Name Page 1 of 5 ***Place an X if Closed גמרא (if no indication, we ll assume Open חרה (גמרא of the :דף times Please email or fax your completed בחינה using the contact info above by Sunday, December 4, 2016 and we ll send it back marked, 'נ.בל 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..גמרא \רש "י Please write clearly and use only black ink. Unless otherwise indicated, all questions are based on דף. This week s bechina begins with the fifth wide line at the top of משמחת יום טוב,דף : and concludes with the two dots at the bottom of 1. True or false.טמא he becomes עוף טהור of an נבילה A) If one touched the Answer: False.טמא he becomes עוף טהור of an נבילה B) If one carried the Answer: False.טמא he becomes עוף טהור of an בשר נבילה C) If one ate the Answer: True?טומאת נבילה through this טמא 2. Other than the person himself, what else becomes Answer: The clothes that the person was wearing while eating it. גופא, השוחט את התרנגולת ומצא בא ביצים גמורות, מותרות לאכלן בחלב. רבי יעקב אומר אם היו מעורות בגידין אסורות. האוכל מנבלת עוף טהור, מן השלל של ביצים מן העצמות ומן הגידין which says ברייתא quotes a גמרא.3 Our ומן הבשר שנתלש מן החי, טהור. מן האשכול של ביצים מן הקורקבן ובני מעיין או שהמחה את החלב וגמעו, טמא. A) According to the first reading of the,גמרא which case in this ברייתא did רב יוסף equate to?מעורות בגידין s רבי יעקב השלל של ביצים Answer:?ברייתא establish as the author of this רב יוסף B) Thus, who did.רבי יעקב who argues with תנא קמא Answer: The
Name Page 2 of 5?רב יוסף argue with אביי on what basis did,גמרא 4. A) According to this reading of the Answer: Perhaps רבי יעקב inherently agrees that,מדאורייתא eggs which are בגידין,מעורות are not considered as part of the meat of the chicken. They are forbidden to be eaten together with milk.בשר since they are similar to the chicken s מדרבנן B) What did the גמרא ask on s 'אביי objection? Answer: Just like eggs which are מעורות בגידין are forbidden to be eaten with milk,דרבנן so too,.טומאת נבילה מדרבנן they should cause?אביי answer for גמרא C) How did the טומאה for they did not want to increase גור טומאה מדרבנן are slow to be חכמים Answer: The.טהרות thereby causing a loss of רב did ברייתא which case in this,איכא דאמרי the,גמרא 5. A) According to the second reading of the?מעורות בגידין s רבי יעקב equate to יוסף מן האשכול של ביצים Answer:?ברייתא establish as the author of this רב יוסף B) Thus, who did.רבי יעקב Answer:?רב יוסף argue with אביי on what basis did,גמרא 6. A) According to this reading of the?מעורות בגידין is referring to eggs which are מן האשכול של ביצים Answer: Why do you assume that Perhaps it is referring to the גופיה,אשכול the meat of the שדרה to which the eggs are attached. B) According to s אביי understanding of the,ברייתא what חידוש do we learn from the s ברייתא?אשכול של ביצים case of Answer: That even though there are people who wouldn t eat the של ביצים,אשכול it is nevertheless.טומאת נבילה regarding בשר considered תנא רבנן, כל שתשמישו ביום נולד ביום. כל שתשמישו בלילה נולד בלילה. כל שתשמישו בין ביום ובין בלילה נולד בין ביום ובין בלילה.?כל שתשמישו ביום נולד ביום referring to when it says ברייתא 7. A) What is the Answer: A chicken
Name Page 3 of 5 7B) What practical difference in הלכה do we infer from this? Answer: That even if one checked a chicken nest on the eve of יום טוב and did not see an egg in it, and then later discovered an egg in it before עלות השחר the next day, we can assume that egg was not laid on the night of טוב,יום but rather the previous day, and thus, it would be permissible to eat on טוב.יום Either we didn t check the nest properly, or perhaps most of the egg emerged and then it went back into the chicken (which, according to רבי יוחנן is considered as an egg that was laid.(יום טוב before 8. Which of the following statements is true? a) A fertilized egg will not be laid at night. b) A non-fertilized egg, מארעא,דספנא may be laid at night. c) If a rooster is in the vicinity of a chicken, we can assume that an egg laid by that chicken is fertilized. Answer: a, b and c are all true. 9. Based on question 8, how does the גמרא qualify the הלכה that was inferred from the abovementioned ברייתא (question #7)? Answer: We can only assume the egg was laid before יום טוב in a case where there was a rooster in the vicinity. עלות השחר and then, the next morning before יום טוב 10. If one did not check a chicken nest before found an egg in it, assuming that the egg was not fertilized, a) we are in doubt as to whether the egg was laid before יום טוב or afterwards and therefore it is a ספק דרבנן לקולא and the egg is permitted. b) we are in doubt as to whether the egg was laid before יום טוב or afterwards and therefore,.