Student+Scraps

Zugoat pairs 2 teachers who lead ppl aka sanhedreen :Nasi bait deen helps egged in discussion to get good solution 500 z 2lead ppl

Had many arguments and was written all down and new rules Oral Torah got bigger and bigger

Bait hamigdash distorted but sages continued ayer clled tanim

oral Torah Moshe wrote it from god and taught it to yehosua tought to zekainim to nevium tought 2 Israel men of the great assembly spoke ameraiic

Helps understand written Torah

Zugoat pairs 2 teachers who lead ppl aka sanhedreen :Nasi bait deen helps egged in discussion to get good solution 500 z 2lead ppl

Had many arguments and was written all down and new rules Oral Torah got bigger and bigger

Bait hamigdash distorted but sages continued ayer clled tanim

Questions

1)How many people were part of the great assembly? 120 2)who did Moses pass the Torah onto?yehoshua 3)who did yehoshua pass the Torah down to? The zekainim 4)

Beginning the Mishnah

We are studying the first of the........... sederim (orders) of the Mishnah.

The first Masechet (...............) in our seder is called.................... which means......................

The first Perek (................................) is called Perek ............................, and the first Mishnah in that Perek is called Mishnah...................

ברכות פרק א

? מֵאֵימָתַי קוֹרִין אֶת שְׁמַע בְּעַרְבִית?

Chevruta on first line 1. The first Seder of the Mishnah is Zeraim (seeds) (that deals with agricultural laws). Why is the first seder seeds (and not, festivals, marital laws, damages, sacrifices, or ritual purity).

2. Why is brachot the first masechet in Zeraim (seeds) first? (as opposed to the laws of tithing, giving peot (corners) to the poor, or kilayim (forbidden seed mixtures)

3. Why does the Mishnah start with the evening Shema (and not the morning one)?

4. What is the Shema about?

5. So what message is the compiler of the Mishnah telling us by discussing the laws of Shema first?

 ברכות פרק א מֵאֵימָתַי קוֹרִין אֶת שְׁמַע בְּעַרְבִית1 ?

2. מִשָּׁעָה שֶׁהַכֹּהֲנִים נִכְנָסִים לֶאֱכֹל בִּתְרוּמָתָן,

שֶׁהַכֹּהֲנִים = שֶׁ+הַ+כֹּהֲנִים, נִכְנָסִים = כוֹנס, בִּתְרוּמָתָן = תְרוּמָה שלהם = tithe [to the Cohen]n

3. עַד סוֹף הָאַשְׁמוּרָה הָרִאשׁוֹנָה, דִּבְרֵי רַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר.

הָאַשְׁמוּרָה הָרִאשׁוֹנָה =first watch

4. וַחֲכָמִים אוֹמְרִים, עַד חֲצוֹת.

5 .רַבָּן גַּמְלִיאֵל אוֹמֵר, עַד שֶׁיַּעֲלֶה עַמּוּד הַשָּׁחַר.

שֶׁיַּעֲלֶה = rises up, עַמּוּד הַשָּׁחַר = dawn