1)

What is the connection between this Parshah and the previous one?

1.

Ba'al ha'Turim: The fact that it is common to find a corpse during wartime.

2)

What are the implications of "Ki Yimatzei"?

1.

Sotah, 45b and Sifri: It implies that it is a chance occurence to preclude where (the corpse is found on the border of the country or close to a town of Nochrim - Sotah, Ibid.), where murder is common. 1

2.

Yerushalmi, Sotah, 9:1 #1. It implies that the corpse is easily found - to preclude where it was hidden and required a search to find it. 2

3.

Yerushalmi, Sotah, 9:1 #2: "Ki Yimatzei" implies via witnesses - who testify that the found corpse fulfils all the necessary requireents. Refer to 21:1:2:1.

1

See Torah Temimah, note 1. Sifri: And that explains why the Chachamim cancelled the Eglah Arufah when murder beame rsmpant.

2

Refer to 21:1:2:1.

3)

What is the definition of a Chalal?

1.

Sotah, 44b and Yerushalmi, 9:2: A Chalal is someone who was killed - and is no longer shuddering 1 - by the sword, but not if he was strangled 2 (or cast down from a high place - Yerusalmi, Ibid). 3

1

See Torah Temimah, note 5, who elaborates.

2

See Torah Temimah, note 5, who elaborates. See also Torah Temimah, citing Yerushalmi Sotah, 9:2.

3

See Torah Temimah, note 6.

4)

What are the words "ba'Adamah", "Nofeil" and "ba'Sadeh" coming to preclude?

1.

Targum Yonasan and Sotah, 44b: "ba'Adamah" - precludes where the corpse is found buried underneath a pile of stones; 1 "Nofeil" - where it is hanging on a tree 2 , and "ba'Sadeh" - where it is floating on the water - which are all not subject to the Din of Eglah Arufah.

1

See Ba'al ha'Turim.

2

1. See Torah Temimah, note 11.

5)

What are the implications of "ba'Adamah asher Hashem Elokecha Nosein l'cha"?

1.

Yerushalmi Sotah, 9a: It precludes Chutz la'Aretz from the Din of Eglah Arufah. 1

2.

Sifri: It comes to incorporate Eiver ha'Yarden in the Din of Eglah Arufah. 2

1

See Torah Temimah, note 8 and Oznayim la'Torah, DH 'Ki Yimatzei Chalal ... ', who elaborates.

2

See Torah Temimah, note 9. See Oznayim la'Torah, DH 'Nosein l'cha'.

6)

Why does the Torah add the (otherwise superfluous) word "Nosen l'cha Lerishtah"?

1.

Sotah 45b: To preclude Yerushalayim - which was distributed among the tribes - from the Din of Eglah Arufah. 1

1

See Torah Temimah, note 10.

7)

What3 are the implications of the words "Nofel ba'Sadeh"?

1.

Sotah, 44b: "Nofel", 've'Lo Taluy be'Ilan'; 1 "ba'Sadeh", 've'Lo Tzaf al'P'nei ha'Mayim'..

1

See Torah Temimah, note 11.

8)

What are the implications of "Lo Noda Mi Hikahu"?

1.

Sotah, 47b and Yerushalmi Sotah, 9:1: It implies that if even one person knows the identity of the murderer - even if he lives at the other side of the world (and even if that person is an Eved Cana'ani or a Shifchah Cana'anis - Yerushalmi Sotah, 9:1) - they do not bring the Eglah Arufah. 1

1

See Torah Temimah, note 13.

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