Hilchot Shabbat
What’s the earliest time on Friday that one may make early Shabbat?
Plag HaMincha
What does the Torah mean when it describes the judicial practice of “an eye for an eye”?
A perpetrator is obligated to pay the monetary value of any physical damage to the victim
Leaving Mitzrayim
Bo
What is the halachic threshold at which a surface or liquid is considered hot enough to cook something else?
“Yad soledet bo” - hot enough that someone would recoil their hand
What is the punishment for false witnesses whose testimony would force the defendant to pay $100 to the claimant?
The witnesses pay $100 to the defendant
The passage “Ma tovu”
Balak
What are the 4 halachic “reshuyot” (domains, or classifications of areas) of Shabbat?
(1) Reshut HaYachid, (2) Reshut HaRabim, (3) Karmelit, (4) Makom P’tur
What are the 4 types of shomrim (guards, watchmen) in halacha?
(1) Shomer chinam (watches the object without compensation), (2) Shomer sachar (watches the object for compensation), (3) Socher (renter), (4) Sho’el (borrower)
Moshe’s Death
Vezot habracha
From which melacha does the prohibition of cutting nails on Shabbat come?
Gozeiz (shearing, usually an animal)
What’s the halachic difference between the obligation of a “ganav” (thief), who steals in secret, and a “gazlan” (robber) who steals openly?
A ganav may have to pay kefel (double the value of the stolen item), but a gazlan never does
The sin of the meraglim
Shelach
What 3 conditions must be met in order to permit separating an item from a mixture on Shabbat?
(1) Done by hand, (2) Done for immediate use, (3) Separate the good from the bad
Which 3 masechtot deal with the majority of Jewish civil law?
Bava kamma, Bava metzi’ah, Bava batra
Akeidat Yitzchak
Vayeira