REVIEW QUESTIONS - SANHEDRIN 21

REVIEW QUESTIONS ON GEMARA AND RASHI

Prepared by Rabbi Eliezer Chrysler
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SANHEDRIN 21 - Dedicated by Harav Shlomo Weinberger of Brooklyn, NY, in memory of his father, Reb Chaim Tzvi ben Reb Shlomo Weinberger, whose Yahrzeit is 18 Adar. Reb Chaim Tzvi, a Holocaust survivor who raised his family in a new country, bequeathed his children steadfast commitment to Torah and its study.

1)
(a) How many wives does the Tana Kama permit a king to have?
(b) Rebbi Yehudah permits more, provided they do not turn him away from serving Hash-m. What does Rebbi Shimon say? Why does the Torah write "Lo Yarbeh Lo Nashim"?
(c) According to Rebbi Yehudah in a Beraisa, when the Torah writes "Lo Sachbol Beged Almanah", it is referring to any Almanah. What does Rebbi Shimon say?
(d) What is the basis of their Machlokes?
(e) How does Rebbi Shimon therefore Darshen the Pasuk?
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2)
(a) How does the Machlokes between Rebbi Yehudah and Rebbi Shimon regarding the security of an Almanah clash with their Machlokes in our Mishnah?
(b) If Rebbi ...
1. ... Yehudah does not generally Darshen the Torah's reason for Mitzvos, why does he Darshen it here?
2. ... Shimon generally Darshens the Torah's reasons for the Mitzvos, why does he does he not do so here?
(c) How many wives did David have in Chevron?
(d) What do the following have in common Amnon, Kil'av, Avshalom, Adoniyah, Shefatyah and Yisre'am?
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3)
(a) What do we learn from the Navi's words to David "Im Me'at, ve'Osifah Lecha Kaheinah ve'Chaheinah"?
(b) According to others, a king is permitted twenty-four wives. What does a third opinion hold?
(c) What is the source for saying ...
1. ... twenty-four?
2. ... forty-eight?
(d) On what grounds does our Mishnah decline to learn like the first of the two latter Tana'im?
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4)
(a) The Tana lists the six wives of David (in Chevron) Achino'am ha'Yizre'elis, Avigayil Eishes Naval ha'Karmeli, Ma'achah, Chagis, Avital and Eglah. Why does the Pasuk omit Michal?
(b) Then why does the Pasuk refer to her as 'Eglah'?
(c) What do we learn from the word "be'Eglasi" (in the Pasuk in Shoftim [in connection with Shimshon] "Lulei Charashtem be'Eglasi, Lo Metzasem Chidasi")?
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5)
(a) How does Rav Chisda initially reconcile what we just said with the Pasuk in Shmuel "u'le'Michal bas Shaul Lo Hayah lah V'lad ad Yom Mosah"?
(b) How do we refute this explanation on the basis of the fact that the first Pasuk was said in Chevron?
(c) What is the significance of the fact that the second Pasuk was said in Yerushalayim? What did Rav Yehudah (and some say Rav Yosef) say about this?
(d) So how do we answer the initial Kashya? Did Michal have children or not?
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6)
(a) The Pasuk records that David 'married' more women and concubines. How does Rav Yehudah Amar Rav define the difference between a wife and a concubine?
(b) Rav Yehudah Amar Rav also refers to David Hamelech's four hundred children. Who were their mothers?
(c) How does he describe them?
(d) And he also refers to them as 'Ba'alei Agrupin shel Beis David'. What does this mean?
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7)
(a) How does Rav Yehudah Amar Rav prove that David's daughter Tamar, was also the daughter of a Y'fas To'ar?
(b) Amnon had a friend called Yonadav ben Shim'ah. What sort of Chacham does Rav Ashi describe him as?
(c) What advice did Yonadav give Amnon?
(d) What sort of food did Tamar prepare for her 'sick' brother?
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8)
(a) After the rape, Amnon hated Tamar even more intensely than he had previously been infatuated by her. What had Tamar done to earn that hatred?
(b) How do we reconcile this with Rava, who says that the B'nos Yisrael did nor have under-arm hair or pubic hair (see Agados Maharsha)?
(c) How does Rebbi Yehoshua ben Korchah interpret Tamar's tears and screams for the good?
(d) What does Rebbi Yochanan quoting Rebbi Shimon ben Yehotzadak extrapolate from the Pasuk in Re'ei "Ki Yesischa Achicha ben Imecha (and not Ben Avicha!)?
(e) How do we reconcile this with Rav Yehudah Amar Rav, who said that they decreed 'al ha'Yichud (of a married woman) ve'al ha'Penuyah (who is unmarried) only after the incident with Amnon and Tamar?
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9)
(a) What was unusual about the crown that was worn by the kings of Beis David?
(b) In view of that, what are the connotations of the Pasuk in Melachim "va'Adoniyah ben Chagis Misnasei Leimor Ani Emloch!" What was his mistake?
(c) The Pasuk in Melachim describes how Adoniyah arranged for a special chariot and riders and fifty men to run in front of his chariot. What was unusual about those fifty runners?
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10)
(a) How many horses does our Mishnah permit a king to own ...
(b) ... and how much silver and gold?
(c) What does he do with the special Seifer-Torah that he writes himself when he ...
1. ... goes out to war?
2. ... sits in judgment?
3. ... sits in his palace?
(d) From where do we learn this?
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11)
(a) What do we learn from ...
1. ... "lo" in the Pasuk in Shoftim "Lo Yarbeh lo Susim"?
2. ... "Susim" there?
3. ... the continuation of the Pasuk "Lema'an Harbos Sus"?
(b) Having written "Lema'an Harbos Sus", why does the Torah then need to write "Susim"?
(c) What do we mean when we say that, if not for "lo", we would have forbidden the king to own even the minimum amount of horses that a royal stable requires?
(d) And by the same token, what do we mean when we say that, had the Torah not inserted "Lo" in the Pasuk "ve'Chesef ve'Zahav Lo Yirbeh Lo", he would not even have been permitted to own the minimum amount of silver and gold that he needs to entertain his royal guests?
(e) Now that "lo" comes for a D'rashah, what do we learn from the word "lo" (in the Pasuk "ve'Lo Yarbeh lo Nashim")?
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