan staying on the premises and the other, where there isn't. What does 'Chazan' mean?

(d)What is then the Gemara's answer? Which is which?

(e)What is the final answer, even assuming that there is both an important person there and a Chazan who stays on the premises? On what condition will one nevertheless not be permitted to recite a B'rachah over the lamp?

8)

(a)What do Beis Shamai say about a case where a number of people are sitting in the Beis-ha'Medrash on Motza'ei Shabbos and someone brings a light? Who recites the B'rachah?

(b)Based on which Pasuk in Mishlei do Beis Hillel argue?

(c)What is Beis Shamai's reason?

(d)In a Beraisa supporting the reason of Beis Shamai, what did they not used to do in Raban Gamliel's Beis-ha'Medrash?

9)

(a)Why does the Mishnah not permit reciting a B'rachah over Ner shel ...

1. ... Meisim?

2. ... shel Besamim?

(b)According to Rav Yehudah Amar Rav, when will one recite a B'rachah over a Ner shel Meis?

(c)Why is that?

(d)What does Rav Huna say about Besamim that are ...

1. ... placed in the bathroom?

2. ... brought to remove the sweat and dirt from one's hands? On what occasion did they tend to do this?

(e)If this does not mean that he does not recite a B'rachah at all, then what does it mean?

10)

(a)We query the current rulings from a Beraisa which discusses someone who enters a spice-shop. What distinction does the Tana there draw between whether he remains there all day or whether he leaves and returns a number of times?

(b)How does this pose a Kashya on the previous cases?

(c)How do we answer it?

11)

(a)On what condition does the Tana Kama of the Beraisa require a person who is walking outside the town and who encounters a beautiful aroma to recite a B'rachah?

(b)On what grounds does Rebbi Yossi rule that even if the majority of residents are Jewish, one does recite a B'rachah?

(c)How do we answer the Pircha that it is inconceivable that all the women do that?

12)

(a)What does Rebbi Chiya bar Aba Amar Rebbi Yochanan say about someone who encounters a beautiful aroma whilst walking ...

1. ... in Teverya on Erev Shabbos?

2. ... in Tzipori on Motza'ei Shabbos?

(b)Why is that?

(c)And what does the Beraisa say about someone who is walking through a Nochri market and who deliberately inhales the beautiful aroma that pervades there?

(d)Another Beraisa goes even further. What does the Tana say about someone who is walking through a Shuk shel Avodah-Zarah?

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13)

(a)We learned in our Mishnah that one is forbidden to recite a B'rachah over a light until one benefits from it. How does Rav Yehudah Amar Rav interpret it.

(b)How close must one be to the Ner?

(c)Rav Ashi condones Rav Yehudah's explanation. How does he specifically establish the Mishnah?

(d)We query this however, from a Beraisa. What does the Tana there say about someone who is carrying a lamp hidden in his bosom or inside a lantern, if he saw a flame but did not benefit from it or if he used a flame without actually seeing it?

(e)Which two conditions does he require before reciting a B'rachah?

14)

(a)How do we interpret the last of the three cases in the current Beraisa?

(b)How do we initially explain the middle case, which poses a Kashya Rav Yehudah and Rav Ashi?

(c)To answer the Kashya, how do we establish the Beraisa?

15)

(a)We learned in a Beraisa that one may recite a B'rachah over Gechalim Lochshos, but not over Gechalim Om'mos. How does Rav Yitzchak bar Avdimi define 'Gechalim Lochshos'?

(b)What She'eilah do we ask regarding the spelling of the word 'Om'mos'?

(c)Rav Yitzchak bar Avdimi resolves the She'eilah from the Pasuk in Yechezkel "Arazim Lo Am'muhu be'Gan Elokim". How is the word spelt there?

16)

(a)Rava disagrees with Rav Yehudah Amar Rav and Rav Ashi. How does he explain 'ad she'Ye'Osu le'Oro'?

(b)According to Ula, this mean that one is close enough to discern the difference between an Isar and a Pundiyon. What do the two have in common?

(c)According to Chizkiyah, it is the difference between the Meluzma of Teverya and that of Tzipori. What is a 'Meluzma'?

(d)Rav Yehudah recited a B'rachah over a lamp that he saw burning in the house of Ada Dayla, Rava over a lamp that he saw burning in the house of Gurya bar Chama. What was the difference between the two?

(e)What is the significance of ...

