What is the status of a building in which a Roman legion enters?
- It is Tamei; we presume that the soldiers killed someone when they entered.
- It is Tahor, we do not presume that the soldiers killed someone when they entered.
- It is Tamei; legionaries carry human skeletons with them for Keshafim.
- It is Tamei; legionaries carry heads with them for Keshafim.
- It is Tamei; legionaries carry Neveilos with them to eat, and it may have touched the furniture or other things in the house.
What do Rav and Rav Asi disagree about?
- If a person who begins to flay a hide becomes Tamei.
- If a person who touches a Tefach adjacent to the flesh becomes Tamei, after having already begun to flay the flesh.
- If someone becomes Tamei when touching the second to closest Tefach (“the doubled Tefach”) adjacent to the flesh.
- Machlokes between answers A and B.
- Machlokes between answers B and C.
Why aren’t Chazal concerned that a Kohen will not sufficiently rip the windpipe and food-pipe of the Olas Ha’Ohf?
- Kohanim are Zerizim, and there is no concern that they will not rip enough.
- The Torah says that they may not be totally ripped, and any Takanah that Chazal ordain may make the Kohen may rip too much.
- Chazal are wary to make Takanos in the Beis HaMikdash.
- The owner of the Korban is standing by the Kohen to make sure that he does a good job.
- The Kohen will become Tamei if he kills the bird in the wrong way, so he makes sure that he will do it right.
Which Tumah is DeRabbanan?
- A Neveilah.
- A Temei'ah
- Sheratzim.
- A Treifah, always.
- A Treifah, in Mukdashin.
Why isn't a hide still seen as attached to the animal while it is being flayed, maintaining a connection according to Reish Lakish?
- Indeed, Reish Lakish holds his Halachah by flaying a hide, as well.
- This is the case of a Treifah, where the Tumah is only Rabbanan.
- Each flaying makes it less attached, and it can never be reattached.
- Machlokes between answers A and B.
- Machlokes between answers B and C.