1)

(a)If the Shali'ach who is bringing the Get loses it and then finds it again, our Mishnah rules that sometimes the Get is Kosher and sometimes it is not. When is it Kosher?

(b)Why is the Get not Kosher should he find it only later?

(c)Under which circumstances will the Get be Kosher even if he does?

(d)Will the Get be Kosher if the Shali'ach recognizes it?

2)

(a)The Mishnah in Bava Metzia rules that someone who finds Gitei Nashim or other Shtaros, should not return them to either party. Why should he not return them to the person who is named as the recipient?

(b)How does this ruling then clash with our Mishnah?

(c)What distinction does Rabah make to reconcile the two Mishnayos?

(d)What additional condition do we add before the Tana of our Mishnah will invalidate the Get?

3)

(a)What did ...

1. ... Rav Huna rule with regard to a certain Get that was found in his Beis-Din in which the Sofer had written 'in Sheviri the town that is on the River Nachis'?

2. ... Rav Chisda instruct Rabah to do?

3. ... Rabah extrapolate from the Mishnah in Bava Metzia 'Kol Ma'aseh Beis-Din Yachzir'? What is the significance of 'Ma'aseh Beis-Din'?

(b)And what can we now extrapolate from Rabah's ruling there?

(c)On what grounds did Rabah rule that the Get was found in the flax-house of Pumbedisa should be returned?

(d)Some say that it was the house where they soaked the flax; whereas according to others, it was the house where they sold it. What is the difference between the two opinions? How will that help to explain Rabah's ruling?

4)

(a)The Beraisa rules that if someone finds a Get in the street, then, assuming that the husband agrees, he must return it to the woman (even after a long time). How does Rebbi Zeira reconcile this Beraisa with our Mishnah, which invalidates a Shtar that the Shali'ach lost and found only later, for fear that this may not be the Get that he lost?

(b)Does the Beraisa speak when there is another Yosef ben Shimon in the same town or not?

(c)Should the husband not admit that he wrote the Get, the finder does not return it to either of them. It is obvious why he does not return it to the woman. But why should he not return it to the husband?

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5)

(a)Why does ...

1. ... Rabah prefer to deal with the discrepancy between our Mishnah and the Mishnah in Bava Metzia ('Matza Gitei Nashim ... Harei Zeh Lo Yachzir, she'ani Omer ... ')?

2. ... Rebbi Zeira prefer to deal with the discrepancy between our Mishnah and the Beraisa ('Matza Get Ishah ba'Shuk, bi'Zeman she'ha'Ba'al Modeh, Yachzir la'Ishah ... ')?

(b)Why does the Beraisa imply that it speaks after a long time?

(c)Why can we not say the same with regard to the Mishnah in Bava Metzia?

6)

(a)Rebbi Yirmeyahu explains that the witnesses testified that they only signed on one Shtar with these two names on it. Which Kashya is he coming to resolve?

(b)If the Tana'im are talking about such a case, what exactly is the Chidush? Why might we have thought that the Shtar should not be returned?

(c)Rav Ashi establishes the Mishnah in Bava Metzia and the Beraisa when the person who lost the Shtar testifies that there is a hole beside such and such a letter. Why does he require such a strong Siman? Why is a hole anywhere in the Shtar not sufficient?

7)

(a)When Rabah bar bar Chanah lost a Get in the Beis ha'Midrash, they returned it to him for one of two possible reasons. What were they?

(b)What is the difference between the two reasons?

(c)Why is it necessary to say that Rabah bar bar Chanah gave Simanim that were not Muvhakim?

(d)What made him say, assuming that Beis-Din returned him the Get on the basis of Simanim, that they must have held that 'Simanim d'Oraisa'? What if they would have held 'Simanim d'Rabanan'?

8)

(a)We learned in our Mishnah that a Shali'ach who loses a Get and then finds it is believed that the Get that he found is the one he lost, provided he finds it immediately. The Tana'im in a Beraisa argue over the meaning of 'immediately'. How does Rebbi Nasan interpret it?

(b)Rebbi Shimon ben Elazar gives the Shi'ur as the time it takes for a person to keep check that nobody passed by. What does he mean?

(c)'Yesh Omrim' is slightly more lenient. What does he say?

(d)Rebbi gives the Shi'ur as within the time it takes to write a Get. What does ...

1. ... Rebbi Yitzchak (who is more stringent than Rebbi) say?

2. ... 'Acherim' (who is slightly more lenient than Rebbi Yitzchak) say?

9)

(a)Rav Yehudah Amar Shmuel rules within the time it takes for someone to keep check that nobody stopped at that location (like 'Yesh Omrim'). What does Rabah bar bar Chanah quoting Rav Yitzchak bar Shmuel rule?

(b)Why did they not just state whose opinion they follow, rather than state the Halachah as if it was their own opinion?

10)

(a)With regard to the Get itself, what does the Beraisa describe as ...

1. ... an acceptable Siman?

2. ... an unacceptable one?

(b)What if one finds it after the required time has elapsed ...

1. ... tied to a purse or to a ring, which he recognizes?

2. ... in a drawer in his house?

(c)Our Mishnah validates the Get even after the required time has elapsed, if the Shali'ach finds it in a Chafisah or a Delusk'ma. How does Rabah bar bar Chanah define ...

1. ... a 'Chafisah'?

2. ... a 'Delusk'ma'?