1. ... the two Amora'im concerned?

2. ... Abaye, who recited a B'rachah over a lamp that he saw burning in the house of bar Avuhah?

17)

(a)What did Rav Yehudah Amar Rav say about searching for a lamp over which to recite Birchas ha'Ner?

(b)What did Rebbi Zeira comment upon hearing Rav Yehudah's statement?

18)

(a)We learned in our Mishnah that, according to Beis Shamai, someone who forgot to Bench where he ate and left the room, is obligated to return and Bench where he ate. What do Beis Hillel say?

(b)Rav Z'vid (or Rav Dimi bar Aba) establish the Machlokes specifically where he forgot. What if he did so be'Meizid?

(c)The Gemara asks 'P'shita?' Why is that?

(d)How do we answer the Kashya? If the same applies to Meizid, then why does the Mishnah mention Shogeg?

19)

(a)What did Beis Shamai retort when Beis Hillel asked them in surprise whether this means that someone who, after eating on the top floor of a tall building, forgot and descended, is Chayav to climb to the top to Bench?

(b)What happened to the Talmid who followed the ruling of Beis ...

1. ... Shamai (be'Shogeg) and returned to the place where he ate, in order to Bench?

2. ... Hillel (be'Meizid) and Benched where he was?

20)

(a)What was the dilemma of Rabah bar bar Chanah, who was once about to travel in a caravan when he remembered that he had not Benched?

(b)What did he therefore decide to tell them?

(c)Why, based on a Pasuk in Tehilim), did he choose specifically the wings of a dove?

(d)And why is Yisrael compared specifically to a dove?

(e)What happened next?

21)

(a)We learned in our Mishnah that one is permitted to still Bench as long as the food has not yet digested. Rebbi Yochanan defines this as 'as long as one is not yet hungry'. What does Resh Lakish say?

(b)Rav Yeimar bar Shalmaya (or bar Shizbi) queried Resh Lakish from a statement of Rav Ami in his (Resh Lakish's) name. What Shi'ur did Rav Ami give during which time one is still permitted to Bench?

(c)How did Mar Zutra resolve the discrepancy in Resh Lakish?

22)

(a)Our Mishnah clearly implies that one answers Amen to the B'rachah of a Yisrael even if one hear the entire B'rachah. What problem did we initially have with this?

(b)What did Chiya bar Rav answer?

(c)What did Rav Nachman Amar Rabah bar Avuhah say about it?

23)

(a)What did Rav and Rav Huna mean when they instructed their sons Chiya and Rabah, respectively 'Chatofu'Varech!'?

(b)Which principle did Rebbi Yossi in a Beraisa teach which clashes with that?

(c)Rebbi Nehorai swore that this is so, based on the Gulayrin and the Giborim. Who are the Gulayrin and the Giborim? What do they respectively, do?

(d)How does this not pose a Kashya on Rav and Rav Huna?

24)

(a)We answer that it is in fact, a Machlokes Tana'im. What is the Pasuk in Nechemya referring to when i says ...

1. ... "Kumu Borchu es Hash-m Elokeichem"?

2. ... "Viyevar'chu Shem Kevodecha"?

(b)What is the connection between the latter Pasuk and 'Amen'?

(c)What does the Tana now say about the two?

25)

(a)What did Shmuel ask Rav about answering 'Amen' after children who recite a B'rachah?

(b)What reason did Rav give for answering in the negative?

(c)What is the sole exception?

26)

(a)What does Rebbi Zila'i in a Beraisa mean when he says that the oil that they bring at the end of the meal holds back the B'rachah?

(b)What other ramifications does this ruling have"

(c)What does Rebbi Ziva'i say?

(d)Rebbi Acha seems to make a compromise. What does he say?

27)

(a)According to Rebbi Zuhama'i, what does the Dinim of the Avodah and of Benching have in common?

(b)Rav Nachman bar Yitzchak disagrees with Rebbi Zila'i, Rebbi Ziva'i and Rebbi Zuhama'i. He does however, hold of a Beraisa (some cite it as a statement of Rav Yehudah Amar Rav). If, citing a Pasuk in Kedoshim, the Tana interprets ...

1. ... "Vehiskadishtem" as 'Mayim Rishonim', howdoes he interpret "Vih'yisem Kedoshim"

2. ... "ki Kadosh Ani" as 'Shemen ha'Tov', how does he interpret "Ani Hash-m Elokeichem"?

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