REVIEW QUESTIONS ON GEMARA AND RASHI
prepared by Rabbi Eliezer Chrysler
Kollel Iyun Hadaf, Jerusalem
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Yevamos 83
1)
(a) We have just seen that Rebbi Yossi and Rebbi Shimon in our Mishnah
consider an Androginus to be a Vaday Zachar. What does Rebbi Yossi himself
say in a Beraisa, that contradicts this?
(b) On what grounds did Rav accept the opinion of Rebbi Yossi in the Beraisa
in preference to what he said in the Mishnah?
(c) And what does Shmuel say?
(d) How do we reconcile Shmuel here with Shmuel himself who rules like the
individual opinion of Rebbi Yehudah ben Beseirah (on 41a), like Rav does in
this case?
2)
(a) Amri Bei Rav Amar Rav rules like Rebbi Yossi in the cases of
'Androginus' and 'Harkavah'. Who is Amri Bei Rav?
(b) On what basis do we presume that Amri Bei Rav Amar Rav rules like Rebbi
Yossi in our Mishnah (unlike Rav above, who ruled like Rebbi Yossi in the
Beraisa)?
(c) In the case of Harkavah, the Tana Kama forbids planting, converting the
branch into a new tree or grafting, within thirty days of Rosh Hashanah of
the Sh'mitah-year. What is the opinion of ...
- ... Rebbi Yehudah?
- ... Rebbi Yossi and Rebbi Shimon?
(d) What qualification does Rav Nachman Amar Rabah bar Avuhah add to all
three opinions?
3)
(a) Shmuel rules like Rebbi Yossi regarding 'Koshi' and 'Kidush'. What is
'Koshi'? In which basic case of Tum'ah will it apply and in which basic case
will it not?
(b) What does ...
- ... Rebbi Meir mean when he says that Koshi is forty or fifty days?
- ... Rebbi Yehudah mean when he says 'Dayah Chodshah'?
(c) What do Rebbi Yossi and Rebbi Shimon say?
4)
(a) What does Rebbi Meir say regarding someone who covers his neighbor's
produce with his own vines?
(b) Is he obligated to pay for the loss?
(c) What do Rebbi Yossi and Rebbi Shimon say?
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5)
(a) Does Shmuel agree with Amri Bei Rav Amar Rav regarding ...
- ... Androginus?
- ... Harkavah?
(b) We remain with a 'Teiku' as to whether Rav agrees with Shmuel regarding
Koshi. With regard to Kidush, Rav Huna quotes Rav as saying 'Ein Halachah
ke'Rebbi Yossi' (not like Shmuel); whereas Rav Ada Amar Rav quotes him as
saying 'Halachah ke'Rebbi Yossi'. On what grounds do we accept Rav Huna's
opinion?
(c) How do we reconcile this with the Gemara in Sanhedrin, which declares
Amri Bei Rav to be Rav Hamnuna?
6)
(a) How will Rebbi Yehudah, who considers a Tumtum who tears open and
discovers that he is a male to be a Saris, explain the Tumtum of Biri, whose
wife bore him seven sons after that happened to him?
(b) How do we amend Rebbi Yossi b'Rebbi Yehudah, who forbids a Tumtum to
perform Chalitzah because 'Shema Yikra ve'Nimtza Saris'?
(c) In which point do Rebbi Yehudah and his son Rebbi Yossi argue?
(d) One difference between them is whether, if he *did* perform Chalitzah,
he invalidates the other brothers or not. What is the other difference?
7)
(a) What does Rav mean when he says that an Androginus is Chayav S'kilah
from two places?
(b) How will Rav justify this in face of a Beraisa, where Rebbi Eliezer
explicitly says that he is only Chayav be'Makom Zachrus, but not be'Makom
Nakvus?
(c) bar Hamduri explained to Rava that Rebbi Sima'i's source was the Pasuk
in Acharei-Mos "ve'es Zachar Lo Sishkav Mishkevei Ishah". How did he
derive it from there?
(d) How do the Rabbanan (Rebbi Eliezer) counter that D'rashah from the same
Pasuk?
8)
(a) What do the Rabbanan learn from ...
- ... "*ve'es* Zachar ... "?
- ... "Mishkevei *Ishah*?
(b) In which regard does Rebbi Eliezer agree that an Androginus does not
have the Din of a Vaday Zachar?
(c) What is the reason for that?
9)
(a) 'ha'Nirva, ve'ha'Muktzah, ve'ha'Ne'evad, ve'ha'Esnan, u'M'chir,
ve'Tumtum ve'Androginus Metam'in Begadim a'Beis ha'B'li'ah'. What is this
Beraisa talking about?
(b) What does 'Metam'in a'Beis ha'B'li'ah' mean?
(c) On what grounds does Rebbi Eliezer differentiate between Kodshim of
animals and Kodshim of birds with regard to Tumtum and Androginus? Why are
the latter Kodesh, and the former, not?
(d) What is the difference between an animal that is a Muktzah and one that
is a Ne'evad?
10)
(a) Rav Nachman bar Yitzchak brings a further proof (for our interpretation
of Rebbi Eliezer) from a Mishnah in Temurah. What, according to Rebbi
Eliezer, do Kil'ayim, Tereifah, Yotzei Dofen, Tumtum and Androginus have in
common?
(b) How does Shmuel explain ...
- ... 'Lo Kedoshin'?
- ... 've'Lo Makdishin'?
(c) Seeing as the above Pesulim cannot become Kadosh, what is the point in
telling us that they cannot make a Temurah? Is this not obvious?
(d) Which category of P'sul would become Kadosh if it was declared a Temurah
even though it would not, if it was declared Kadosh initially?
11)
(a) What happens to any of the above if one *does* declare them Hekdesh?
Which category of Hekdesh will take effect?
(b) What would happen if someone declared Hekdesh an animal that was a
Rovei'a or a Nirva, a Muktzah or a Ne'evad, an Esnan or a M'chir Kelev?
(c) And what happens to Tereifah Kodshim?
12)
(a) When Rebbi went to learn Torah by Rebbi Elazar ben Shamua, he describes
how Rebbi Elazar's Talmidim surrounded him like a rooster of Beis Buki'ah,
and only permitted him to learn one thing. What did he mean by a rooster
of Beis Buki'ah?
(b) What is the one thing that they permitted him to learn?
***** Hadran Alach, ha'Areil *****
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