יום טוב the egg is forbidden until after,דבר שיש בו מתירין since it is a c) although most non-fertilized eggs are laid during the day, we nevertheless do not rely on.דבר שיש בו מתירין because it is a יום טוב and forbid the egg until after רוב d) since most non-fertilized eggs are laid during the day, we assume on the basis of רוב that.דבר שיש בו מתירין and is therefore permissible even though it is a יום טוב the egg was laid before Answer: d
Name Page 4 of 5 מצות יאכל את שבעת הימים ולא יראה לך חמץ ולא יראה לך שאר בכל בגבלך: )שמות יג: ) 11. A) According to שמאי,בית why would one think that there is no need to explicitly mention the?פסח on שאור prohibition of owning.חמץ from קל וחומר Answer: We can learn it out from a B) What does בית שמאי learn from the fact that שאור is explicitly mentioned? Answer: That the שיעור for owning שאור is more strict (a (כית than the שיעור for owning חמץ (a.(כותבת חמץ and שאור explicitly tell us the prohibition of both תורה why must the בית הלל 12. According to?פסח on Answer: Had the תורה only told us about,שאור I would have thought that only שאור is prohibited תורה which is not as strong would be permitted to own. Had the,חמץ is strong, but חמץ because its only mentioned,חמץ I would have thought that only חמץ is prohibited, because it is edible, but permitted. which is not edible, would be שאור ש ב ע ת י מ ים ש א ר לא י מ צ א ב ב ת יכ ם כ י כ ל א כ ל מ ח מ צ ת ו נ כ ר ת ה ה נ פ ש ה ה וא מ ע ד ת י ש ר א ל ב ג ר וב א ר ח ה אר ץ: )שמות יב:יט ) חמץ and שאור mentions both תורה what do we learn from the fact the,רבי ירא 13. A) According to?פסוק in the Answer: That שאור and חמץ have the same,דין namely the שיעור for the איסור for חמץ is the same.שאור for איסור for the שיעור B) Does בית שמאי subscribe to רבי ירא and if so, how? שיעור have the same חמץ and שאור only says that רבי ירא Answer: Yes, he just says that.ביעור regarding eating them and not regarding The last case in our משנה says השוחט חיה ועוף ביום טוב, בית שמאי אומרים יחפור בדקר ויכסה ובית הלל אומרים לא ישחוט אלא אם כן היה לן עפר מוכן מבעוד יום ומודים שאם שחט, שיחפור בדקר ויכסה כסוי only allowed בית שמאי that,השוחט חיה statement, initially understood the first גמרא 14. Our shechted. the animal was already,בדיעבד if, הדם ובית הלל אומרים לא statement, initially ask from the second גמרא A) What question did the page) (answer on next?ישחוט
Name Page 5 of 5 לכתחילה is of the opinion that one isn t allowed to בית הלל Answer: That statement indicates that shecht the animal, but,,בדיעבד if the animal was already shechted, כיסוי הדם would be permitted..כיסוי הדם shecht an animal and do לכתחילה allows one to בית שמאי We can thus infer that B) How does the גמרא attempt to answer this question? בית הלל that,לא ישחוט ויכסה be, to בית הלל Answer: We should understand the second statement of does not allow doing כיסוי הדם even בדיעבד after the animal was shechted. C) Why did the גמרא reject this answer? בית הלל clearly indicates that ומודים שאם שחט, שיחפור בדקר ויכסה Answer: The third statement does בדיעבד allow כיסוי הדם once an animal was shechted. בית הלל,גמרא D) According to the conclusion of the.כיסוי הדם לכתחילה (a allows.כיסוי הדם בדיעבד (b allows בדיעבד even כיסוי הדם c) does not allow Answer: b on כסוי הדם in addition to requiring,אמר רבי ירא אמר רב, השוחט צריך שיתן עפר למטה ועפר למעלה.15.עפר be done over שחיטה he also requires that the,שחיטה top of the blood after According to שמאי,בית if one did not have prepared עפר over which to shecht an animal, is he?עפר with the rest of the דם shecht the animal over it, and then cover the,עפר allowed to dig Why or why not?רבה A) According to Answer: No, for we are worried that after he digs the dirt, the person might change his mind and not shecht the animal causing the dirt to have been dug for no reason.?רב יוסף B) According to.שמחת יום טוב Answer: Yes, for we want to encourage a person to have Let s plan to be קונה the מסכת focusing on a simple חרה of just the שקלא וטריא inside: Were you able to make a few minutes every day for an immediate חרה of the portion just learned??דף of the חרה or Sunday to do a שבת Were you able to make time on?דפים of the last 3 חרה or Sunday to do a שבת Were you able to make time on