Other People
What will happen to a man who marries a woman who was captured in war?
He will end up hating her
What can we not do with an ox and donkey together?
Plow a field
What two materials may we not sew together?
Wool and linen
Can we marry someone from עמון or מואב?
No
How long should a new husband not go to war for?
One year
What has to be done to the body of someone who was stoned?
It has to be hung on a tree
Why can we not plow with an ox and donkey together? (Give one reason)
An ox is stronger and it is difficult for a donkey to pull together with it
The donkey will see how the ox chews its cud and it will be in pain
If another ox sees an ox with a donkey, it will be in pain
What three mitzvos apply when cutting and collecting grain?
לקט, שכחה, פאה
Why can we not marry someone from עמון or מואב?
Because they didn't come out to give us food and drink when we were in the midbar; and because Moav hired Bilaam to curse us
In what instance will we remove a Chosson from underneath his Chupah to go to war?
If it is a מלחמת מצוה, such as the 7 nations of Cana'an
What is a בן סורר ומורה?
A son who is not listening to his parents and is indulging in meat and wine
What is the reward for שילוח הקן (sending away the mother bird before taking the eggs)?
Long life
If we find something in the Torah School and it has a siman, what mitzvah do we have?
השבת אבידה
Are we allowed to hate the Mitzriyim, and why?
No - because we lived in their land and we have to have hakaras hatov
Which nation do we have a mitzvah to remember to do something to them, and what do we have to do?
עמלק
We have to wipe them out completely
What must be done with a body which was hung (because the person got skilah), and by when?
It must be buried that day
What basic concept about animals do we learn from שילוח הקן and not plowing with two different animals together?
To not cause animals pain (צער בעלי חיים)
Name two instances where שעטנז is muttar?
When everyone wore strings of techeiles in their tzitzis - the techeiles strings were made of wool, and the others linen
Certain of the bidgei kehunah
What specific halacha about money does the Passuk say is different between Jews and non-Jews?
רבית
We may not charge interest from a Jew, but yes from a non-Jew (and vice versa by accepting)
Who got in a lot of trouble for not wiping out עמלק, and what was the punishment?
Shaul Hamelech; being king was removed from his family and given to דוד eventually
Give a reason that burying a dead person is a very big mitzvah?
The human body is the encasing of the neshamah in this world, and is the vessel through which we can do mitzvos in this world. A human body cannot be disrespected. We were created בצלם אלקים.
כבוד המת
What is unique about Shiluach Hakein and Kibbud Av Va'eim, and why is it significant that it's these two?
For both, the Torah says the reward is long life.
The Gemara says Shiluach Hakein is the easiest of the easiest of mitzvos
Kibbud Av is the most of difficult of the difficult mitzvos
But the reward is the same
Who gets Malkus for רבית?
The borrower, the lender, the guarantor of the loan, witnesses who witnessed the loan, and possibly even the person who wrote down the loan
What is a ממזר, and what level איסור does it have to be (איסור עשה, איסור לאו, איסור כרת, איסור מיתת בית דין)?
A ממזר is a child born to two people who are not allowed to marry each other. It is a machlokes tana'aim about the level of איסור, but we pasken that it has to be at least an
What does the Passuk mean when it says that Amalek “cooled” us off?
Rashi explains that if there is very hot water, no one will touch it. But if someone will jump into the boiling water, even though he gets burned, the water has cooled a bit, and now people can touch it. When we left Mitzrayim, everyone was scared to fight against us. However, Amalek came and fought with us, thereby cooling us off, and now other nations felt the ability to fight with us