Bava Metzia פרק א משנה א-ה

Who wrote down the Mishnah?

• Rabbi Akiva

• Rabbi Yishmael

• Rabbi Yehudah Hanasi

• Moshe

The first Mishnah begins with 2 people fighting over what object?

• An injured deer

• Money

• A tallit

• It doesn't say

The Hebrew word for "swears" is...

• שבע

• שיר

• נוש

• שוע

Which animal are they riding on in Mishnah ב?

• Doesn't say

• Horse

• Donkey

• Elephant

What does Mishnah ב teach us that we didn't already know?

• You must split an object if we don't know who found it first

• You can acquire an animal by riding on it or leading it

• You must swear in court if you claim something is yours

• That if 2 people agree that they acquired an object at the same time, they don't need to swear

A lost object in Hebrew is a

• מצה

• מציה

• מציעה

• מציאה

If someone is on an animal and he spots a lost object, and then he asks his friend to give it to him. His friend now decides to keep it. Who does it belong to?

• The friend

• The guy on the animal

• Nobody

If a person sees a lost object and he falls on it in order to acquire it, what is the halacha?

• He acquires it

• He doesn't acquire it

• He acquires it if he swears

What is the word for acquiring something?

• netilah

• metzia

• kinyan

• koneya

Someone falls on a lost object in order to acquire it, then someone comes and takes it from him. Who gets to keep it?

• Nobody

• They split it

• The guy who took the object and lifted it up

• The guy who fell on it