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1 Name Page 1 of 5 (718) (973) fax tests@dafaweek.org לימוד מסכת מגילה מוקדש לז''נ ר' סנדר חיים זאב ב"ר יחיאל ישראל הירט ז"ל דף מגילה ב ' בחינה זו מוקדש לע''נ פיגא בת יהודה ליכטער ע''ה יארצייט ח' מרחשון Dedications Available (גמרא (if no indication, we ll assume Open גמרא or Phone # Place an X if Closed times :דף of the חזרה?בחינה 1 st ever Please or fax your completed בחינה using the contact info above by Monday, October 22, 2018 and we ll send it back marked,.בל'נ All scores 90 or above will receive a financial incentive in the form of a gift certificate. Any comments, suggestions or corrections would be appreciated. Copies of these tests and answer keys can be obtained by contacting us or by download from our website listed above. Initially, the questions only test will be posted. A couple of weeks later, we will post the question/answer sheet. Please type your answers or write clearly, using only black ink. Completed tests in Word or PDF are preferred. No JPEGs please..גמרא \ רש"י Unless otherwise indicated, all questions are based on מסכתא starts at the beginning of the בחינה This week s.דף ב: three lines from the bottom of,כמחמתן לטבריא and ends at.מגילה 1. Fill in the following chart on what date and day of the week we read the מוקפין חומה walled cities עיירות non-walled cities כפרים villages Date Day Date Day Date Day When י"ד אדר falls on 15 Tues 14 Mon 14 Mon Monday 15 Wed 14 Tues 13 Mon Tuesday 15 Thurs 14 Wed 12 Mon Wednesday 15 Fri 14 Thurs 14 Thurs Thursday 14 Fri 14 Fri 13 Thurs Friday שבת 15 Sun 12 Thurs 12 Thurs 15 Mon 14 Sun 11 Thurs Sunday According to our אנשי (the 11 th, 12 th and 13 th ) initially set by the מגילה 2. Were the extended days of reading the this? and how do we know חכמים or were they added by later כנסת הגדולה Answer: It was initially set by the כנסת הגדולה.אנשי We know this because a later בית דין cannot uproot a previous decree unless it is superior to the original בית דין both in wisdom and size (and we can assume that no future בית דין fit that bill). גירסא

2 Name Page 2 of 5 לקים את ימי הפרים האלה בזמניהם כאשר קים עליהם מרדכי היהודי ואסתר המלכה וכאשר קימו על נפשם ועל זרעם דברי הצמות וזעקתם )אסתר ט לא( 3. As per שמן בר אבא אמר רבי יוחנן,רב the word בזמניהם teaches us to add two days. A) Which two days are added? אדר Answer: The 11th and 12th of?ר''ח אדר to read from כפרים B) Why can t we add more than 2 days, for example, let s allow the Answer: דומיא דזמנים,זמניהם the extra letters of the word בזמניהם add as many days (2) as were included had it written זמנם (the 14 th and 15 th ).?אדר on the 13 th of מגילה can read the בני כפרים 4. A) How did they know that the Answer: Allowing the reading of the מגילה on the 13 th of אדר would be self-evident since that was the day when all the Jews gathered together to wage war against their enemies. כימים אשר נחו בהם היהודים מאויביהם והחדש אשר נהפך להם מיגון לשמחה ומאבל ליום טוב לעשות אותם ימי משתה ושמחה ומשלוח מנות איש לרעהו ומתנות לאביונים: )אסתר ט כב( רבי שמואל בר,(#3) פסוק learned from the previously quoted רבן שמן בר אבא אמר רבי יוחנן.5 What?דרשה to make this פסוק What did he find extra in the.פסוק learned from the above נחמני Answer: The פסוק could have said.ימים We learn from,כימים that the כפרים can read on the 11 th and 12 th. קימו וקבלו היהודים עליהם ועל זרעם ועל כל הנלוים עליהם ולא יעבר להיות עשים את שני הימים האלה ככתבם וכזמנם בכל שנה ושנה: )אסתר ט כז )?פסוק in this ולא יעבור learn from the words גמרא B) What does our.אדר to a later date, e.g. the 16 th or 17 th of מגילה Answer: We do not move the date of reading the Our גמרא quotes two versions of a statement of רבי יוחנן where he identifies רבי עקיבא as the תנא of.(אדר to the 11 th of מגילה (which extends the days of reading the משנה our - #1 רבה בר בר חנה אמר רבי יוחנן, זו דברי רבי עקיבא סתימתא דדריש זמן זמנם זמניהם. אבל חכמים אומרים אין קורין אותה אלא בזמנה. - #2 רבה בר בר חנה אמר רבי יוחנן, זו דברי רבי עקיבא סתימתא. אבל חכמים אמרו, בזמן הזה הואיל ומסתכלין בה אין קורין אותה אלא בזמנה. 6. What is the underlying reason for the חכמים saying אין קורין אותה אלה בזמנה according to A) רבי יוחנן version #1? Answer: The חכמים disagree with the דרשה of B) רבי יוחנן version #2?.בזמניהם Answer: They were worried that nowadays, when the שלוחים don t reach all of ישראל,כלל people would determine the beginning of פסח by counting the days from המגילה.קריאת Varying which day it can be read, can lead to confusion and cause people to miscalculate and end up eating חמץ on.פסח the last days of

