Note: These review questions and answers are confined to Rashi's explanation (exclusively), except where otherwise indicated. Consequently, they do not necessarily follow the Halachah.

1)

(a)How do we learn the prohibition of Melachah on Chol ha'Mo'ed from the Pasuk "Sheshes Yamim Tochal Matzos uva'Yom ha'Shevi'i Atzeres la'Hashem Elokecha"?

(b)How do we ...

1. ... know that not all Melachos are forbidden?

2. ... determine which Melachos are prohibited and which are permitted?

2)

(a)Our Mishnah permits watering a Beis ha'Shelachin on Chol ha'Mo'ed from a fountain. What is a 'Beis ha'Shelachin'?

(b)Does it make any difference whether the fountain began flowing only now or whether it has been flowing for a long time?

(c)But it forbids watering one's field using rainwater or 'Mei Kilon'. What is 'Mei Kilon'?

(d)Why is that?

3)

(a)The Tana Kama states 'Ein Osin Ugiyos li'Gefanim'. What does this mean?

(b)Why is this forbidden?

(c)Rebbi Elazar ben Azaryah forbids an Amah both on Chol ha'Mo'ed and in the Shemitah. What is an Amah? Why is it called by that name?

(d)In which point do the Chachamim disagree with Rebbi Elazar ben Azaryah? What is the difference between Shemitah and Chol ha'Mo'ed according to them?

4)

(a)The Mishnah continues 'u'Mesaknin es Kilkulei Mayim she'bi'Reshus ha'Rabim, v'Chotetin Osan'. What are 'Kilkulei Mayim? What does 've'Chotetin Osan' mean?

(b)Which principle governs our Mishnah, which concedes that repairing the roads and Mikva'os is permitted?

(c)On what grounds does the Tana permit ...

1. ... marking the graves (see Tosfos DH 'u'Metzainin')?

2. ... the Beis Din to send out their Sheluchim to tend to the removal of Kil'ayim (see Tosfos DH 've'Yotz'in')?

5)

(a)Why might we have thought that watering even a Beis ha'Shelachin would be forbidden, should one use water from a new fountain?

(b)In that case, having taught us that it is permitted, why does the Tana find it necessary to add that it is also permitted to water a Beis ha'Shelachin using water from an old, established fountain?

(c)What do we learn from the Targum of the Pasuk ...

1. ... in Ki Setzei "v'Atah Ayef v'Yage'a " ("v'At Meshalhi v'La'i")?

2. ... in Yeshayah "Ki Yiv'al Bachur Besulah" ("Arei K'mah d'Misosiv Olam im Besulta ... ")?

6)

(a)Why does the Tana of our Mishnah draws this distinction between a Beis ha'Shelachin and a Sadeh Beis ha'Ba'al?

(b)On what grounds does Rav Huna establish our Mishnah like Rebbi Eliezer ben Yakov, who permits (in a Mishnah later) digging a water-trench in a Sadeh Beis ha'Ba'al, but not to water the entire field?

(c)And on what grounds do we reject Rav Huna's contention?

7)

(a)Rav Papa therefore establishes our Mishnah like Rebbi Yehudah in the Beraisa, where Rebbi Meir permits watering even a Sadeh Beis ha'Ba'al using a new fountain on Chol ha'Mo'ed. What does Rebbi Yehudah say?

(b)Why can 'became destroyed' not mean just what it says?

(c)What does it then mean?

(d)What does Rebbi Elazar ben Azaryah say?

8)

(a)What does Rebbi Yehudah forbid, even in a Sadeh Beis ha'Shelachin because of excess trouble (see Tosfos DH 'Yeser")?

(b)On what basis does Rav Papa conclude that the author of our Mishnah is Rebbi Yehudah?

(c)What strong objection do we initially raise against Rav Papa's contention?

(d)According to the conclusion (that Rebbi Yehudah forbids even using an old established fountain to water a Beis ha'Ba'al), why does the Beraisa confine itself to a new one?

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9)

(a)According to Rabah, if someone wants to weed or to water plants on Shabbos, one warns him that he is transgressing a Toldah of plowing. What does Rav Yosef say?

(b)What is the logic behind saying that it is a Toldah of ...

1. ... plowing?

2. ... sowing?

(c)On what grounds does Abaye query both his Rebbes?

(d)The Kashya remains unanswered. The proof that someone who contravenes two Melachos with one action can be Chayav two Chata'os is from a ruling of Rav Kahana. What does Rav Kahana say with regard to someone who prunes his tree?

10)

(a)The Tana Kama of the Beraisa sentences someone who weeds or covers over Kil'ayim with earth to Malkus. Why does this Beraisa appear to concur with Rav Yosef, and not with Rabah?

(b)How does Rabah answer the Kashya? If one is not Chayav for plowing or for sowing, why will one be Chayav, according to Rabah?

(c)How does he reconcile this with the Seifa, in which Rebbi Akiva introduces the Isur of Mekayem Kil'ayim (implying that the Tana Kama holds that he is not)?

11)

(a)How does Rebbi Akiva learn from the Pasuk in Kedoshim "Sadcha Lo Sizra Kil'ayim" that someone who maintains Kil'ayim contravenes a Lav?

(b)The Tana of our Mishnah incorporates Shemitah in the concession of watering a Beis ha'Shelachin. Why is this a Kashya both on Rabah and on Rav Yosef?

12)

(a)Abaye answers the Kashya by establishing our Mishnah by Shevi'is nowadays, according to Rebbi. What does Rebbi learn from the Pasuk in Re'eh "v'Zeh Devar ha'Shemitah Shamot"?

(b)How does this solve the problem?

(c)Rava has a more radical approach. What does he say about Toldos?

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