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  • Chapter 2, Mishna 5, 6 Is it permitted to purchase hiltit from a gentile?What if it’s the Canaanite slave of a sage?What is a chaver in a Talmudic context?What is relevance of snail that creates techeilis (blue thread) in tzitzis?Who …

  • Chapter 2, Mishna 5 Can Jews eat food cooked by idolators?What if meat is cooked by combination of non-Jew and Jew?What is relevance of expediting cooking?What is the cooking of ben Dorosai?How much does meat have to be cooked to …

  • Chapter 2, Mishna 5 What did Yosef the Permissive permit that earlier sages did not?Is long-headed locust permitted or prohibited?What is purity status of liquids of slaughterhouse?Can liquids be impure, and can they impart impurity?Why was Yosef called the permissive …

  • Chapter 2, Mishna 5 Why is olive oil of idolators prohibited?What are ritually impure vessels?What creates ritual impurity?Does ritual impurity make food prohibited?What is relevance of if prohibited substance changed flavor of oil?How could Rebbi void a decree that was …

  • Chapter 2, Mishna 4, 5 What is meaning of verse, your love is greater than wine?Why would God say that statements of sages are more dear to Him than what’s in the Torah?Does one scrutinize origins of a new decree?What …

  • Chapter 2, Mishna 4 Are moist grapeseeds and grapeskins from idolators permitted?What about dry ones?Which are considered moist and which considered dry?Is fish stew prohibited and if so why?Why is fish stew permitted the first and second time it’s cooked …

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