3 Name Page 3 of 5 ברייתא quotes a גמרא Our אמר רבי יהודה, אימתי, בזמן שהשנים כתיקנן וישראל שרויין על אדמתן. אבל בזמן הזה הואיל ומסתכלין בה אין קורין אותה אלא בזמנה. 7. According to both versions of יוחנן,רבי how can we prove that רבי יהודה does not agree with the?רבי עקיבא opinion of Answer: רבי עקיבא )who was הזה (בזמן says that even nowadays the בני כפרים can move their reading of the מגילה to the 11 th. רבי יהודה only allows reading on the 14 th or 15 th. 8. Is the ברייתא a support to רבי יוחנן or a question on him A) according to version #1? If it is a question, what is the question? Answer: A question. According to the,ברייתא even the חכמים agree to the דרשה of בזמניהם and in רבי This contradicts version #1 of.קריאת המגילה to advance בני כפרים earlier times allowed the and therefore never allowed an בזמניהם of דרשה never agreed to the חכמים who says that the יוחנן.מגילה earlier reading of the B) according to version #2? If it is a question, what is the question? Answer: A support. אמר רבי יהודה, אימתי? מקום שנכנסין בשני ובחמישי, says: It.משנה qualifies our דף ה. on משנה.9 The אבל מקום שאין נכנסין לא בשני ולא בחמישי אין קורין אותה אלא בזמנה. We can infer from the later משנה that even nowadays רבי יהודה allows כפרים who come to the cities on Mondays and Thursdays to advance their מגילה reading. This contradicts רבי יהודה in the abovementioned ברייתא who says categorically that, nowadays, we are not allowed to move up the.קריאה How does רב אשי resolve this apparent contradiction?.רבי יוסי בר יהודה fact, was, in ברייתא Answer: The author of the על כן היהודים הפרזים הישבים בערי הפרזות עשים את יום ארבעה עשר לחדש אדר שמחה ומשתה ויום טוב ומשלוח מנות איש לרעהו: )אסתר ט יט( לקים עליהם להיות עשים את יום ארבעה עשר לחדש אדר ואת יום חמשה עשר בו בכל שנה ושנה: )אסתר ט כא( גמרא The.אדר on the 15 th of מגילה tries to find the source that walled cities read the גמרא Our פסוק י"ט on the 14 th and 15 th and פורים says that we celebrate פסוק כ"א initially suggests that since says that unwalled cities celebrate on the 14 th, we can deduce that walled cities read on the 15 th. The גמרא tries to refute this logic four times. 10. Refutation #1: פרזים בארבעה עשר, מוקפין כלל כלל לא,ואימא perhaps walled cities do not read the all. at מגילה פסוק כ"א entertain this possibility? If this were the case, then who is גמרא A) How can the referring to that reads on the 15 th? Answer: Only to the city of שושן who actually rested on the 15 th.

