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8)
(a) Rav Yehudah Amar Rav establishes the author of our Mishnah, which declares the Chalitzah of a Katan, Pasul, as Rebbi Meir. What does Rebbi Meir say?
(b) He establishes the Seifa too, which invalidates the Chalitzah of a Ketanah, like Rebbi Meir. What is Rebbi Meir's reason for this?
(c) What will the Chachamim say ...
1. ... in the Reisha (by the Chalitzah of a Katan)?
2. ... in the Seifa (by the Chalitzah of a Ketanah)?
(d) Who is 'the Chachamim'?
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(a) Rebbi Chiya and Rebbi Shimon b'Rebbi were engaged in a dispute, when Rebbi Yishmael b'Rebbi Yosi entered the Beis-ha'Medrash. One of them learned from the Pasuk in Melachim "v'Hayu Einai v'Libi Sham Kol ha'Yamim", that the eyes of someone who Davens should be directed downwards. What does 'downwards' mean?
(b) Why is that?
(c) What did the other one learn from the Pasuk in Eichah "Nisa Levaveinu el Kapayim"?
(d) How did Rebbi Yishmael b'Rebbi Yosi reconcile the two Pesukim?
(e) What was Avdan, a Talmid of Rebbi, referring to when he asked who it was who was walking over the heads of the holy people?
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10)
(a) What did Avdan retort when Rebbi Yishmael b'Rebbi Yosi replied that it was he who had come to study Torah under Rebbi?
(b) What did Rebbi Yishmael b'Rebbi Yosi reply when Avdan asked him whether he was worthy of studying Torah under Rebbi?
(c) And what did he reply when Avdan asked him whether he thought he was Moshe?
(d) How did Rebbi receive his due for not objecting when Rebbi Yishmael compared him to Hash-m?
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(a) What did Rebbi Yishmael b'Rebbi Yosi reply ...
1. ... when Rebbi asked Avdan to examine whether the Yevamah who came before them was a Gedolah or a Ketanah?
2. ... to Avdan when, after Rebbi recalled him, he stepped over the heads of the holy people?
(b) Why did Rebbi order Avdan to remain where he was?
(c) And why was the latter subsequently stricken with Tzara'as?
(d) What happened to his two sons and his two daughters-in-law?
(e) What did Rav Nachman bar Yitzchak comment on Avdan's harsh punishments?
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12)
(a) Rav Ami explains that, according to Rebbi Yosi, a Ketanah may perform Chalitzah 'b'Peutos'. What does he mean by that?
(b) Rava is not so lenient. How does he explain Rebbi Yosi?
(c) What is the Halachah?
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13)
Rav Yosef bar Minyumi Amar Rav Nachman rules not like Rebbi Shimon and Rebbi Yochanan ha'Sandlar (who permit Chalitzah with two Dayanim, but like the Tana Kama of our Mishnah, who requires three). Considering that he has already issued the ruling ...
1. ... that Chalitzah requires three Dayanim, why does he need this second ruling?
2. ... not like that pair, why does he need to rule that Chalitzah requires three?
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14)
(a) We learned earlier that Rebbi Akiva validated the Chalitzah of the Yavam and the Yevamah who performed Chalitzah in jail without any Dayanim. How did he know that Chalitzah was performed at all?
(b) What are the two possible ways of explaining that the above Halachah was brought before Rebbi Akiva? Where might the Chalitzah have taken place?
(c) How does Rav Yehudah Amar Rav resolve this She'eilah?
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