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1 לימוד מסכת מוקדש ל Name or Phone # (needed on 1 st page only) Page 1 of 7?בחינה times 1 st :דף of the חזרה (גמרא (if no indication, we ll assume Open גמרא Place an X if Closed.בל'נ marked, using the contact info above by Monday, Jan. 1st, 2018 and we ll send it back בחינה Please or fax your completed 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 few weeks later, we will post the question/answer sheet. Please write clearly and use only black ink..גמרא \ רש"י Unless otherwise indicated, all questions are based on?פסול is שטרות, which of the following רש"י,משנה 1. Based on our of the 3 rd תמוז was written in the month of שטר and the מלך דוד in the 3 rd year of כסליו The loan occurred in.א.מלך דוד year of.מלך דוד of the 3 rd year of כסליו was written in שטר And.מלך דוד of the third year of תמוז Loan occurred in.ב ויעל אהרן הכהן אל הר ההר על פי ה' וימת שם. ויהי בארבעים שנה בעשתי עשר חדש באחד לחדש.2 When the gemara brings פסוקים these 2 it is trying to prove:. תשרי cannot be counted from יציאת מצרים.א.תשרי from מלכי אומות העולם We count the reign of.ב? למסקנא ניסן from מלכי ישראל 3. How do we know that we count the reign of ויהי בשמונים שנה וארבע מאות שנה לצאת בנ"י.א ויחל לבנות בחדש השני בשני בשנת ארבע למלכותו.ב?כורש also called דריוש 4. Why was 5. One of the ways that דריוש soured is that he had the בית המקדש constructed in a manner that it could be destroyed if the Jews rebelled. שלמה, however, used the same materials (marble and wood).?דריוש as opposed to שלמה What are 3 differences in the construction of

2 לימוד מסכת מוקדש ל Name or Phone # (needed on 1 st page only) Page 2 of 7 מאן דאמר Please match each.בל תאחר lists 5 views as to when someone is liable for the transgression of ברייתא 6. A :שיטה with his שיטה מאן דאמר 1 רגל תנא קמא 2 רגלים רבי שמעון 3 רגלים רבי מאיר רבי אלעזר ברבי שמעון 3 years in a row פסח רבי אליעזר בן יעקב חג הסוכות first חג המצות,3 with רגלים כסדרם?סוכות and not from פסח Why do we learn it from.קרבן חגיגה for the תשלומין כל ז' has שבועות 7. We learn that שמיני רגל בפני עצמו הוא.א תפישת מרובה לא תפישת, תפישת מועט תפשת.ב mentioned explicitly שלמים We also have.שלמים refers to בל תאחר of ברייתא in the פסח says that רב ששת 8. mentioned in the.ברייתא This is because the ברייתא mentions שלמים that are brought on account of a פסח and a :(שלמים that is brought in its own right (as a שלמים סלקא דעתך אמינא הואיל ומחמת פסח קאתו כפסח דמו. קמ"ל? כפסח דמו What does the gemara mean by.ערב פסח must be brought on קרבן The.א.רגל on the first בל תאחר for חייב One is.ב והיה בך חטא - ולא בקרבנך חטא.9 כי תדר נדר לה' אלוקיך... of פסוק We learn this from the בכור שעברה שנתו כפסולי המוקדשים הוי פסול from learn it out אחרים ואכלת לפני ה' אלוקיך מעשר דגנך... of פסוק Therefore, we have the The פסוק compares בכור to.מעשר Just like מעשר is not פסול from one year to the next, so too בכור is not פסול from?אחרים if we can learn it from והיה בך חטא one year to the next. Why do we need the teaching of 10. The transgression of בל תאחר is learned from 2 places: מוצא שפתיך תשמור ועשית.א לא תאחר לשלמו.ב?פסוקים Why do we need both

3 לימוד מסכת מוקדש ל Name or Phone # (needed on 1 st page only) Page 3 of 7 אחד בכור ואחד כל הקדשים, כיון שעברו עליהם שנה בלא רגלים, רגלים בלא שנה, עובר בבל תאחר..11?שנה בלא רגלים What are 2 cases of 12. True or False:.חומש in פסוק from a בא' בניסן ר"ה למלכים we do not learn that למסקנא?משנה in our ר"ה לחודשים learn תנא 13. Why doesn t our 14. True or False: The lease of someone who rents a house לבשו כרים הצאן ועמקים יעטפו בר וכו.15 This possuk can be better understood according to: Rabbi Meir.א Rabbi Elazar ben R Shimon.ב.ניסן, is over on the first day of ט"ו אדר on לשנה זו 16. Our משנה says בתשרי ר"ה ליובלות.א' The gemara asks: יובל begins on יוה"כ with שופר תקיעת is our משנה according to רבנן.א רבי יוחנן בן ברוקא.ב. Where does each one learn the halacha מוסיפים מחול על הקודש weigh in on the halacha of ר' עקיבא And ר' ישמעאל 17. from? 18. True or False? שמיטת קרקעות is not dependent on יובל in עבודת קרקע agree that the transgression of ר' יוסי and ר' יהודה returning ancestral lands. 19. If one plants a tree on אלול תשע"ז,ו' when can he eat the fruit at home? ר"ה תשפ"א.א ט"ו בשבט תשפ"א.ב ר"ה תשפ"ב.ג ט"ו בשבט תשפ"ב.ד is: בן בקר.20 1 years old.א 2 years old.ב 3 years old.ג

