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1)

(a)The Mishnah now discusses a woman whose husband went overseas and whom 'they told' (Amru lah) that he had died (See Tos. Yom-Tov). What does 'Amru' mean?

(b)Is she permitted to then go and get married?

(c)What if she does get married (See Tiferes Yisrael) and her husband subsequently turns up?

(d)Why does she need a Get from the second man, seeing as her marriage to him is invalid?

(e)So what if they do?

2)

(a)The Tana lists a series of other punishments that she now has to suffer. Considering that she was permitted to marry, on what basis is she being punished?

(b)What does the Mishnah later say there where her husband subsequently turns up after she remarries via two witnesses?

(c)What is the Halachah there?

3)

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

1. ... Kesubah and Peiros?

2. ... Mezonos and Bela'os?

(b)What if she claimed any of these from either of them?

(c)What is the only item that she is entitled to claim?

(d)And what does he say about the status of a child that she bears from either man?

(e)What is the difference between the two children?

4)

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

1. ... the obligation to bury her when she dies?

2. ... objects that she finds and work that she produces, that would normally go to her husband?

3. ... annulling her Nedarim?

(b)What does she lose if she is a bas ...

1. ... Yisrael?

2. ... Levi?

3. ... Kohen?

(c)What is the Tana referring to when he says that neither of the sets of heirs inherit her Kesubah?

(d)In the event that either man dies, what does the Mishnah obligate his brother to do?

(e)What is the difference between the two Chalitzos?

5)

(a)According to Rebbi Yossi, she does receive her Kesubah. From whom does she receive it?

(b)What does Rebbi Elazar say about ...

1. ... the objects that she finds and the work that she produces?

2. ... the Nedarim that she makes?

(c)And what does Rebbi Shimon say about ...

1. ... a case where her first husband's brother performed Yibum or Chalitzah?

2. ... children that she bears from him?

(d)Like whom is the Halachah in all of these cases?

6)

(a)And what does the Tana mean when he finally says that if she married without permission she is permitted to return to him (her first husband)?

(b)What is the Halachah in this regard?

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7)

(a)What distinction does the Mishnah draw with regard to the previous case (where there are two witnesses) between whether Beis-Din expressly permitted her to remarry or whether she went ahead and did so on her own accord?

(b)Based on which principle is she Patur from a Korban in the former case?

(c)What is the Halachah in this regard?

(d)What does the Tana say about the current case, only where the woman did not marry the second man but 'sinned' with him (See Tos. Yom-Tov)?

(e)Why is that?

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8)

(a)If a man and his son travel overseas and witnesses come and testify that both of them died, what difference will it make as to who died first?

(b)What does the Tana say about a case where the witnesses testify that her husband died first, and where, after the woman remarried, it transpires (See Tos. Yom-Tov) that it was her son who actually died first?

(c)Why is that?

(d)And what does he say about the children from both wives?

(e)Based on which principle of his do we establish the Reisha of the Mishnah like Rebbi Akiva?

9)

(a)What will be the Din in the reverse case, where the witnesses initially testify that it was her son who died first and where she subsequently performed Yibum, and it then transpires that it was actually her husband who died first?

(b)How will the Din differ (from the previous two cases) if the witnesses testified that her husband died on a certain date, and it later transpired that he actually died after she had, and after she remarried?

(c)And what does the Mishnah say ...

1. ... with regard to returning to her husband if he turns up after she is merely betrothed to the second man?

2. ... about the same case, but where the second man gave her a Get?

(d)How does Rebbi Elazar ben Masya learn this from the Pasuk in Emor (in connection with Kohanim) "ve'Ishah Gerushah me'Iyshah Lo Yikachu"?

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10)

(a)Still on the same theme as the previous Mishnah, what does the Tana say in a case where the woman goes overseas, two witnesses (See Tos. Yom-Tov) testify that she died and after her husband marries her sister, she turns up?

(b)Why is that?

(c)How do we learn this from the word "osah" (in the Pasuk in Naso (in the Parshah of Sotah, "Veshachav Ish osah")?

