Mishnah 1
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1)

(a)The Mishnah now discusses two people who are guarding Mei Chatas, and both become Tamei or perform Melachah before the Kidush. On what condition does the Mei Chatas ...

1. ... remain Tahor?

2. ... become Tamei?

(b)Why, in the former case, does it remain Tahor?

Mishnah 2
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2)

(a)What will be the Din if, whilst the person who is carrying Mei Chatas, Tamei liquid falls on ...

1. ... his body?

2. ... his hands?

(b)Why the difference?

3)

(a)Why is he not permitted to wear shoes?

(b)What if it falls on his clothes?

(c)Seeing as Tamei liquid is a Rishon, and the clothes on which it falls, a Sheini, on what grounds do the clothes then render his body Tamei?

(d)What does the body say to the shoes or to the clothes, in the event that it falls on either of them?

Mishnah 3
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4)

(a)The Mishnah declares Tamei the clothes that the one who burns Parah u'Parim is wearing. What does Parim refer to?

(b)What about ...

1. ... the clothes that he touches?

2. ... other vessels that he touches?

(c)Then what does clothes come to preclude?

5)

(a)What does the Tana say about ...

1. ... the person who takes the Sa'ir ha'Mishtale'ach out to Azazel?

2. ... the Parah, the Parim and the Sa'ir themselves?

(b)What can the clothes now say to the person who is wearing them or who touched them?

Mishnah 4
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6)

(a)How is the Neveilah of a Tahor bird Metamei?

(b)What is it Metamei?

(c)What if it touches ...

1. ... the clothes a person is wearing?

2. ... the Tahor person himself?

(d)What can the clothes now say to the person who is wearing them?

Mishnah 5 & 6

7)

(a)What is the difference between a V'lad (Rishon or Sheini) that touches Keilim, and a V'lad that touches liquid?

(b)What is the reason for the latter ruling?

(c)What does this case have in common with both the cases that precede it and those that follow it?

(d)Liquid is Metamei earthenware vessels but another earthenware vessel is not (even if it touched a Meis). What is the reason for the latter ruling?

Mishnah 7
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8)

(a)The Mishnah now discusses things that render Terumah Pasul. What does Pasul mean in this context?

(b)What is an example of something that renders Terumah Pasul?

(c)What does the Tana now say about it?

(d)What happens to Tahor hands that touched someone who did not wash his hands (see Tos. Yom-Tov)?

9)

(a)What is the one exception to the rule?

(b)So what happens to liquid that has been touched by a T'vul-Yom?

(c)What if the liquid is Terumah?

Mishnah 8
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10)

(a)What does R. Meir say about all seas, based on the Pasuk in Bereishis "u'le'Mikveh ha'Yamim Kara Yamim"?

(b)R. Yehudah qualifies R. Meir's ruling. What does he say?

(c)So why does the Torah refer to them as "Yamim" (in the plural)?

11)

(a)R. Yossi declares all seas Tahor be'Zochlin. What does that mean?

(b)On what grounds does he then add that they are not Metaher Zavim and Metzora'im?

(c)What does he say about using sea-water for Mei Chatas?

Mishnah 9
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12)

(a)The Mishnah disqualifies ha'Mayim ha'Mukim (unhealthy water) from Mei Chatas. What exactly is ha'Mayim ha'Mukim?

(b)What does the Tana say about Mayim ha'Mechazvim? What is ha'Mayim ha'Mechazvim?

(c)And what if it stops once every fifty years or so?

13)

(a)What does the Tana say about spring water that stops flowing as a result of ...

1. ... armies drinking from it?

2. ... draught?

(b)What does R. Yehudah say?

(c)Like whom is the Halachah?

Mishnah 10
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14)

(a)The Mishnah also disqualifies Mei Karmiyon and Mei Fuga from Mei Chatas. What are Mei Karmiyon and Mei Fuga?

(b)Why are they Pasul? What is Mei Bitzim?

(c)And what does the Tana say about Mei ha'Yarden and Mei Yarmuch?

15)

(a)The reason for the previous ruling is because Mei Ta'arovos is Pasul. What is Mei Ta'arovos?

(b)If two rivers of Kasher water meet, the Tana Kama declares the water eligible for Mei Chatas. On what grounds does R. Yehudah declare it Pasul?

(c)Like whom is the Halachah?

Mishnah 11
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16)

(a)What does the Mishnah say about water ...

1. ... from the Well of Achav and the Cave of Pamyas?

2. ... that has become murky with time?

(b)Where is the cave of Pamyas?

(c)On what condition does the Tana permit water (for Mei Chatas) that comes from a stream that has come from afar?

(d)What does R. Yehudah say?

(e)Like whom is the Halachah?

17)

(a)What do R. Yishmael and R. Akiva, respectively, say about a well containing Kasher Mei Chatas, into which fall broken shards of earthenware (causing it to become murky)?

(b)Like whom is the Halachah?

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