REVIEW QUESTIONS ON GEMARA AND RASHI
prepared by Rabbi Eliezer Chrysler
Kollel Iyun Hadaf, Jerusalem
Previous daf Menachos 99
MENACHOS 96-99 - Two weeks of study material have been dedicated by Mrs.
Estanne Abraham Fawer to honor the fourth Yahrzeit of her father, Reb
Mordechai ben Eliezer Zvi (Weiner), who passed away 18 Teves 5760. May the
merit of supporting and advancing Talmud study during the week of his
Yahrzeit serve as an Iluy for his Neshamah.
(a) Having established that there were two rows of tables, where do we
initially think Moshe's Shulchan was placed?
(b) How much space did the Kohanim carrying the two rows of Lechem ha'Panim
require to pass as they walked side by side?
(c) What problem does that leave us with, according to Rebbi?
(d) Why can we not ask the same Kashya on Rebbi Elazar b'Rebbi Shimon too,
seeing as it is not possible to fit five tables into the north side of the
Heichal without the tables entering a little into the south?
(a) How do we answer the Kashya? How did they arrange Moshe's Shulchan?
Which direction did it face?
(b) And what do we mean when we describe the other tables 'ke'Talmid
ha'Yoshev Lifnei Rabbo'?
(a) What does the Beraisa learn from the Pasuk in Malachi ...
(b) What does Rebbi Elazar ben Shamua learn from the Pesukim there "es
ha'Shulchanos ve'Aleihem Lechem" and "es ha'Menoros ve'Neroseihem Leva'aram
ka'Mishpat ... "?
- ..."ve'es ha'Shulchan Asher Alav Lechem ha'Panim"?
- ... "Menoras ha'Zahav ve'Nerosehah Leva'er ba'Erev"?
(c) Rebbi Yossi b'Rebbi Yehudah concurs with the Tana Kama regarding the
How does he establish the Pasuk "es ha'Shulchanos va'Aleihem
Lechem"? To which Shulchanos does this refer?
(a) Why did the Kohanim place the Lechem ha'Panim on one of the tables in
the Ulam whilst carrying them in to the Heichal?
(b) If the Shulchan on which they placed it was made of marble (as we shall
see in the next Mishnah, why does the Beraisa refer to it as a silver table?
(c) When they carried the loaves out to distribute them among the Kohanim,
they placed them on the golden Shulchan that was lying there.
Why did they
(d) How do we learn from here the principle ...
1. ... 'Ma'alin ba'Kodesh'?
2. ... 've'Lo Moridin'?
(a) How does Rebbi learn from the Pasuk in Pikudei "Va'yakem Moshe es
ha'Mishkan, Va'yiten es Adanav, Va'yasem es Kerashav, Va'yiten es Berichav,
Va'yakem es Amudav"?
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(b) And how does Rav Acha bar Ya'akov learn from the fire-pans of Korach the
principle of 'Ma'alin ba'Kodesh?
(c) And what does the Beraisa quoted by Rav Yosef learn from the Pasuk in
Eikev "Asher Shibarta Ve'samtam ba'Aron"?
(d) What principle does the Tana learn from there?
(a) The Torah could have written 'she'Shibarta'.
What do we Darshen from
the word "Asher"?
(b) What principle does Resh Lakish learn from there?
(c) And what does he learn from the Pasuk in ...
(d) This is based on a statement by Rebbi Avin Amar Rebbi Ila'a. What did
Rebbi Avin say about the words "Hishamer", "Pen" and "Al"?
- ... Hoshe'a "Ve'chashalta ha'Yom, Ve'chashal Navi Gam Imach Laylah"? How does he explain the word "Laylah"?
- ... Devarim (in connection with Torah-study) "Rak Hishamer Lecha u'Shemor Nafshecha Me'od"?
(a) What does ...
(b) What do they learn from the continuation of the Pasuk "u'Fen Yasuru
- ... Ravina learn with regard to Resh Lakish's ruling, from the fact that the Torah writes both "Hishamer" and "Pen"?
- ... Rav Nachman bar Yitzchak say about this, based on the Torah's three expressions "Rak Hishamer Lecha, u'Shemor Nafshecha Me'od, Pen Tishkach"?
(c) What does Rebbi Dustai b'Rebbi Yanai add to this, based on the opening
word "Rak"? What does it come to preclude?
(a) What do Torah and the Neshamah (i.e. the formation of the baby) have in
(b) What statement do Rebbi Yochanan and Rebbi Elazar issue, based on this
(c) What analogy does Tana de'Bei Rebbi Yishmael draw with someone who
handed a wild bird to his Eved? What did he tell the Eved, who thought that
if the bird flew away, he would pay his master the small value of the bird?
(a) The Mishnah discusses the two tables in the Ulam (that we have already
Whereabouts in the Ulam were they placed?
(b) Four Kohanim entered the Heichal on Shabbos afternoon to change the
What were they holding?
(c) Four other Kohanim preceded them empty-handed.
What was their
(d) When they arrived at the Shulchan, where did they all stand? Who is the
author of the Mishnah?
(a) How did they proceed, according to the Tana Kama, bearing in mind the
need to adhere to the specification of "Tamid"?
(b) What does Rebbi Yossi say? How does he then define "Tamid"?
(a) When did they distribute the loaves among the Kohanim? Why could they
not distribute them on Sunday?
(b) On what occasion would they distribute the loaves on Motza'ei Shabbos?
(c) What would they do with the Sa'ir of Musaf when Yom Kippur fell on
Friday (although this cannot happen today), and it was forbidden to cook it
on Motza'ei Yom Kipur?
(d) Who would eat a goat raw?
(a) What does Rebbi Yossi in a Beraisa, say about removing the Lechem
ha'Panim on Shabbos morning and placing the new ones only in the evening
(b) How does ...
(c) He added however, that it is forbidden to tell this to an Am ha'Aretz.
- ... Rebbi Ami adapt Rebbi Yossi's opinion to the Mitzvah of "Lo Yamush Seifer ha'Torah ha'Zeh mi'Picha, Ve'hagisa Bo Yomam va'Laylah"?
- ... Rebbi Yochanan carry this one step further?
Why is that?
(d) According to Rava however, it is a Mitzvah to do so.
Why is that?
(a) ben Dama asked Rebbi Yishmael whether he was allowed to study Greek
Who was ben Dama? What made him believe that this may be
(b) What did the latter reply?
(c) Rebbi Shmuel bar Nachmeni disagrees.
Quoting Rebbi Yonasan, how does
he interpret the Pasuk "Lo Yamush"?
(d) Why did Hashem confer such a B'rachah upon Yehoshua?
(a) What does Tana de'Rebbi Yishmael mean when he says that Divrei Torah are
not an obligation? How does he conclude his statement?
(b) Based on a Pasuk in Iyov, what advice does Hashem give to those who want
to escape having to go to Gehinom?
(c) What does Chizkiyah declare about Hashem's ways, from the fact that the
Pasuk begins with the words "ve'af Hesischa"?
(a) Chizkiyah discusses further the Pasuk in Iyov. Why is the entrance to
Answers to questions
(b) What does he then learn from the Pasuk in Yeshayah ...
(c) And what do we learn from the Pasuk ...
- ... "He'emik Hirchiv"
- ... "Gam Hi le'Melech Huchan"? To whom does "Melech" refer?
- ... there "Medurasah Eish ve'Eitzim"?
- ... in Iyov "Ve'nachas Shulchancha Malei Deshen?