PAST CYCLE DEDICATION

BERACHOS 63 (23 Nisan) - dedicated by Mr. Avy Reichman of Queens, NY, l'Iluy Nishmas his father, Dovid ben Avraham, for the day of his Yahrzeit.

1)

(a)To explain why they answer "Baruch Shem ... " after each B'rachah in the Beis-ha'Mikdash and not 'Amen', we cite the Pasuk in Nechemyah "Kumu Barchu es Hash-m Elokeichem min ha'Olam ad ha'Olam vi'Yevarchu Shem K'vodecha ... ". What do we learn from there?

(b)And what do we learn from the continuation of the Pasuk "u'Meromam al Kol B'rachah u'Tehilah"?

(c)How does the Mevarech therefore conclude each B'rachah?

(d)Why did they add 'min ha'Olam ve'ad ha'Olam' to the B'rachah?

(e)What does this have to do with B'rachos?

2)

(a)The Mishnah proves that one may greet using the Name of Hash-m from the Pasuk in Rus, where Bo'az said to Rus "Hash-m Imachem". Why does the Tana see fit to add the Pasuk ...

1. ... in Shoftim (where the angel said to Gid'on) "Hash-m Im'cha Gibor ha'Chayil"?

2. ... in Mishlei "Al Tavoz ki Zaknah Imecha"?

(b)What is this Pasuk coming to teach us?

(c)And what do we learn from the Pasuk in Tehilim "Eis La'asos la'Hashem, Heifeiru Torasecha"?

(d)One of the two ways of explaining the latter Pasuk is "Eis La'asos la'Hashem"(Hash-m sometimes needs to punish the people) because "Heifeiru Torasecha" (they have nullified the Torah). What is the other?

(e)What is an example of the latter?

3)

(a)What did Hillel ha'Zakein mean when he said ...

1. ... 'be'Sha'as ha'Machnisin Pazer'?

2. ... 'be'Sha'as ha'Mefazrim Kaneis'?

(b)What is the reason for the latter statement?

(c)What has this to do with the previous Pasuk "Eis La'asos la'Hashem")?

(d)Similarly, what did Hillel say about a generation that ...

1. ... loves the Torah, based on the Pasuk in Mishlei "Yesh Mefazer ve'Nosaf Od"?

2. ... does not love Torah?

(e)On which Pasuk is the latter ruling base?

4)

(a)What did bar Kapara say about ...

1. ... goods that are cheap?

2. ... a town where there is not a man (to teach Torah)?

(b)What did Abaye extrapolate from there?

(c)How do we answer the Kashya 'P'shita' (that one should not Pasken in front of one's Rebbe)?

(d)Why should one then refrain from teaching?

5)

(a)What does the Pasuk in Mishlei mean when it says...

1. ... "be'Chol Derachecha D'eihu"?

2. ... "ve'Hu Yeyasher Orchosecha"?

(b)What did bar Kapara comment on this Pasuk?

(c)What did Rava comment on that (presumably based on the word "be'Chol")?

(d)What is an example of 'Afilu li'Devar Aveirah"?

6)

(a)bar Kapara also maintains that a person should pick a profession that contains two specifications, one of them is that it should be clean. What does 'clean' mean?

(b)What is the other specification?

(c)An example of this is 'Machta de'Talmiyusa'. What profession is that?

7)

(a)bar Kapara further advises a person not to invite too many friends to one's house, based on the Pasuk in Mishlei "Ish Re'im Lehisro'ei'a". What does "Lehisro'ei' mean?

(b)What does Rebbi in a Beraisa, say about appointing a manager who lives in the house to look after one's affairs?

(c)What was his source for this?

(d)And how does he explain the juxtaposition of the Parshah of Nazir to that of Sotah in Parshas Naso?

8)

(a)How does Chizkiyah b'rei de'Rebbi Parnach quoting Rebbi Yochanan explain the juxtaposition of the Pasuk "ve'Ish es Kodashav lo Yih'yu' (in connection with T'rumos and Ma'asros to that of "Ve'heivi ha'Ish es Ishto" (in connection with Sotah [in Parshas Naso])?

(b)What does he add to the D'rashah, based on the earlier Pasuk concerning the earlier Pasuk?

(c)And what does Rav Nachman bar Yitzchak Darshen from the continuation of the Pasuk "Ish asher Yiten la'Kohen lo Yih'yeh"?

9)

(a)When Rebbi Huna bar B'rechyah in the name of Rebbi Elazar ha'Kapar talks about someone who is 'Meshatef Hash-m be'Tza'aro', he might be referring to someone who recites a B'rachah "Baruch dayan ha'Emes' over 'bad' things. What else might he mean?

