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1)

(a)If the smallest possible Erech is one Sela, what is the largest?

(b)How do we learn the minimum Shi'ur from the Pasuk in Bechukosai "ve'Chol Erk'cha Yih'yeh be'Shekel ha'Kodesh"?

(c)From where do we learn the maximum Shi'ur?

(d)On what grounds does a poor man pay a Sela?

2)

(a)What does the Mishnah now say about a poor man over twenty who undertakes to give his own Erech (See Tosfos Yom Tov) and who becomes rich after paying ...

1. ... a Sela?

2. ... less than a Sela?

(b)Based on which Pasuk does Rebbi Meir say that in a case where the same poor man has five Sela'im, he only pays one Sela?

(c)What do the Chachamim say?

(d)Then why does the Torah write "ve'Chol Erk'chah ... "?

(e)Like whom is the Halachah?

3)

(a)The Mishnah now discusses a woman who errs in her counting with regard to Nidus. How many days must a woman count (min ha'Torah) if she sees ...

1. ... one day?

2. ... two consecutive days?

3. ... three consecutive days?

4. ... seven consecutive days?

(b)When does she enter the realm of Zivus?

(c)For how long is she then subject to Zivus?

4)

(a)What if, during the period of Zivus, a woman sees ...

1. ... once?

2. ... on two consecutive days?

(b)Assuming that she sees on three consecutive days, when does she become Tahor?

(c)When does she then re-enter the realm of Nidus?

(d)What if she does not see blood during the eleven days of Zivus, but sees on three consecutive days afterwards?

5)

(a)What does the Mishnah call the day that she resumes the cycle of Nidus and Zivus?

(b)What is the Tana referring to when he gives the minimum Shi'ur of Pesach as seven days and the maximum, as seventeen?

(c)Why, if she sees blood and cannot remember which period she is currently in, is the maximum Pesach seventeen days?

(d)Why does the Mishnah insert this case (and the subsequent Mishnah's) here?

6)

(a)Regarding the Dinim of Nega'im, what is ...

1. ... the minimum number of weeks?

2. ... the maximum number of weeks?

(b)In the former case, is the Metzora Tahor or Tamei?

(c)Which is the only branch of Tzara'as that can last three weeks?

(d)What is the case?

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7)

(a)If every month lasted exactly twenty-nine and a half days, then the months of the year would run alternately Malei Chaser, Malei Chaser. What is another name for 'Malei'?

(b)How many days are there in a month that is ...

1. ... Malei?

2. ... Chaser?

(c)What are the ramifications of the fact that a month lasts an extra forty minutes and seventy-three Chalakim (a Cheilek is one thousand and an eightieth of an hour)?

(d)What is the minimum and the maximum number of Me'ubarim that the Sanhedrin may fix annually?

8)

(a)The Sh'tei ha'Lechem are generally eaten only a day after they are baked? Why are they not baked on the day that they are eaten?

(b)On what occasion are they baked a day earlier still?

(c)What do the Kohanim do with the loaves before eating them?

9)

(a)The Mishnah gives the minimum time after baking that the Lechem ha'Panim can be eaten as nine days. What is the maximum?

(b)When are they normally baked and when are they eaten?

(c)On what occasion can they only be eaten ...

1. ... tenth day after baking?

2. ... on the eleventh day after baking?

(d)What is the reason behind these rulings?

10)

(a)What is the minimum number of days after birth on which a baby can be circumcised?

(b)What is the maximum number of days after birth that a healthy baby can be circumcised?

(c)On what occasion is he circumcised only on the tenth day?

(d)Why is that?

(e)On what occasion is he circumcised only on ...

1. ... the eleventh?

2. ... the twelfth?

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11)

(a)The Mishnah gives the minimum number of Teki'os in the Beis-ha'Mikdash on one day as twenty-one. What is the maximum?

(b)When do they actually blow fifty-seven Teki'os?

(c)Then why does the Tana not contend with it?

(d)If the minimum number of lyres (see also Tiferes Yisrael) that they played in the Beis-ha'Mikdash is two, what is the maximum?

12)

(a)What is the minimum number of flutes that they played in the Beis-ha'Mikdash?

(b)What is the significance of the twelve flutes that they sometimes played?

(c)What is special about the flute?

(d)Why does the Tana use the word 'Makeh' in connection with it?

13)

(a)Of the twelve days on which only the flutes played in front of the Mizbe'ach, two were the days on which they brought Pesach Rishon and Pesach Sheini. On which ...

1. ... two other days of Yom-Tov besides Succos, did they play it?

2. ... remaining eight days did they play it?

(b)Why did they opt to play on bamboo flutes rather than on copper ones?

(c)What does the Tana mean when he says that they would 'end with a single Ibuv'? What is an 'Ibuv'?

(d)Why was that?

14)

(a)What did the Levi'im sing on the twelve days when the flutes played?

(b)And what did they sing on the other days of the year?

(c)Which instruments did they play whilst the Shir shel Yom was being sung?

(d)When did they sing and play the instruments?

(e)What major difference is there between the instruments listed in this Mishnah and the instruments that they played during the Simchas Beis ha'Sho'eivah on Succos?

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15)

(a)According to Rebbi Yossi, the musicians were from the families of Beis ha'Pegarim, Beis-Tzefarya from Ma'ama'om. What is 'Ma'ama'om?

(b)What was special about these families?

(c)Who were the musicians, according to Rebbi Meir?

(d)What is the basis of their Machlokes?

16)

(a)Rebbi Chanina ben Antignos maintains that it was the Levi'im who played the instruments. What is his reason?

(b)Like whom is the Halachah?

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17)

(a)What is the minimum number of lambs that they kept in the Lishkas ha'Tela'im, ready to be brought as the Korban Tamid?

(b)How many days in advance did this cover?

(c)What does 'preparing them' entail?

(d)On what occasion did they have to prepare six lambs in advance?

(e)What is the maximum number of prepared lambs that one may prepare in advance?

18)

(a)What do we learn from the Gezeirah-Shavah "Mo'ado" "Mo'ado" from the Korban Pesach?

(b)When did they prepare the Korban Pesach in Egypt?

(c)How many lambs did they therefore initially require to be in the Lishkas ha'Tela'im?

19)

(a)What is the minimum number of ...

1. ... trumpets that the musicians played in the Beis-ha'Mikdash?

2. ... harps that they played?

(b)What is the maximum number of both instruments?

(c)What prompts the Gemara to quote a limit of hundred and twenty trumpets?

20)

(a)How many cymbals were there?

(b)Why does the Pasuk in Divrei ha'Yamim then write "Metzaltayim" (in the plural)?

(c)Whom does the Pasuk there quote as the sole player in the Beis-ha'Mikdash?

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21)

(a)What is the significance of the twelve Levi'im who stood on the Duchan?

(b)What is the Duchan?

(c)What is the maximum number of Levi'im allowed?

22)

(a)What is the Tana referring to when he says that, with one exception, a Katan does not enter the Azarah for the Avodah?

(b)What is the exception?

(c)What is he forbidden to do even then?

(d)Why is he then permitted to sing?

23)

(a)What does Rebbi Eliezer ben Ya'akov say about a Levi Katan making up the twelve Levi'im who need to play?

(b)Where exactly does he stand?

(c)Why did they call them 'Tzo'arei ha'Levi'im'?

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