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1a) [line 1] KERONOS SHEL TZIPORI - (a) in the marketplace of Tzipori on market day (lit. at the time that the *Keronos* (wagons) were passing) (RASHI Megilah 5b); (b) in the cold (*Karim*) wellspring of Tzipori (ARUCH)
b) [line 27] TZIPORI - a city in the lower Galilee, approximately midway between Tiberias and Haifa

2) [line 7] SHESUKI
A Shesuki is a person (male or female) whose paternal lineage is in doubt, and the possibility exists that he is a Mamzer. The term is derived from the word Shesikah, silence, since when he calls for his father, his mother tells him to be silent.

3) [line 10] ROV SI'AH - the majority of the caravan or band of travelers
4) [line 10] KELAPEI LAYA?! - Towards which direction is it turning? (the opposite would be reasonable!)

5) [line 10] NAIDEI - are moving

6) [line 16, 18] KOL D'PARISH, ME'RUBA PARISH / KOL KAVU'A, K'MECHETZEH AL MECHETZEH DAMI (ROV V'KAVU'A)
(a) KOL D'PARISH, ME'RUBA PARISH
When there is a doubt as to the source of a certain item, i.e. from where it comes or to which group it belongs, the Torah informs us that we may resolve the doubt according to certain set rules. One of these rules is "Haloch Achar ha'Rov" (assume that an item comes from the largest group). For instance, if a piece of meat is found lying on the street (or in the hands of a Nochri in the street), and most of the meat in the town is Kosher, it can be safely assumed that the meat is kosher. The source for Haloch Achar ha'Rov is the verse, "Acharei Rabim l'Hatos" (Shemos 23:2, Chulin 11a).
(b) KOL KAVU'A, K'MECHETZEH AL MECHETZEH DAMI
If, however, the nature of the item is in doubt while it is still "in its place," or Kavu'a, (i.e. it was not separated from the other items of its kind), we do not follow the Rov. Instead, we remain in doubt as to the status of the item. For instance, if a person buys meat and then forgets whether he bought it at a Kosher or non-Kosher store. We cannot assume that the meat is Kosher just because most of the stores in the town are Kosher, since we are questioning its status while it is still in its proper place (= the store) before it was separated from the other pieces of meat in the store.

7) [line 37] BI'RESHUS HA'YACHID SEFEIKO TAMEI, BI'RESHUSH HA'RABIM SEFEIKO TAHOR
(a) When there is a doubt as to whether an object is Tahor or Tamei, if the object is found in Reshus ha'Rabim the object is Tahor. If it is found in a private, concealed place, it is judged to be Tamei.
(b) This is learned from the case of the Sotah woman (Bamidbar 5; see Background to Kesuvos 9:3). In the case of a Sotah, where only two people were about at the time that there arose a question as to her status, she is judged Teme'ah, culpable. Similarly, whenever there are only two people present (i.e. Reshus ha'Yachid l'Tum'ah), if a doubt arises regarding the status of an object, it is judged to be Tamei. Whenever more than two people frequent a certain area it is a Reshus ha'Rabim l'Tum'ah. If a doubt arises regarding the status of an object, it is judged to be Tahor.

8) [line 38] "...V'ARAV LO V'KAM ALAV..." - "[But if any man hates his neighbor,] and lies in wait for him, and rises up against him, [and strikes him mortally so that he dies, and flees to one of these cities;]" (Devarim 19:11)

9) [line 40] PRAT L'ZOREK EVEN L'GEV - to exclude the case of throwing a stone into [a group of people]

10) [line 47] HORA'AS SHA'AH HAYESAH - it was a special dispensation, not to be taken as a precedent

11) [line 1] MUSHLACH - abandoned
12) [line 4] L'HACHAYOSO - to supply him with food and provisions
13) [line 5] L'FAKE'ACH ALAV ES HA'GAL - to remove the heap of stones that collapsed upon him

14) [line 5] ISHTEMITSEI - it escaped him (he forgot)

15) [line 33] B'HINUMA - (a) with a dome-shaped canopy of myrtle branches above her (RASHI to 17b); (b) wearing a tiara on which is a design of the city Yerushalayim; (c) in the manner that Besulos appear at their weddings, each place according to its custom (RABEINU CHANANEL); (d) wearing a thin scarf that covered her face

16) [line 33] ROSHAH PARU'A - with her hair unbraided and lying on her shoulders
17) [line 35] CHILUK KELAYOS - the practice of handing out of roasted grain

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