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1)

(a)What does the Mishnah say about a stolen Lulav and one that is dry?

(b)From which Pasuk in Emor do we learn that a stolen Lulav is Pasul?

(c)What if the owner already despaired from receiving it ('Achar Yi'ush')?

(d)And why is a dry Lulav Pasul?

2)

(a)The Mishnah also disqualifies a Lulav that comes from an Asheirah or from an Ir ha'Nidachas (a city whose inhabitants all served idols). What is an Asheirah?

(b)On what grounds does the Tana disqualify them?

(c)What if the top of the Lulav (See Tos. Yom-Tov) has been lopped off?

(d)Why is that?

3)

(a)The Mishnah declares 'Nifr'tzu Alav, Pasul', but 'Nifr'du Alav, Kasher'. What is the difference between the two?

(b)What does Rebbi Yehudah say about 'Nif'rdu Alav'?

(c)What are 'Tzinei Har ha'Barzel'?

(d)On what condition does the Mishnah declare it Kasher?

4)

(a)Why is the minimum size of a Lulav three Tefachim?

(b)What does the Tana mean when he adds 'K'dei Lena'ane'a bo'? How must we amend it (See Tiferes Yisrael)?

(c)How much does one need to add?

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5)

(a)What does the Mishnah say about a Hadas (See Tos. Yom-Tov) that is stolen or dry, that comes from an Asheirah or from an Ir ha'Nidachas, whose top has been lopped off (See Tos. Yom-Tov), or whose leaves are detached and tied on , in which case they

(b)What is the Halachah regarding the Din of a Hadas whose top has been lopped off

(c)What are the 'Aneenavav' to which the Tana then refers?

(d)On what condition do they render the Hadas Pasul?

(e)What distinction do we draw between red or black berries and green ones?

6)

(a)What can one do to render a Hadas with more berries than leaves Kasher?

(b)Why may one not do this on Yom-Tov?

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7)

(a)What does the Mishnah rule with regard to an Aravah...

1. ... that is stolen or dry, or one that is from an Asheirah or an Ir ha'Nidachas?

2. ... whose top has been lopped off or whose leaves are broken off and artificially tied to the stem?

(b)What is the Halachah regarding an Aravah whose top has been lopped off?

(c)A Tzaftzafah is Pasuk too. What is a 'Tzaftzafah'?

(d)The Mishnah declares valid however, an Aravah that is K'mushah, from which some of the leaves have dropped off (See Tos. Yom-Tov), or one of Ba'al is Kasher. What is an Aravah ...

1. ... 'K'mushah'?

2. ... of Ba'al?

(e)Bearing in mind that the Torah describes Aravos as "Arvei Nachal", why are ' Aravos shel Ba'al', Kasher?

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8)

(a)Rebbi Yishmael requires one Lulav and one Esrog. How many Hadasim and Aravos does he initially require?

(b)What problem do we have with the continuation of his words 'Even if the top of two of them are lopped off (K'tumim) ... '?

(c)How do we explain this?

(d)Then what is the significance of two K'tumim?

9)

(a)Rebbi Tarfon requires three Hadasim and two Aravos (like Rebbi Yishmael held initially). What does he say about K'tumim?

(b)What is his reason?

(c)What does Rebbi Akiva hold?

(d)Like whom is the Halachah?

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10)

(a)What does the Mishnah say about an Esrog (See Tos. Yom-Tov) that is ...

1. ... stolen or dry?

2. ... taken from an Asheirah or an Ir ha'Nidachas?

3. ... Orlah?

4. ... Terumah Temei'ah?

(b)What is the reason that is common to all of these?

(c)What is the source for this?

(d)The Tana forbids Lechatchilah using an Esrog of Terumah Tehorah (See Tos. Yom-Tov). Why does he validate it Bedi'eved?

11)

(a)Beis Shamai declare an Esrog of D'mai invalid. On what grounds do Beis Hillel validate it?

(b)Why is an Esrog of Ma'aser Sheini outside Yerushalayim Pasul even Bedi'eved?

(c)What is the din regarding an Esrog of Ma'aser Sheini in Yerushalayim?

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12)

(a)The Mishnah declares Pasul an Esrog if the majority is covered with Chazazis. What is 'Chazazis'?

(b)On what condition will the Esrog be Pasul even if the Chazazis ...

1. ... covers only the minority of it?

2. ... takes on the form of no more than one spot?

(c)Why is that?

13)

(a)The Mishnah also declares the Esrog Pasul if the Pitum (at the top of the Esrog) has been removed, or if the Esrog is peeled (Niklaf) or split (See Tos. Yom-Tov). On which one of two (opposite) conditions is 'peeled' Pasul?

(b)Why can 'Niklaf' not mean that the entire peel has been removed, revealing the white section that surrounds the actual fruit?

(c)So what does it mean?

14)

(a)On what condition does the Tana declare Pasul an Esrog with a hole in it?

(b)And on what condition will the Esrog be Pasul even if ...

1. ... it is not Mefulash?

2. ... it is neither Chaser nor Mefulash (i.e. if one pushed a thick peg into it?

15)

(a)What does the Mishnah say about an Esrog whose minority is covered with Chazazis, its stalk has been removed or it has a hole without being Chaser (See Tos. Yom-Tov)?

(b)What is an Esrog ha'Kushi?

