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Midrash Halakhah
Damages and Debts
Pain and Medicine
Life Skills
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תניא
What is the introduction to a ברייתא?
100
This word means "you might think this...but you would be wrong!"
What is יכול?
100
The four major categories of damages, according to the first Mishnah in Bava Kamma.
What are שור, בור, מבעה, and הבער?
100
This is the reason that some Tannaim think you are more likely to need to pay ריפוי than שבת.
What is רפא ירפא (the double language in the verse)?
100
This is where you can find the citation of a verse from the Torah that gets quoted in the Gemara.
What is the תורה אור?
200
תנן
What is the introduction to a משנה?
200
This phrase means that you can learn something from the fact that two words or ideas are mentioned next to one another or close to one another.
What is סמיך ליה?
200
This is when a person is held responsible for causing physical damage.
What is always (sleeping, awake, intentionally, accidentally, etc.)?
200
This is how you calculate how much to pay for pain (according to the Gemara).
What is figure out how much a person would pay to have their arm removed painlessly instead of painfully?
200
This is where you look on the page if you want to know whether or not a ברייתא comes from the תוספתא.
What is מסורת הש״ס?
300
במאי קמיפלגי
What words mean 'what is this argument about'?
300
This is what it is called when a word is used in two places, and we can figure out what it means in the second place because we know what it means in the first.
What is a גזירה שוה?
300
שור מועד
What do we call an ox that has attacked people in the past?
300
This is what Rabbi Yishmael thinks the words רפא ירפא teach us.
What is "that doctors have permission to heal"?
300
This is where you look if you want to see how the Gemara you are reading gets legislated into halakhah.
What is עין משפט נר מצוה?
400
לא סלקא דעתך
What is the best way to say "don't think that!"?
400
The midrash halakhah term for double language, like רפא ירפא.
What is יתור (or sometimes: קרא יתירא)?
400
According to the Mishnah, this is the דין if you embarrass someone who is naked.
What is חייב?
400
This is the verse in the Torah that kicks off the conversation about how we relate to doctors.
What is כי אני ה׳ רפאך?
400
This halakhic work has 14 sections, and is sometimes called the יד or the יד החזקה.
What is the משנה תורה?
500
תניא נמי הכי
What is a way to say "this was also taught in a ברייתא"?
500
The first answer to the question of אמאי uses this מדרש הלכה technique.
What is היקש (or גזירה שוה)?
500
This is what the word naked means in the Mishnah according to Rav Pappa (in the Gemara on 86b).
What is dressed, but the wind came and wrapped your skirt up a bit?
500
According to the רא״ש, this would be a much more מחמיר way to calculate the payment for צער.
What is "ask a person how much you would have to pay them to inflict pain"?
500
These are the names of the third and fourth sections of the Shulchan Aruch, respectively.
What is אבן העזר and חושן משפט?
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