REVIEW QUESTIONS - GITIN 36

REVIEW QUESTIONS ON GEMARA AND RASHI

Prepared by Rabbi Eliezer Chrysler
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GITIN 36 - Dedicated by Rav Gedalya Weinberger of Brooklyn, N.Y., in memory of his father, Reb Chaim Tzvi ben Reb Shlomo Weinberger, whose Yahrzeit is 18 Adar. Reb Chaim Tzvi, who miraculously survived the holocaust, raised his children with a strong dedication to Torah and its study.

1)
(a) What do we initially learn from the Pasuk in Yirmiyahu "v'Kasuv ba'Sefer v'Chasum"?
(b) How does Rabah therefore explain the 'Tikun ha'Olam' of Raban Gamliel? Who is the author of our Mishnah?
(c) How does Rebbi Elazar explain the Pasuk in Yirmeyahu?
(d) What is the reason for the Takanas Chachamim according to Rebbi Elazar?
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2)
(a) Rav Yosef establishes our Mishnah even like Rebbi Meir. What is then the 'Tikun ha'Olam'? What did the Eidei Chasimah used to sign before the Takanah?
(b) According to the Beraisa that supports Rav Yosef, on what condition would a Get be Kosher before the Takanah, when the witnesses did not sign their names?
(c) And what is the reason for the Takanas Chachamim according to Rebbi Meir?
(d) On what grounds do we query the Beraisa that obligates the witnesses to actually sign their names?
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3)
(a) Rav would stamp the picture of a fish on a Get in lieu of his signature, and Rav Chanina, that of a palm-branch. How did Rav Chisda used to sign?
(b) Rav Hoshaya would stamp the picture of an eye. How did Rabah bar Rav Huna sign?
(c) How do we reconcile this with Raban Gamliel, who required the name of the signatory on the Get?
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4)
(a) What is the connection between Hillel's Pruzbul and the Pasuk in Re'eh "Hishamer Lecha Pen Yiheyeh Davar Im Levavcha Beliya'al"?
(b) What does the creditor write in the Pruzbul?
(c) Who signs underneath?
(d) According to Abaye, by what right did Hillel countermand the law of the Torah, which cancels all debts at the end of the Shemitah year? With which Tana does Hillel concur?
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5)
(a) What does Rebbi infer from the double Lashon in the Pasuk in Re'eh "v'Zeh Devar ha'Shemitah, Shamot"? What does this teach us?
(b) How do we know that Shemitas ha'Aretz does not depend on the Beis ha'Mikdash standing?
(c) The criterion for Shemitas ha'Aretz is in fact, whether Yovel applies or not. From where do the Chachamim learn this?
(d) Why did the Chachamim nevertheless institute Shemitas ha'Aretz nowadays?
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6)
(a) The Toras Kohanim disagrees with the previous Derashah. What does the Toras Kohanim say?
(b) How does Abaye explain the fact that, even though nowadays, debts are not cancelled, the Rabanan declare them cancelled?
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7)
(a) We asked earlier by what right Hillel countermanded the law of the Torah, which cancels all debts at the end of the Shemitah year, and Abaye established Hillel like Rebbi. Rava disagrees. Like whom does he establish Hillel?
(b) How does he then answer the initial Kashya on Hillel? Who gives Hillel the right to countermand Torah law?
(c) We might learn 'Hefker Beis-Din Hefker' from the Pasuk in Ezra "v'Chol Asher Lo Yavo li'Sheloshes ha'Yamim ... Yochoram Kol Rechusho". We might also learn it from the Pasuk in Yehoshua "v'Roshei ha'Avos". How do we learn it from there?
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8)
(a) We ask whether Hillel instituted the Takanah of 'Pruzbul' for his generation only, or for all generations. What are the ramifications of this She'eilah?
(b) How do we attempt to resolve it from Shmuel, who states that Hillel's Pruzbul is confined to the Beis-Din of Sura and Neharda'a? What does this prove?
(c) How do we refute that proof?
(d) Why do we now refer to the Beis-Din of Rav Ami and Rav Asi?
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9)
(a) What did Shmuel mean when he referred to Pruzbul as 'Ulbana d'Dayna'?
(b) He continued 'I Ayasher Chayil Avatlinei'. What do we initially think he meant? What do we try to prove from there?
(c) How do we refute this proof?
(d) What did Rav Nachman mean when he said 'Akayminei', seeing as the Takanah was firmly established?
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10)
(a) We just cited Shmuel, who declared 'Ha P'rusb'la Ulbana d'Dayna Hu', which we translated as 'shame'. Alternatively, we translate it as 'convenience'. What does this mean?
(b) We refute the latter translation by quoting Ula's statement 'Aluvah Kalah she'Zinsah b'Kerev Chupasah'. What dies Ula's statement refer to?
(c) Rav Mari B'rah d'Bas Shmuel supports Ula from the Pasuk in Shir ha'Shirim "Ad she'ha'Melech bi'Mesibo, Nirdi Nasan Reicho". How does Rava prove from this very Pasuk that Hash-m still loves Yisrael?
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11)
(a) What does the Pasuk in Shoftim say about people who 'hear their shame but do not respond ... '?
(b) What must they do in addition, to earn such a description?
(c) How does Rav Chisda interpret the word 'Pruzbul'? What is it the acronym of?
(d) How is 'Pruzbul' for the benefit of the poor as well as the rich?
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