(c)On what condition is it Kasher?

16)

(a)Rebbi Meir declares Kasher an Esrog that is as green as Karsi. What is 'Karsi'?

(b)What does Rebbi Yehudah say?

(c)Like whom is the Halachah?

(d)How do we qualify all the current P'sulim?

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17)

(a)Rebbi Meir gives the minimum size of an Esrog is a walnut. What does Rebbi Yehudah say?

(b)Like whom is the Halachah?

(c)Rebbi Yehudah gives the maximum size of an Esrog is that two can be held in one hand (See Tos. Yom-Tov). What does Rebi Yossi say?

(d)Like whom is the Halachah?

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18)

(a)What does Rebbi Yehudah say about binding the Hadasim and the Aravos to the Lulav?

(b)What is his reason?

(c)Then why does Rebbi Meir permit using even string

19)

(a)How did Rebbi Meir try to prove his point from the men of Yerushalayim? What did they ostensibly use to tie their Lulavim?

(b)How did Rebbi Yehudah counter Rebbi Meir's proof?

(c)What is the Halachah?

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20)

(a)The Mishnah asks whereabouts in Hallel they used to shake Lulav. With which earlier Mishnah is this question connected?

(b)In answer to the She'eilah, by which two Pesukin do Beis Hillel obligate shake?

(c)Some explain that when they say 'be'Hodu la'Hashem Techilah ve'Sof', they mean both at the beginning of the Pasuk and at the end. What is the preferred explanation?

(d)What do Beis Shamai say?

21)

(a)What did Rebbi Akiva attest seeing Raban Gamliel and Rebbi Yehoshu'a do?

(b)Like whom is the Halachah?

22)

(a)One shakes the Lulav in all four directions (See Tos. Yom-Tov), up and down. Why does one shake it ...

1. ... in all four directions?

2. ... up and down?

(b)How is the shaking actually performed? How many times does one shake it whilst moving it ...

1. ... away from oneself?

2. ... back?

3. ... upwards?

4. ... back down?

23)

(a)What does the Mishnah say one should do if he comes home at night without having yet shaken the Lulav?

(b)What if he did not manage to shake Lulav all morning?

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24)

(a)What does the Mishnah say about someone who is having Hallel read to him by a slave, a woman or a Katan?

(b)Why does this earn him a curse?

(c)What does he answer if it is a Gadol who is reading Hallel for the community (as was common in those days)?

(d)Then why can one not simply do the same in the earlier case?

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25)

(a)What is the Tana referring to when he talks about the Minhag to repeat?

(b)What does he say about those parts where the local custom is ...

1. ... to repeat those sections?

2. ... to say them only once?

(c)Why did they institute theMinhag to repeat specifically those Pesukim?

(d)And what is he referring to when he draws a similar distinction between where the Minhag is to recite a B'rachah and where the Minhag is not to do so?

(e)What about the B'rachah before Hallel?

26)

(a)What is the Din regarding someone who purchases a Lulav from his 'friend' in the Sh'mitah-year?

(b)What sort of friend is the Mishnah talking about?

(c)Who is then the purchaser?

(d)On what grounds did the Chachamim forbid him to pay for the Esrog (which is intrinsically permitted)?

(e)Then why did they not extend the prohibition to the Esrog?

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27)

(a)What do we learn from the Pasuk in Emor (in connection with the Arba Minim) "Usemachtem Lifnei Hash-m Elokeichem Shiv'as Yamim" with regard to how many days one takes the Lulav ...

1. ... in the Beis-ha'Mikdash"?

2. ... in Yerushalayim (i.e. outside the Beis-ha'Mikdash)?

(b)What Takanah did Raban Yochanan ben Zakai institute after the destruction of the Beis-ha'Mikdash?

(c)Why did he do that?

28)

(a)He also instituted that 'Yom Henef' should be forbidden. What is 'Yom Henef'? What did he forbid?

(b)When would one otherwise have been permitted to eat Chadash ...

1. ... when the Beis-ha'Mikdash stood?

2. ... after it was destroyed?

(c)Then why did he forbid it until the next day?

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29)

(a)What did the people used to do wih their Lulavim if the first day of Yom-Tov fell on Shabbos?

(b)Why, the following morning, did everyone have to take care to find his own Lulav?

(c)From which Pasuk in Emor do we learn this?

(d)Why was this not necessary on the other days of Yom'Tov?

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30)

(a)What does Rebbi Yossi say about someone who forgets on the first day of Succos that falls on Shabbos, and carries out his Lulav into the street (See Tos. Yom-Tov)?

(b)What is his reason?

(c)What major condition must be fulfilled without which he will be Chayav?

(d)Besides carrying it upside-down, how else might he have not been Yotzei when he walked with the Lulav into the street?

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31)

(a)What is a woman allowed to do with the Lulav of her husband or her son on Shabbos (See Tos Yom-Tov)?

(b)Why might we have thought otherwise?

(c)What distinction does Rebbi Yehudah draw between what to do with the Lulav on Shabbos (See Tos. Yom-Tov), Yom-Tov and Chol-ha'Mo'ed?

(d)Like whom is the Halachah?

32)

(a)What does the Mishnah finally obligate a father to do if he has a son who has reached the age of Chinuch?

(b)What is considered the age of Chinuch as far as Lulav is concerned?

(c)What is the source of this Chiyuv?

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