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Chapter 7, Mishna 4 What is significance of “until 1/6” re: whether refund goes to buyer? When does sale stand? Is precisely 1/6 likened to more than 1/6 or less than 1/6? What is like a sale of orphan’s property? …
Chapter 7, Mishna 3 What is legal difference between “precise” and “more or less” of a beis kor? What if there are contradictory stipulations when selling land? What is relevance of renting land in a leap year? When do parties …
Chapter 7, Mishna 2 If a purchaser received more or less land than he agreed to buy, what is the law? What do we learn from the mishna’s two cases about a precise beis kor of land, and a beis …
Chapter 7, Mishna 1 What is a beis kor? Why are rocks and crevices in a field treated differently than other areas? What does it mean to consecrate your field? How to redeem ancestral fields that have been consecrated? What …
Chapter 6, Mishna 8 If one sells land for a catacomb or contracts to have one created, what is size range of catacomb? How many burial niches and how are they positioned/accessed? How many niches per chamber? How many chambers …
Chapter 6, Mishna 7 If a field owner provides a second thoroughfare for public, can people use both of them? Why should people be allowed to appropriate land from a private owner? Can owner destroy the public thoroughfare if he …
Chapter 6, Mishna 4, 5, 6, 7 What size were cherubs/statues of angels in the Temple? Why does it say 30 cubits tall in one verse and 20 cubits in another? What is the verse teaching us by considering only …
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