Mishnah 1
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1)

(a)Our Mishnah discusses with what one may 'wrap' a boiling pot that one has removed from the Kirah and with what one may not. About which time period is the Tana speaking?

(b)What does the owner intend to wrap it with that renders it forbidden?

(c)The Tana's list of what one may not use includes Gefes, dung, salt. lime and sand, wet or dry. What is 'Gefes'?

(d)What is the Tana referring to when he specifies 'wet or dry'?

(e)Why did he find it necessary to mention it?

2)

(a)The Tana concludes the list with straw, Zagin, Mukin and grasses. What is the definition of 'Zagin'?

(b)What does 'Mukin' mean?

(c)When the Tana adds the clause that they are only forbidden if they are wet, to what is he referring?

(d)When are they all permitted even if they are wet?

(e)What kind of Mukin are intrinsically wet?

3)

(a)In his list of things with which one is permitted to wrap, the Tana includes clothes, fruit, dove's feathers, sawdust and the fine shakings from combed flax. What does Rebbi Yehudah say ...

1. ... in this last case?

2. ... with regard to the fine shavings of sawdust?

(b)Like whom is the Halachah?

(c)Why did the Chachamim forbid wrapping hot food with something which ...

1. ... increases the heat on Erev Shabbos?

2. ... even merely maintains the heat on Shabbos itself?

(d)What did the Tana say at the end of the second Perek with regard to wrapping hot food with something which merely maintains the heat during bein-ha'Shemashos (as we learned there)?

(e)Why is that?

4)

(a)On what basis does the Rambam invert the reasons for the prohibition of wrapping on Erev Shabbos and on Shabbos?

Mishnah 2
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5)

(a)Besides the fact that one may wrap with them, what else does the Mishnah say about ...

1. ... skins?

2. ... shearings of wool?

(b)What makes the latter Muktzah?

(c)Why are the former not Muktzah?

(d)On what condition will the latter become permitted too?

6)

(a)If one wrapped one's pot using shearings of wool, how does one then open the pot to gain access to its contents?

(b)Why is the lid not a Basis to the shearings?

7)

(a)Why does Rebbi Elazar ben Azaryah obligate tipping the pot in order to take some of contents? Why can one not simply remove it from the shearings?

(b)What do the Chachamim say?

(c)What if the shearings do indeed cave in, according to them?

(d)Like whom is the Halachah?

8)

(a)If one forgot to wrap one's pot on Erev Shabbos, is there a way that one may do so on Shabbos Bedi'eved?

(b)What if one wrapped it before Shabbos but the cover slipped off?

(c)What does the Tana say about placing a jar of water or food underneath one's Kar or Kesses (blanket or cushion [Tiferes Yisrael - see Tos. Yom. Tov] on Shabbos?

(d)Seeing as they are full of stuffing, why is this not forbidden on account of Hatmanah?

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