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1)

(a)What does Rebbi Meir say about someone who finds scattered fruit, scattered money or sheaves in the street?

(b)What reason governs all the cases in the Mishnah?

(c)What causes the owner to give up hope of retrieving his lost article?

(d)What kind of sheaves is the Tana referring to?

(e)Why may the finder keep them even if they have a Si'man?

2)

(a)The list continues with Igulei Deveilah, bakers' loaves and strings of fish. What are 'Igulei Deveilah'?

(b)Why specifically 'bakers' loaves'?

(c)The list ends with pieces of meat, shearings of wool which come straight from the 'Medinah' (where they have been shorn [See Tos. Yom-Tov]), tight bundles of flax and straps of purple wool. What do all of these have in common?

3)

(a)What does Rebbi Yehudah say about anything that has a Shinuy (something unusual about it)?

(b)One of his two examples of this is a round cake of figs with a piece of clay inside it. What is the other?

(c)According to Rebbi Shimon ben Elazar, one is not obligated to announce K'lei Anpurya that one finds. What are 'K'lei Anpurya'?

(d)Seeing as he is talking about vessels that do not have a Si'man, why does he even need to mention it?

(e)Like whom is the Halachah?

4)

(a)On what condition is one Chayav to announce even K'lei Anpurya?

(b)If one finds a lost article with a Si'man on a main thoroughfare, on what condition is one ...

1. ... Patur from announcing it?

2. ... Chayav to announce it?

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5)

(a)The Mishnah obligates someone who finds fruit inside a vessel or just a vessel, money inside a purse or just a purse to announce it. How must the owner identify them?

(b)The Tana issues the same ruling with regard to piles of either fruit or money. In which two ways does the owner identify these?

(c)On what two conditions is one obligated to announce coins that one finds?

(d)What does the finder then announce?

6)

(a)The next three items on the Tana's current list are sheaves, loaves and shearings of wool. On what condition is the finder obligated to announce each of them.

(b)One of the last two items on the list is jugs of wine. What is the last item?

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7)

(a)What is the difference between a Gapah and a Geder.

(b)What does the Mishnah say about fledglings that one finds tied by their wings behind one of them or on a path in the field?

(c)Why is the knot not a Si'man?

8)

(a)If one finds a vessel in a trash-heap, on what condition must one must leave it where it is?

(b)What should one do if it is not covered?

(c)The Tana also discusses a Metzi'ah that one finds in a pile of rubble or in an old wall. On what condition is one permitted to keep it?

(d)Why is that?

9)

(a)If one finds it in a new wall, on what condition ...

1. ... may one keep it?

2. ... must one leave it for the owner of the wall?

(b)This speaks specifically about a lump of gold or a piece of silver. What if he finds a vessel with money inside it?

(c)And on what condition does the Mishnah permit the finder to keep a Metzi'ah that he finds even inside the house?

(d)Why is that?

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10)

(a)Why does the Mishnah permit a finder to keep a Metzi'ah (without a Si'man) that he finds inside a store?

(b)What if one finds it between the box/till that lies on the counter in front of the shopkeeper?

(c)What will be the equivalent Din if one finds money in a bank (as it existed in the time of the Mishnah), when may he keep it and when must he hand it over to the banker?

11)

(a)If Reuven finds money among fruit that he purchased from Shimon, the Mishnah permits him to keep it. What if he finds it among fruit that Shimon sent him?

(b)What is the case? Why do we not simply assume that the money belongs to Shimon?

(c)On what condition is Reuven obligated to ...

1. ... return the money to Shimon?

2. ... take it and announce it?

(d)What is the reason for the latter ruling?

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12)

(a)The Mishnah begins with the statement 'Also "Simlah" (a garment) is included. Included in what?

(b)So why did the Torah see fit to mention it independently? What category of object does it come to include (in the Mitzvah of Hashavas Aveidah)?

(c)The Tana adds 've'Yesh lo Tov'im' - What does 'Tov'im' mean?

(d)What does it come to exclude?

(e)What constitutes 'Yi'ush'?

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13)

(a)Regarding the length of time that one needs to announce it, Rebbi Meir is very lenient. What does he say?

(b)Whose neighbors is he referring to?

14)

(a)Rebbi Yehudah requires three Regalim plus. Plus what?

(b)What is the significance of the extra seven days?

(c)Like whom is the Halachah?

(d)What was the Halachah during the period ...

1. ... following the Churban Beis-ha'Mikdash?

2. ... that officers would confiscate whatever a person found for the king's coffers?

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15)

(a)What does the Mishnah say about someone who identifies the article but fails to give clear identification marks (See Tos. R. Akiva Eiger)?

(b)What if the person who claims the article is known to be a swindler?

(c)How do we learn this from the Pasuk in Ki Seitzei (in connection with returning a lost article) "ad D'rosh Achicha oso"?

16)

(a)What distinction does the Tana draw between an animal that one finds that works and eats, and one that eats but does not work?

