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  • Chapter 1, Mishna 1 Can a Jew sell right to fetuses to gentile?What if a Jew sells a labor animal to gentile?What does it mean that he has to buy it back for up to ten times its value mean?Could …

  • Chapter 1, Mishna 1 Why do we learn Torah?What if we can’t retain what we learn?Why is there a sanctity of firstborn?Why can a donkey, which is a nonkosher animal, be a bechor?When must a donkey bechor be redeemed?What if …

  • Chapter 12, Mishna 4, 5 In Rabbi Yehuda’s view, why is one flogged for taking the mother bird?Why is a robber flogged even though he must return what he stole?What does the robber’s case teach about Rabbi Yehuda’s view?Why is …

  • Chapter 12, MIshna 1, 2, 3 Can the mother bird be compared to the fledglings?What does “tzippor” teach about non-kosher birds?What does “a mother of fledglings that is tereifa” mean?Why is the mitzvah still required when the mother is tereifa?Does …

  • Chapter 12, MIshna 1 What does it mean that people are assigned a value?What does it mean “it is incumbent on me to donate my valuation”?What birds does mitzvah of shooing away mother apply to?Should every Jew be trying to …

  • Chapter 11, Mishna 1, Chapter 12, Mishna 1 How much wool must be given to the priest?Must the wool be laundered before giving it?How much wool must remain after laundering?Why must the wool be enough to make a garment?What wool …

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