4 לימוד מסכת מוקדש ל Name or Phone # (needed on 1 st page only) Page 4 of 7 רבי according to שמיטה can one plant a tree without having to uproot it in שמיטה of ר"ה 21. How many days before.יהודה 3.א 30.ב 14.ג 33.ד 44.ה 22. What month was בריאת העולם according to the both opinions? 23. How do we know that יצחק was born on?פסח The angels gave the news on סוכות but this still only leaves 6 months, in addition, we must subtract the ימי נידה of.שרה What 2 factors allow us to have an acceptable pregnancy term? 24. We know that בטלו עבודה מאבותינו from a גזירה שוה of שופר.א סבלות.ב שנת עשרים שנת עשרים.ג ירקות refers to, why do we need to list both ירקות. Since לירקות ולמעשרות states ברייתא 25. A?מעשרות and cycle? שמיטה is given in which years of the מעשר שני 26.?רבי יהודה is given according to מעשר עני in the years that בטל is not מעשר ראשון 27. How do we know that ובא הלוי.א הקישו לנחלה.ב 28. A ברייתא says that rice, millet, poppy that took root before Rosh Hashanah have their מעשר taken with the previous?מעשר pick such an arbitrary point in their growth for רבנן year, and if not, with the coming year. Why did the פול המצרי on מעשר 29. What advice did R Shimon Shezuri give for taking with part of the crop taking root שזרעו לזרע before ר"ה and part taking root after?

5 לימוד מסכת מוקדש ל Name or Phone # (needed on 1 st page only) Page 5 of We need all three halachic statements of Shmuel because: If we would just say the halacha of R Shimon Shezuri we would say that Shmuel holds.א to we would think that this also applies,הכל הולך אחר גמר פרי If we would just say that.ב and. 31. When Rabbi Akiva picked an Esrog on the first day of Shevat and separated 2,מעשרות the gemara initially thought he was doing it according the מחלוקת of and.?אתרוג concerning בית הלל and בית שמאי 32. How could Rabbi Akiva follow both stringencies, those of 33. Why does the gemara discuss 3 rd and 4 th year when talking about אתרוג and separating חדש from,ישן whereas by year? the gemara refers to 2 nd and 3 rd ירק :( לקיטה and חנטה 34. Fill in the following chart for Esrog (options are שביעית מעשר אבטולמוס רבותינו נמנו באושא 35. On Pesach the world is judged regarding the.תבואה On Pesach,תשע"ז what 2 crops (time related, not species) were judged? 36. Why does the Torah command us to bring שתי הלחם on Shavuos??ר"ה standing and sitting ones, on,תקיעות 37. Why do we have 2 sets of?ובנבלתם לא תגעו learn from ר' יצחק.38 What does

6 לימוד מסכת מוקדש ל Name or Phone # (needed on 1 st page only) Page 6 of True or False? On the יום הדין of בית שמאי - תחיית המתים and בית הלל both agree that בינונים and have פושעי ישראל בגופן initially.גיהנום go to 40. If Jews are unworthy on Rosh Hashanah and Hashem decrees little rain and then they do,תשובה what are 2 ways that Hashem changes the decree? 41. When is a גזר דין of a ציבור not reversible??טבת and תמוז sent out on בית דין of שלוחים 42. Why weren t the.בטלה מגילת תענית 43. Rav and R Chaninah both hold that.ר"י וריב"ל סברו דלא בטלה Rav Kahane asks about the תענית that they decreed on Channukah and Rabbi Yehoshua and Rabbi Eliezer s reaction to it. To whom did Rav Kahane direct his question?.שטרות decreed a Yom Tov on the third day of Tishrey since the name of Hashem is no longer mentioned on רבנן 44. The They did this so that it would be prohibited to fast on the 2 nd day of Tishrey. Wouldn t that already be prohibited since it is the day after?ר"ח Why or why not? למסקנא: הלכתא בטלה מגילת תענית ולא בטלה..45 Explain מקדש ע"פ 46. How did the gemara establish that the months of Tishrey and Nissan were not desecrated due to being?עידי ראיה?(עולא (as per אלול מעובר gain from having an בני בבל 47. What 2 things do 48. the new moon is not visible for hours,מולד after the,א"י In.א the old moon is not visible for hours,מולד after the,בבל In.ב

7 לימוד מסכת מוקדש ל Name or Phone # (needed on 1 st page only) Page 7 of For which months are the מחלל שבת, שלוחי בית דין in order to inform the Jews all over the world? 50. True or False?.פסול לעדות מדרבנן Dice players, lenders for interest, and slaves are Please provide feedback for this bechina and the program in general. Utilize our Shoel U meishiv online at

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