(b)How do we learn this from the Pasuk there "Vahashevoso lo"?

(c)Why should he not sell the former and return the proceeds to the owner when he claims it?

17)

(a)The Chachamim limited the time that the finder is obligated to take the trouble of tending to the animal that he finds before selling it and holding on to the proceeds. If they gave him twelve months to look after chickens, how long did they obligate him to look after large animals (such as oxen)

(b)They draw a distinction between animals that have been designated for breeding (such as foals and calves, kids and lambs) and those that are designated for fattening. If the time period of the former is three months, what is the time period of the latter?

(c)What options does he have when the above time-periods elapse?

18)

(a)According to Rebbi Tarfon, the finder is permitted to make use of the proceeds. What does Rebbi Akiva say?

(b)What are the ramifications of their Machlokes?

(c)What if he did not actually use it, according to Rebbi Tarfon?

(d)Like whom is the Halachah?

19)

(a)In which case does even Rebbi Tarfon concede that one may not touch the money of a Metzi'ah?

(b)What is the case?

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20)

(a)What is the Mishnah referring to when it discusses how one treats Sefarim that one finds?

(b)How often does the Tana obligate the finder to read them?

(c)What if he is unable to read?

(d)Why is this necessary?

21)

(a)What does the Tana mean when he says that one should not learn something to begin with?

(b)Why is that?

(c)Why may he not permit anybody else to read together with him?

22)

(a)What is the finder obligated to do every thirty days with an article of clothing that he finds?

(b)Why is that necessary?

(c)What is he not permitted to do when spreading it out?

23)

(a)If the Metzi'ah consists of silver and copper vessels, one should use them once every thirty days. Why is this necessary?

(b)Why are they likely to become rusty?

(c)What should he take care not to do?

(d)What if the vessels are made of gold or of glass?

(e)The latter are not subject to rust. Why else are the Chachamim more stringent as regards glass vessels?

24)

(a)What does the Tana finally say about someone who finds a sack, a large box or anything else that he does not normally carry?

(b)To whom does this ruling refer?

(c)How does he learn this from the Pasuk there "Vehis'alamta meihem"?

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25)

(a)What distinction does the Mishnah draw between a donkey or a cow that one finds grazing by the side of the road and a donkey with its paraphernalia overturned or a cow running among the vines?

(b)Why is the cow in the latter case considered an Aveidah?

(c)What must one do if one returns an animal that one finds and it runs away again?

(d)Up to how many times must one do this?

(e)From which Pasuk in Ki Seitzei does the Tana learn it?

26)

(a)The Mishnah permits someone returning a lost article to claim work-loss like a 'Po'el Bateil'. What does this mean?

(b)The Tana gives him a better option, provided there is a Beis-Din on hand. What constitutes a 'Beis-Din' in this regard?

(c)What better option does he then have?

(d)What if there is no Beis-Din present and he does not want to suffer any work-loss?

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27)

(a)What distinction does the Tana now draw between a cow that one finds in a stable and one that one finds in a main road?

(b)What is the Chidush in the former case?

28)

(a)What should a Kohen do if he spots a lost cow in a Beis-ha'Kevaros?

(b)Why do we not apply the principle 'Asei Docheh Lo Sa'aseh'?

(c)What is the Asei of Hashavas Aveidah?

(d)If the Lo Sa'aseh of Tum'as Kohen in the Pasuk in Emor "le'Nefesh Lo Yitama be'Amav", what is the Asei?

29)

(a)What does the Tana say about a Kohen who orders his son to enter a Beis-ha'Kevaros in order to perform the Mitzvah of Hashavas Aveidah?

(b)What if he orders him not to pick up a lost article that he finds on the street?

(c)From which Pasuk in Kedoshim do we learn this?

30)

(a)The Mishnah now discusses the Pasuk in Mishpatim "Azov Ta'azov Imo". What is the Pasuk referring to?

(b)What does the Tana learn from ...

1. ... the double expression?

2. ... the word "Imo"?

(c)What if he leaves the job to him because he is old or sick?

31)

(a)What does the Tana mean when he states that it is a Mitzvah min ha'Torah to help unload (Lifrok) an animal but not to load (Lit'on)?

(b)What does Rebbi Shimon say?

(c)What does Rebbi Yossi ha'Gelili say, based on the 'Vav' in "Masa'o" (in the Pasuk "Tachas Masa'o")?

(d)Like whom is the Halachah in both of these Machlokos?

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32)

(a)What is the order of priorities there where both he and his father or he and his Rebbe have lost an article?

(b)On which Pasuk in Re'ei is this ruling based?

(c)What should one do if both his father and his Rebbe have lost articles?

33)

(a)How do we define 'Rebbe' in the current rulings?

(b)On what basis does a Rebbe take precedence over a father?

(c)On what condition will his father's Aveidah take precedence?

34)

(a)What is the equivalent Din in a case where both his father and his Rebbe both need ...

1. ... help to adjust a load that they are carrying?

2. ... to be redeemed from captivity?