4 Name Page 4 of 5 את יום perhaps we learn from,ואימא פרזים בארביסר, מוקפין בארביסר ובחמיסר :#2 11.Refutation that walled cities must read on both the 14 th and the ארבעה עשר לחדש אדר ואת יום חמשה עשר בו 15 th of.אדר Why does the גמרא reject this refutation? Answer: We would say that if the פסוק said יום ארבעה עשר וחמשה עשר.את However, since the breaks up the two dates (we don t את the word,את יום ארבעה עשר... ואת יום חמשה עשר says פסוק read on both dates)..12 Refutation :#3 פרזים בארביסר, מוקפין אי בעו בארביסר אי בעו בחמיסר,ואימא perhaps walled cities can read on either the 14 th or the 15 th of.אדר Why does the גמרא reject this refutation? זמנו של זה לא that (אסתר ט לא (in בזמניהם Answer: As mentioned above, we learn from the word.זמנו של זה 13. Refutation #4: בתליסר,ואימא perhaps walled cities can read on the 13 th of.אדר Why does the refutation? reject this גמרא שושן does not hint as to when the walled cities read, and we know that מגילה Answer: Since the.שושן reads on the fifteenth, it makes sense to say that walled cities read on the same day as והימים האלה נזכרים ונעשים בכל דור ודור משפחה ומשפחה מדינה ומדינה ועיר ועיר וימי הפורים האלה לא יעברו מתוך היהודים וזכרם לא יסוף מזרעם: )אסתר ט כח( לקים עליהם and עשים את יום ארבעה עשר... )אסתר ט יט( (#10) which say פסוקים.14 The above two משתה ויום namely,,פורים mitzvos of עשייה refer to the להיות עשים את יום ארבעה עשר )אסתר ט כא( are commanded משתה ויום טוב Therefore, we should only be able to learn from them that.טוב פסוק on the 14 th in unwalled cities and in walled cities on the 15 th. How do we learn from this?מגילה can teach us these dates for the reading of the פסוקים that the abovementioned Answer: From the words נזכרים ונעשים we make a היקש between,זכירה reading the מגילה and.עשייה על כן היהודים הפרזים הישבים בערי הפרזות עשים את יום ארבעה עשר לחדש אדר שמחה ומשתה ויום טוב ומשלוח מנות איש לרעהו: )אסתר ט יט( כל אלה ערים בצרות חומה גבהה דלתים ובריח לבד מערי הפרזי הרבה מאד: )דברים ג ה( 15. How does our משנה learn from these פסוקים that walled and unwalled cities are determined by?יהושע בן נון whether they had walls at the time of Answer: From a גזירה שוה of פרזי.פרזי Just as,פרזי unwalled cities, mentioned in דברים refer to.יהושע בן נון refer to the time of מגילה in פרזי so too the,יהושע בן נון the time of him, According to.משנה disagrees with our רבי יהושע בן קרחה 16. A) what determines whether a city is considered walled? Answer: If it was walled from the time of?משנה B) why does he disagree with our.גזרה שוה Answer: He does not hold of the אחשורוש

5 Name Page 5 of 5...מדינה ומדינה ועיר ועיר... )אסתר ט כח )?פסוק learn from the double words in the above quoted רבי יהושע בן לוי does דרשה 17. A) What Answer: That any place close to a walled city (within a (מיל or that can see it is considered like a walled city.?דרשה subscribe to this משנה does our,גמרא B) According to the conclusion of the Answer: Yes דף from this week s סוגיות or headlines of the הערות questions/answers, Please feel free to add any Let s plan to be קונה the מסכת focusing on a simple חזרה of just the שקלא וטריא inside: Were you able to make a few minutes every day for an immediate חזרה of the portion just learned??דף of the חזרה or Sunday to do a שבת Were you able to make time on?דפים of the last 3 חזרה or Sunday to do a שבת Were you able to make time on

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