11)

(a)And what does the Tana say about him marrying his sister-in-law's daughter (See Tos. Yom-Tov), and vice-versa?

(b)On what principle is this ruling based?

(c)May he marry her, in the event that his wife dies?

(d)What does the Tana Kama say about the babies, in a case where witnesses inform a man that his wife has died, and after he marries her sister, it transpires that she was alive at the time, but that she has since died?

12)

(a)The Mishnah now discusses a case where Reuven is married to Rachel, and Shimon, to her sister Le'ah. Rachel goes overseas with Shimon. And after witnesses testify that both of them have died, and he has married Leah, Rachel and Shimon turn up. What does the Tana say with regard to Rachel going back to Reuven?

(b)The Tana Kama and Rebbi Yossi now argue over where Reuven And were not married, only betrothed. What does the Tana Kama say?

13)

(a)On what grounds does Rebbi Yossi maintain that Le'ah is forbidden to return to Shimon?

(b)What does he mean when he says ...

1. ... 'Kol she'Posel al-Y'dei Acherim'? Why is that?

2. ... 'Posel al-Y'dei Atzmo'?

(c)Why does Le'ah require a Get from Reuven?

(d)Then why does the same not apply where he married her?

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14)

(a)The Mishnah now discusses a case where witnesses testified that Rachel, Reuven's wife, died and he married her paternal sister; witnesses then testified that she died too, and he married her maternal sister (who was not related to Rachel). What happened next?

(b)In the event that all five women are found to be still alive, which women does the Mishnah permit Reuven to retain and which does it not?

(c)Why are the third and the fifth women not forbidden because they are the sisters of the second and the fourth sisters respectively?

(d)And what does the Tana say about the Tzaros of ...

1. ... the first, third and fifth women?

2. ... the second and the fourth?

(e)What is the case?

15)

(a)What does the Tana mean when, finally, it talks about where Reuven had relations with the second wife after the first one died?

(b)What does he rule there?

(c)What does he say about the Tzaros of the first, third and fifth women?

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16)

(a)What does the Tana say about a nine-year old boy (i.e. a Katan between the age of nine and thirteen) who has relations with the Yevamah?

(b)What if he gave her a Get or performed Ma'amar with her (See Tos. Yom-Tov)?

(c)After amending the Mishnah, what distinction does the Tana draw between where the nine-year old performed Ma'amar with the Yevamah and where he had relations with her after an older brother performed Ma'amar?

(d)And what will be the Din if after he has relations with her, one of the other brothers ...

1. ... has relations with her too?

2. ... performs Ma'amar with her, doess Chalitzah or gives her a Get?

(e)To explain the current rulings, what status does the Mishnah ascribe to the Bi'ah of a nine-year old boy with a Yevamah?

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17)

(a)What does the Tana Kama say about one nine-year old who performs Bi'ah with his Yevamah after his nine-year old brother did the same?

(b)Why is that?

(c)On what grounds does Rebbi Shimon say that the second brother's Bi'ah does not forbid the Yevamah on the first one?

(d)Like whom is the Halachah?

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18)

(a)By the same token, what do the Tana Kama and Rebbi Shimon respectively, say about a nine-year old Yavam who performs Bi'ah with both the Yevamah and her Tzarah?

(b)And what does the Mishnah say in a case where a nine-year old boy ...

1. ... performs Yibum and dies?

2. ... marries and dies?

(c)Why the difference?

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19)

(a)In a case where a nine-year old boy has relations with a Yevamah, grows up, and, without being intimate with her again he marries another woman and dies, the first woman requires Chalitzah. Why not Yibum?

(b)What about the second woman?

(c)According to Rebbi Shimon, what does the brother do with ...

1. ... whichever one of the women he chooses?

2. ... the other one?

(d)On what basis does Rebbi Shimon ...

1. ... permit performing Yibum with one of them?

2. ... not permit Yibum with the second one?

20)

(a)To what does the Mishnah compare a twenty-year old man who has not grown two pubic hairs (with regard to the above Dinim)?

(b)Why is that?

(c)How will this Din change when he turns thirty-five, assuming that his physical situation has not changed?