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Siyum of Perek Bet

Total questions: 31

Worksheet time: 40mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

We need (a)   (number) of witnesses to confirm the moon

2.

We need an extra witness if the sanhedrin does not know you (to testify that you are legit)

a)

True

b)

False

3.

Who are the minim?

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4.

What did the minim do?

a)

Prevented people from giving testimony

b)

Lied to witnesses

c)

Gave false testimony

5.

The Samaritans are Jewish

a)

True

b)

False

6.

How did the Sanhedrin let the diaspora know about the new month, originally?

a)

Bonfires

b)

Messengers

c)

Email

7.

How did the Samaritans ruin the bonfire system

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8.

How did we let diaspora Jews know about the new month after the Samaritans ruined bonfires

a)

Witnesses

b)

Messengers

c)

Trumpets

9.

We used (a)   (number) of woods to create the torch?

10.

What kinds of wood are used to make the torches?

a)

cedar

b)

reeds

c)

flax fluff

d)

olive wood

11.

The way each torch lights after seeing the previous one is like (a)  

12.

"The diaspora" refers to (a)   (place) in the Mishnah

13.

Where was the last place to light a torch on a hill?

a)

Mount of Olives

b)

Grippin

c)

Sartavah

d)

Beit Bitlin

14.

What does כל ישראל ערבים זה בזה mean?

a)

We all rely on each other

b)

We are all responsible for each other

c)

We all need each other

d)

We look out for one another

15.

What does כל ישראל ערבים זה בזה with the torch lighting?

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16.

When the witnesses came to court they would stay in a (a)  

17.

Originally witnesses could not move more than 4 cubits (steps) outside the courtyard?

a)

True

b)

False

18.

Why did Rabban Gamliel change this law?

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19.

Who are other people were allowed to travel 2000 cubits outside the city?

a)

Midwife

b)

Someone who is saving someone from a bandit

c)

Someone who is saving someone from an overflowing river

d)

Someone who is saving someone from a collapsed building

20.

When the beit din would check the witnesses, they would start with the (a)   pair

21.

Would the pair need to both answer the Beit Din's correctly

a)

yes

b)

no

22.

Do we need all the pairs who come, in order to announce Rosh Hodesh?

a)

Yes

b)

No

c)

We need a few but not all

23.

Why do we ask the other witnesses questions at all?

a)

To be extra sure

b)

The Beit Din was bored

c)

To make them feel good about coming so they would come again

24.

How do we "sanctify" the new moon

a)

Blowing the shofar

b)

Sending messengers

c)

A back and forth chant

25.

Rabban Gamliel had pictures of the different phases of the (a)   in his office

26.

Rabban Gamliel rejected many testimonies that other Rabbis accepted

a)

False

b)

True

27.

There is only one interpretation of halakha

a)

True

b)

False

28.

Why did Rabban Gamliel tell Rabbi Joshua to come on the day Rabbi Joshua thought was Yom Kippur?

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29.

How are the holidays made holy?

a)

By us sanctifying it

b)

They just are holy on their own

30.

every group of 3 within those 70 are a valid beit din equivalent to Moshe’s Beit din

How does this relate to Rabbi Joshua's struggle of going by Rabban Gamliel's interpretation of Yom Kippur?

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31.

Come in peace my teacher and student.

My teacher because you are wiser than I, but my student because you accepted my decision’

What is connection between this and Rabbi Joshua's decision to go by Rabban Gamliel's interpretation of Yom Kippur?

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