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1)

(a)How does one declare a Temurah?

(b)Can a woman do so?

(c)What is the Tana coming to include when he says that everyone is eligible to declare a Temurah?

(d)Is one permitted to declare a Temurah?

(e)How do we know that?

2)

(a)What is the punishment for being Meimir?

(b)And what is the status of the original animal?

(c)Why is someone who is Meimir not Patur from Malkos due to the principle 'La'av she'Ein bo Ma'aseh, Ein Lokin alav'?

(d)Besides someone who swears, what is the other exception to the rule?

3)

(a)Bearing in mind the Pasuk in Bechukosai "ve'Hayah hu u'Semuraso Yih'yeh Kodesh", why ought a Meimir to be Patur from Malkos?

(b)Then why is he Chayav?

(c)Besides Shutfin (partners) who else is not subject to the Asei (even though they are subject to the La'av)?

4)

(a)What does the Mishnah say about Kohanim and Yisre'elim?

(b)Why can a Kohen not be Meimir the Chatas and Asham that a Yisrael gives him to offer up on his behalf?

5)

(a)What did Rebbi Yochanan ben Nuri ask on the Tana who listed B'chor together with Chatas and Asham?

(b)What did Rebbi Akiva answer him?

(c)In reply to Rebbi Yochanan ben Nuri's query that, unlike Chatas and Asham, the Kohan acquires the B'chor whilst it is still alive, Rebbi Akiva quoted the Pasuk (that we cited earlier) "ve'Hayah hu u'Semuraso Yih'yeh Kodesh". What did he prove from there?

(d)What if the original owner of the B'chor declares a Temurah on it?

(e)Like whom is the Halachah?

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6)

(a)Can one declare a Temurah on to ..

1. ... a sheep from a bull or vice-versa, or a goat from a sheep or vice-versa?

2. ... a female from a male or vice-versa?

3. ... a Ba'al-Mum from a Tamim or vice-versa?

(b)In connection with the latter ruling, what do we learn from the Pasuk in Bechukosai "Lo Yachlifenu ve'Lo Yamir oso ...

1. ... Tov be'Ra"?

2. ... O Ra be'Tov"?

(c)And what does the Tana learn from the word "be'Tov" (when it could have written "bo"?

7)

(a)What does the Tana Kama say about a case where someone declares ...

1. ... one animal Hekdesh against his two Hekdesh animals?

2. ... two animals Hekdesh against his one Hekdesh animal?

(b)What does Rebbi Shimon say, based on the Pasuk "ve'Hayah hu u'Semuraso Yih'yeh Kodesh"?

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8)

(a)What does the Tana Kama say about declaring a limb of a Chulin animal ...

1. ... a Temurah against the fetus of a Hekdesh animal or vice-versa?

2. ... or its fetus against an animal of Hekdesh or vice-versa?

9)

(a)On what grounds does Rebbi Yossi hold that if one is Meimir a limb of a Chulin animal, the Temurah takes effect?

(b)What does he learn from the Pasuk in Bechukosai "Kol asher Yiten mimenu la'Hashem Yih'yeh Kodesh la'Hashem"?

(c)Then why does he agree with the Tana Kama in the reverse case (where he declares a Chulin animal Hekdesh against the limb of a Hekdesh one?

(d)Like whom is the Halachah?

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10)

(a)How much Chulin must there be to be Mevatel a Sa'ah T'rumah that falls into it?

(b)The Mishnah says that Meduma is only Medame'a proportionately. What is 'Meduma'?

(c)What does the Tana now mean?

(d)In the same vein, what does the Mishnah mean when it says that a dough that has become Mechumetz is only Mechametz according to the Cheshbon?

11)

(a)The third case in the Mishnah discusses Mayim She'uvim (drawn water) that falls into a Mikvah containing Kasher water. How much drawn water must fall into a Mikvah containing less than forty Sa'ah to render it Pasul?

(b)It will not render it Pasul however, if it falls into it by means of Hamshachah. What is Hamshachah?

(c)The Mishnah now rules that Mayim She'uvim only renders the Mikvah Pasul according to the Cheshbon. How much Kasher water must the Mikvah contain for the Mayim She'uvim not to invalidate it, even via 'Hamshachah'?

12)

(a)The Gemara however, explains 'according to the Cheshbon' with reference to the number of vessels that are used to pour the three Lugin of Mayim She'uvim into the Mikvah. From how many vessels may it fall into the Mikvah for the Mikvah to become Pasul?

(b)The author of this leniency is Rebbi Yosef ben Choni. What do the Chachamim say?

(c)Like whom is the Halachah?

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13)

(a)In preparing the ashes of the Parah Adumah, at which point do they become 'Mei Chatas'?

(b)What must one therefore pour first into the K'li?

(c)What if one places the ashes before the water?

(d)Then why does the Torah write in Chukas "ve'Nasan alav Mayim Chayim ... "?

(e)Why, in any event, can the Torah not mean that one pours the water on to the ashes?

14)

(a)What is a 'Beis ha'Peras'?

(b)What area did Chazal decree Tum'ah?

(c)What does the Tana mean when he says ...

1. ... that one Beis ha'Peras does not make another Beis ha'Peras?

2. ... there is no T'rumah after T'rumah?

15)

(a)What is the reason for the previous ruling?

(b)The author of this Mishnah is Rebbi Akiva. What do the Chachamim say?

(c)Like whom is the Halachah?

16)

(a)Based on the Pasuk "u'Temuraso Yih'yeh Kodesh", what does the Tana say about one Temurah making another Temurah?

(b)And what does he learn from the word "Hu" in the Pasuk "ve'Hayah Hu u'Temuraso Yih'yeh Kodesh"?

(c)What does Rebbi Yehudah learn from the word "Yih'yeh" in the same Pasuk?

17)

(a)The Chachamim reiterate that Hekdesh can make a Temurah, but not the baby of Hekdesh and not a Temurah. What do they learn from the word "Yih'yeh"?

(b)What is the case of Shogeg?

(c)Why might we have thought otherwise?

(d)Like whom is the Halachah?

(e)What do the Chachamim say about making a number of Temuros against a Temurah ...

1. ... in one go?

2. ... one after the other?

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18)

(a)What does the Mishnah learn from the words "Beheimah bi'Veheimah" in the Pasuk "ve'Im Hamer Yamir Beheimah bi'Veheimah"?

(b)What dual Halachah does the Tana learn from the Pasuk "Lo Yamir oso" (in the singular)?

(c)And what does he learn from the fact that the Torah writes "Korban" in connection with Temurah?

19)

(a)Rebbi Shimon learns some of the above rulings from Ma'aser Beheimah. On what grounds does he learn the Dinim of Temurah from Ma'aser Beheimah?

(b)What does he learn regarding Ma'aser Beheimah, from the word "lach" (in the singular [in the Pasuk in Korach "asher Yih'yeh lach)"?

(c)What does he also learn from there in connection with Temurah regarding Kodshei Bedek ha'Bayis?

(d)How does he reconcile this with the Pasuk in Matos "va'Nakrev es Korban Hash-m Ish asher Matza K'li Zahav", where we see that Kodshei Bedek ha'Bayis are called Korban?

(e)How do the Chachamim reconcile their statement earlier (that Bedek ha'Bayis is not called 'Kodshim') with that Pasuk?

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