(b)Based on the Pasuk in Iyov "ve'Hayah Shakai be'Tzarecha ve'Chesef To'afos (doubled) lach", what does he say will happen to someone who does this?

(c)On what basis does Rebbi Shmuel bar Nachmeni learn from the same Pasuk that his Parnasah will fly in like a bird?

10)

(a)Based on the Pasuk in Mishlei "Hisrapisa be'Yom Tzarah, Tzarah Tzar ke'Chakeh", what does Rebbi Tavi quoting Rebbi Yashiyah say about someone who is lax in 'words of Torah'?

(b)And what does Rebbi Ami bar Masna quoting Shmuel add, bearing in mind that the Pasuk simply says "Hisrapisa"?

11)

(a)Rav Safra quoted Rebbi Avahu, in connection with something that Rebbi Chananyah did. Who was Rebbi Chananyah?

(b)Which two things did he do after he went to the Golah?

(c)What was wrong with that, based on the Pasuk in Re'ei "le'Shichno Sidr'shu u'Va'sa Shamah"?

(d)What do Rebbi Yossi ben Kipar and the grandson of Zecharyah ben Kevutal have to do with the story?

12)

(a)What did the two above Talmidei-Chachamim reply when Rebbi Chananyah asked them why they had come?

(b)What title did he confer upon them, and what did he say their ancestors used to do?

(c)What did Zecharyah ben Kevutal testify about himself, in connection with the Kohen Gadol on the night of Yom Kipur?

(d)What happened in the ensuing Torah discussion?

(e)What did they comment when he then accused of being men of no consequence?

13)

(a)What did Rebbi Yossi ben Kipar and the grandson of Zecharyah ben Kevutal answer when Chananyah asked them why they were declaring Tahor whatever he declare Tamei, and permitting whatever he forbade.

(b)What did he reply when they ...

1. ... accused him of declaring leap-years and fixing Roshei Chodashim in Chutz la'Aretz?

2. ... pointed out that when Rebbi Akiva went to Chutz la'Aretz, he left behind nobody who could compare with him?

(c)And what did they mean when they countered 'Gedayim Na'aseh Teyashim'?

(d)Why did they add the words 'Ba'alei Karnayim'?

(e)What in fact did these 'goats with horns' instruct them to warn Chananyah?

14)

(a)What did the two Talmidei Chachamim mean when, following instructions, they said to 'their brother in the Golah' 've'Im Lo, Ya'alu la'Har; Achiyah Yivneh Mizbe'ach, Chananya Yenagen be'Chinor'?

(b)Why would specifically Chananya play the harp?

(c)And what would all the people of the Golah proclaim?

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15)

(a)How did the people of the Golah react when they heard the stern warning of the two Talmidei-Chachamim?

(b)What is the source of the Din that the leap-years and the months must be fixed in Eretz Yisrael (i.e. Yerushalayim')?

(c)What does the Beraisa say about a Chacham declaring Tahor what his colleague has declared Tamei, or Mutar what he has declared Asur?

(d)On what grounds did the two Talmidei-Chachamim do precisely that to Chananya?

16)

(a)The Beraisa relates what happened when Rebbi Yehudah, Rebbi Yossi, Rebbi Nechemyah and Rebbi Eliezer b'Rebbi Yossi entered Kerem be'Yavneh. What is 'Kerem be'Yavneh'?

(b)Why is it called a 'Kerem'?

(c)Each one made a D'rashah. What did all the D'rashos have in common?

(d)What is 'Achsanyah' referring to?

17)

(a)Rebbi Yehudah was the first to Darshen. Who conferred upon him the title 'Rosh ha'Medabrim be'Chol Makom'?

(b)What did he do to earn it?

(c)In whose honor did he now Darshen?

(d)He learned a Kal va'Chomer from the Pasuk in Ki Sissa "u'Moshe Yikach es ha'Ohel ve'Natah lo mi'Chutz la'Machaneh". How far outside the camp did he place the Ohel Mo'ed?

18)

(a)He Darshened a Kal va'Chomer from the people who traveled the three Parsah to the Ohel Mo'ed. What does the Pasuk refer to them as?

(b)What is the Kal va'Chomer?

19)

(a)Rebbi Yitzchak explains the Pasuk there "ve'Diber Hash-m El Moshe Panim El Panim" to mean that Hash-m said to Moshe 'Come, let us learn Halachah together'. What is his alternative explanation?

(b)In connection with the Pasuk there "ve'Shav el ha'Machaneh", how did Rebbi Avahu explain Hash-m's concern that Moshe should return to the camp?

