REVIEW QUESTIONS ON GEMARA AND RASHI
prepared by Rabbi Eliezer Chrysler
Kollel Iyun Hadaf, Jerusalem
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Shabbos 118
1)
(a) What is the difference between the Kupah and the Tamchuy? Who would
receive from the Kupah, and when was it distributed?
(b) How many meals did a poor man need to have, to be prevented from taking
from the Kupah?
(c) The author of the Beraisa cannot be Rebbi Chidka, who would have given
the number of meals as sixteen. Nor does the Beraisa appear to go like the
Rabbanan, because then, it should have said fifteen. Why fifteen?
(d) How does the Gemara establish the Beraisa like the Rabbanan?
2)
(a) How does the Gemara attempt to establish the Beraisa like Rebbi Chidka?
(b) How does it then reject that contention?
(c) In order to avoid establishing a Stam Mishnah not like Rebbi Chidka,
the Gemara presents the author of our Berasisa as Rebbi Akiva. Which Rebbi
Akiva? What does Rebbi Akiva say?
3)
(a) One gives a poor man who is just passing through, a loaf of bread worth
a Pundiyon - just enough for two meals. How much does one give him if he
remains over Shabbos?
(b) How could the author of this Mishnah (in Pei'ah) be Rebbi Chidka,
according to whom, the poor man should have received *four* meals?
(c) How can they allow him to leave empty-handed?
(d) A poor man who remains in town over night also receives 'Parnasas
Linah'. What is 'Parnasas Linah'?
4)
(a) Under what conditions may one wash dishes on Shabbos?
(b) What is the difference between washing dishes and washing drinking
cups?
(c) From which three punishments is someone who fulfills the Mitzvah of
eating three meals on Shabbos, spared?
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5)
(a) What do we learn from ...
1. ... the Pasuk in Yeshayah "Az Tis'anag Al Hashem ... ve'Ha'achalticha
Nachalas Ya'akov Avicha"? Why not Avraham or Yitzchak?
2. ... the Gezeirah Shavah of "ve'Ha'achalticha al *Bamasei* Aretz" - from
"ve'Atah al *Bamoseimo* Sidroch" (ve'Zos ha'Berachah)?
(b) What other reward is due to the person who fulfills the Mitzvah of Oneg
Shabbos?
(c) According to one opinion, one fulfills the Mitzvah of Oneg Shabbos
through eating a beet-dish, large fish and heads of garlic. What do others
say?
6)
(a) What do we learn from the Pasuk in Yeshayah "Ashrei Enosh Ya'aseh Zos
... Shomer Shabbos *me'Chalelo*"?
(b) How would history have taken a different turn, had Yisrael not broken
the Shabbos after Marah?
(c) What do we learn from the Pasuk in Yeshayah "Koh Amar Hashem la'Sarisim
Asher Yishmeru es Shabsosai ... va'Havi'osim el Har Kodshi ..."?
7)
(a) Is reciting Hallel every day permitted?
(b) Then what did Rebbi Yossi mean when he wished his lot to be with those
who completed Hallel every day?
(c) Why did Rebbi Yossi wish himself to die from a stomach ailment?
(d) Under which other circumstances did he wish to die?
8)
(a) What did Rebbi Yossi mean when he wished that he was ...
- ... from those who greeted the Shabbos in Teverya, and who brought it out in Tzipori?
- ... from the Moshivei Beis-ha'Medrash, and not from the Ma'amidei Beis-ha'Medrash?
- ... from the Gaba'i Tzedakah, and not from the Mechalkei Tzedakah?
(b) What did Rebbi Yossi say about being suspected of something of which
one is innocent?
9)
(a) What did he say about his five sons?
(b) What is wrong with his original statement, and how does the Gemara
amend it?
(c) How about Vardimus, who was also his son? Why was he called by that
name?
(d) What did Rebbi Yossi used to call ...
- ... his wife?
- ... his ox?
10)
(a) Rebbi Yossi never looked at his Milah. Why then, was he not called
Kadosh - like Rebbi would later be?
(b) What was Rebbi Yossi careful to do when he got undressed?
(c) Rebbi Yossi held his friends in such high esteem, that he would do
anything they asked of him - such as ... ?
(d) What did Rebbi Yossi mean when he said ...
- ... that he had never said something and turned back?
- ... that he observed the Mitzvah of Tefilin and of Tzitzis?
11)
(a) Rav Huna b'rei de'Rav Yehoshua never went four Amos without his head
covered (in those days this was not prohibited). Which Mitzvah did Rabah
fulfill with exceptional care, and how did Rav Yosef his son prove it?
(b) What would Abaye do when he saw a Talmid-Chacham who had completed a
Masechta? Would he do this for any Talmid-Chacham in town?
(c) What worthy 'act' would Rava (in his capacity as Dayan) regularly
perform before going to sleep?
(d) Why did Mar bar Rav Ashi disqualify himself from judging
Talmidei-Chachamim?
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