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REVIEW QUESTIONS ON GEMARA AND RASHI

prepared by Rabbi Eliezer Chrysler
Kollel Iyun Hadaf, Jerusalem

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Bechoros 60

1)

(a) What should one do if, in the process of taking Ma'aser Behemah, two lambs emerge simultaneously?

(b) What happens if the owner did not do that, but instead, he counted them as one?

(c) What happens if both the ninth and the tenth lambs emerge together?

(d) What will be the Din if the owner called the ninth lamb 'the tenth', the tenth, 'the ninth', and the eleventh, 'the tenth'?

(e) What is the Machlokes between Rebbi Meir and Rebbi Yehudah with regard to the Temurah of Ma'aser?

2)
(a) What is the Machlokes between Rebbi Yochanan and Rav Kahana regarding counting the lambs in pairs?

(b) How does Rebbi Yochanan reconcile his opinion with the Mishnah which says that the owner is obligated to call each one separately, and that, if he does not, the ninth and the tenth lambs are upset?

(c) And how does Rav Kahana reconcile his opinion with the Beraisa, which says that, if he called their numbers backwards, the tenth lamb (which he called 'the first') is nevertheless Ma'aser?

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3)

(a) From where do we know that, if he called the ninth lamb 'the tenth', the tenth, 'the ninth', and the eleventh, 'the tenth', that all three are Ma'aser?

(b) In that case, why are the eighth and the twelfth lambs not Ma'aser, if he calls them the 'tenth'?

(c) How do we explain the Beraisa, which holds that only one of the mistakes is Ma'aser, not both (the ninth and the eleventh)?

4)
(a) If the ninth and the tenth lambs emerged simultaneously, what is the difference whether the owner called them both 'the ninth', or 'the tenth'?

(b) Why does Rava need to add that if the tenth and the eleventh emerged simultaneously, and he called them both 'the eleventh', that they have the same Din as when he called both the ninth and the tenth 'the ninth'? But is that not obvious?

(c) What does 'Zeh ha'Klal' (in our Mishnah) come to include, if not to teach us that even if the tenth and the eleventh lambs emerged at the same time, the eleventh is nevertheless not Ma'aser unless he has removed the title of 'tenth' from the tenth?

(d) How does the Gemara attempt to prove that the Beraisa must hold that if the tenth and the eleventh lambs emerged simultaneously, the eleventh does not require the removal of the title 'tenth' from the tenth , for it to become holy?

(e) How does the Gemara reject this proof?

(f) Why then, does the Beraisa say 'Lo Kadam', since it really was Kadam?

5)
(a) Why did the Gemara think that the Beraisa could not go like Rebbi?

(b) How does it reconcile the Beraisa with Rebbi?

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