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WorksheetsSiyum of Perek Bet
Total questions: 31
Worksheet time: 40mins
We need (a) (number) of witnesses to confirm the moon
We need an extra witness if the sanhedrin does not know you (to testify that you are legit)
True
False
Who are the minim?
What did the minim do?
Prevented people from giving testimony
Lied to witnesses
Gave false testimony
The Samaritans are Jewish
True
False
How did the Sanhedrin let the diaspora know about the new month, originally?
Bonfires
Messengers
How did the Samaritans ruin the bonfire system
How did we let diaspora Jews know about the new month after the Samaritans ruined bonfires
Witnesses
Messengers
Trumpets
We used (a) (number) of woods to create the torch?
What kinds of wood are used to make the torches?
cedar
reeds
flax fluff
olive wood
The way each torch lights after seeing the previous one is like (a)
"The diaspora" refers to (a) (place) in the Mishnah
Where was the last place to light a torch on a hill?
Mount of Olives
Grippin
Sartavah
Beit Bitlin
What does כל ישראל ערבים זה בזה mean?
We all rely on each other
We are all responsible for each other
We all need each other
We look out for one another
What does כל ישראל ערבים זה בזה with the torch lighting?
When the witnesses came to court they would stay in a (a)
Originally witnesses could not move more than 4 cubits (steps) outside the courtyard?
True
False
Why did Rabban Gamliel change this law?
Who are other people were allowed to travel 2000 cubits outside the city?
Midwife
Someone who is saving someone from a bandit
Someone who is saving someone from an overflowing river
Someone who is saving someone from a collapsed building
When the beit din would check the witnesses, they would start with the (a) pair
Would the pair need to both answer the Beit Din's correctly
yes
no
Do we need all the pairs who come, in order to announce Rosh Hodesh?
Yes
No
We need a few but not all
Why do we ask the other witnesses questions at all?
To be extra sure
The Beit Din was bored
To make them feel good about coming so they would come again
How do we "sanctify" the new moon
Blowing the shofar
Sending messengers
A back and forth chant
Rabban Gamliel had pictures of the different phases of the (a) in his office
Rabban Gamliel rejected many testimonies that other Rabbis accepted
False
True
There is only one interpretation of halakha
True
False
Why did Rabban Gamliel tell Rabbi Joshua to come on the day Rabbi Joshua thought was Yom Kippur?
How are the holidays made holy?
By us sanctifying it
They just are holy on their own
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?
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?