(c)What threat did Hash-m issue Moshe with should he decline to conform with Hash-m's request to return the Ohel Mo'ed to the camp?

(d)What did Rava extrapolate from the conclusion of the Pasuk "u'Meshorso Yehoshua ben Nun Na'ar Lo Yamush mi'Toch ha'Ohel"?

20)

(a)Rebbi Yehudah now Darshens the Pasuk in Ki Savo "Haskes u'Shema Yisrael, ha'Yom ha'Zeh Niheyesa le'Am", again in honor of the Torah and those who study it. How does he explain the Pasuk, bearing in mind that the Torah had been given forty years earlier?

(b)How does Rebbi Tanchum bar Chiya Ish K'far Acco support Rebbi Yehudah from someone who recites the Sh'ma twice a day and who forgets to it one night?

(c)What is "Haskeis" the acronym of?

21)

(a)Rebbi Yehudah's latter statement conforms with a statement of Rebbi Yossi b'Rebbi Chanina. What does Rebbi Yossi b'Rebbi Chanina say, based on the Pasuk in Yirmiyahu "Cherev el ha'Badim ... "?

(b)How does he explain the next word in the Pasuk "ve'Noalu"?

(c)And he bases this in turn, on the Pasuk in Beha'aloscha (in connection with the Lashon ha'Ra that Aharon and Miriam spoke about Moshe) "asher No'alnu ... " or from the Pasuk in Yeshayah "No'alu Sarei Tzo'an". What does he learn from the next two words in the Pasuk in Beha'aloshca?

22)

(a)Alternatively, Rebbi Yehudah explains the Pasuk in Ki Savo ("Haskeis u'Shema") as 'Katsu Atzmechem al Divrei Torah'. What does he mean by that?

(b)And we supprt this with a statement of Resh Lakish. What did Resh Lakish say based on the Pasuk in Chukas "Zos ha'Torah, Adam ki Yamus be'Ohel"?

(c)Another interpretation of "Haskeis" is that it is the acronym of 'Has (ve'achar-kach) Kateis', in keeping with a statement of Rava. What did Rava say?

23)

(a)Bei Rebbi Yanai Darshens the Pasuk in Mishlei "For the juice of milk will produce butter, the juice of anger (Af), blood, and the juice of great anger (Apayim), arguments (in words of Torah)". How does he explain ...

1. ... " ... the juice of milk will produce butter"?

2. ... "the juice of anger (Af), blood"?

3. ... "the juice of great anger (Apayim), arguments "?

(b)We connect the latter explanation with a statement of Rebbi Yishmael in a Mishnah in Bava Basra. What did he say there about someone who wishes to become wise?

(c)Why is that?

(d)To what does the Tana compare them?

24)

(a)Rebbi Shmuel bar Nachmeni, still in honor of Torah and its Talmidim, explains the Pasuk there "Im Navalta, be'Hisnasei" to mean that a Talmid who causes himself embarrassment will eventually be elevated. What does he mean by 'causes himself embarrassment'?

(b)And how does he explain the continuation of the Pasuk "ve'Im Zamosa, Yad le'Peh"?

25)

(a)The next Tana to begin his D'rashah 'in honor of the host' Rebbi Nechemyah, cited a Pasuk in Shmuel (in connection with King Shaul's instructions to the Keini). Who were the 'Keini'?

(b)What did Shaul instruct them to do and why?

(c)On what grounds did he tell them to do so?

(d)What Kal va'Chomer did Rebbi Nechemyah learn from there?

26)

(a)The third Tana, Rebbi Yossi, Darshened from a Pasuk in Ki Seitzei. Why does the Pasuk command us not to reject ...

1. ... an Edumite?

2. ... an Egyptian?

(b)Rebbi Yossi Darshened from the Pasuk in Vayigash that the Egyptians accepted our fathers in Egypt for their own benefit. Which Pasuk in Vayigash?

(c)What Kal va'Chomer did Rebbi Yossi learn from there?

27)

(a)Rebbi Eliezer, son of Rebbi Yossi ha'Gelili, the last of the four Tana'im to begin in honor of the host, Darshened from a Pasuk in Shmuel, which discusses Hash-m's blessing of Oveid Edom ha'Giti, who housed the Aron (which neither eats nor drinks) for a few months. What did he do for the Aron?

(b)Based on Pesukim in Divrei ha'Yamim, what reward did Oveid Edom receive?

(c)How does the Pasuk arrive at the number sixty-two?

(d)What Kal va'Chomer did Rebbi Eliezer, son of Rebbi Yossi ha'Gelili make?

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