(a)What is Rebbi Yehoshua referring to when he compares what we have just learned to a ram which has one voice whilst it is alive, but seven after it is dead (which we will soon explain)?
(b)What is the meaning of this statement?
(c)The seven voices come from its two horns, its two calves, its skin, its intestines and its finer intestines. Its two horns are used to make two trumpets. What does the Tana mean by 'trumpets'?
(d)If the bones of its two calves are used to manufacture two flutes and its skin, a drum, what do they manufacture out of ...
1. ... its intestines?
2. ... its finer intestines?
1)
(a)When Rebbi Yehoshua compares what we have just learned to a ram which has one voice whilst it is alive, but seven after it is dead (which we will soon explain) - he is referring to the unfortunate Yoledes, who began with an obligation to bring one pair of birds, and ended up with having to bring an additional seven ...
(b)... just like a ram, whose bleats one expects to cease when it dies, yet its one voice turns into seven.
(c)The seven voices come from its two horns, its two calves, its skin, its intestines and its finer intestines. Its two horns are used to make two trumpets - which really refers to Shofros.
(d)The bones of its two calves are used to manufacture two flutes, its skin, a drum, its ...
1. ... its intestines - a lute, and ...
2. ... its finer intestines - a harp.
2)
(a)What do all of these have in common with each other and with the unfortunate Yoledes?
(b)Others add the ram's wool which can be used to manufacture T'cheiles (like ben Azai adds an eighth bird to the Tana Kama's seven (Tosfos Yom-Tov). What did they do with the T'cheiles?
(c)What 'voice' does this refer to?
(d)On what grounds does the Tana Kama then argue with Yesh Omrim?
2)
(a)What all of these have in common with each other and with the unfortunate Yoledes is - that they, like the Korbanmos that the Yoledes brings, are all used for the Avodah in the Beis Hamikdash.
(b)Others add the ram's wool which can be used to manufacture Techeiles (like ben Azai adds an eighth bird to the Tana Kama's seven (Tosfos Yom-Tov) - with which they made the Kohen Gadol's Me'il (cloak).
(c)The 'voice' that this refers to is - that of the golden bells which surrounded its hem among (or inside) the woolen pomegranates that were sewn onto it.
(d)The Tana Kama argues with Yesh Omrim - in that it was the bells that were attached to the Me'il that made the sound, and not the Me'il itself.
3)
(a)Rebbi Shimon ben Akashya draws a distinction between aging Amei-ha'Aretz and ageing Talmidei-Chachamim, based on Pesukim in Iyov. What does he learn from the Pasuk there ...
(b)What does this have to do with the current Mishnah?
3)
(a)Rebbi Shimon ben Akashya draws a distinction between aging Amei-ha'Aretz and aging Talmidei-Chachamim, based on Pesukim in Iyov. He learns from the Pasuk there ...
1. ... "Meisir Safah le'Ne'emanim ve'Ta'am Zekeinim Yikach" - that their senility increases with their age.
2. ... "bi'Yeshishim Chochmah - that the older they get, the more lucid they become.
(b)This is similar to the current Mishnah in that - just like there we saw how (in the service of Hash-m), a ram becomes more productive after its death than during its lifetime, so too, does a Talmid-Chacham, in the service of Hash-m, become more lucid (and productive) as he approaches death.
