Word of G
Shas Boss
Don't mess with Commentators
Halacha קא
It's my minhag
100

This is the number of books in the Written Torah

What is 24

100

This is forbidden to write down

What is the oral Torah?

100

This is the time period that the Rishonim lived in

When is the Medieval period (approx 1000CE-1400CE)?

100

This is one of the most important rules for Torah and Halacha

What is BE NORMAL???

100

Sephardi, Ashkenazi, Temani, Chasidi are all types of this

Different minhagim
200
These are all five of the names of the books of Moses

What are בראשית, שמות, ויקרא, במדבר, דברים

200

This is the number of orders of Mishnah

What is 6?

200

This is one of the main things the Rishonim did for halacha

Codified the laws from the Gemara

200

חומרא

דין

קולא

What are the three levels of Halacha?
200

This is a minhag

A location-based custom passed on through families. It generally does not conflict with halacha and only adds to it.
300

This is the process of deriving information or laws from a verse

What is דרש?

300
This is when the Gemara was codified

When is the year 800 (or so)?

300

This is one of the most famous Rishonim, commenting on law and also being a doctor

Who is the Rambam?

300

This is a C.L.O.R.

What is a Competent Local Orthodox Rabbi?

300

Standing or sitting for kiddush

What is a family custom?

400

He wrote Shir HaShirim, Kohelet, and Mishlei.

Who is Shlomo HaMelech?

400

This is the purpose of Gemara

What is: to teach us how to think?

or What is: speaking out the oral tradition through dialogue to help derive law?

400

These commentators lived from 1400-present.

Who are the Acharonim

400

This is Jewish history, this is how a Jew thinks, this is how a Jew lives

What are Tanach, Gemara, and Halacha (in a responsa from the Rambam to a convert)

400

A minhag that becomes so widespread that it gets a status of halacha (is even called like a Torah law)

What is מנהג ישראל?

500

These can be used to clarify biblical law, but cannot be the source for one of the 613 mitzvot.

What is נביאים or כתובים?

500

This is the number of masechtas in Shas.

What is 63?

500

These are where Rabbis look to find halachic responsas (writings about cases in law)

Where are works of the Rishonim and Acharonim?

500

Psukim, Mishnah, Gemara, Rishonim, Acharonim, our lives....

What are the stages of mesorah (for halachic psak)

500

Laws that are not biblical, but were given at the time of the giving of the Torah

What are הלכה למשה מסני?