1.
להכריז:
to
announce
מפוזרין:
scattered
בציר:
less
than
שקיל:
to
take
אניצי פשתן: bundles of flax
קב: a dry
measurement of grain
ארבע אמות: an area of four amot (arm length from
top of middle finger until elbow) by four amot
דרך הינוח: placed deliberately (not yeush)
במכנשתא דבי
דרי עסקינן: produce left behind at the time of the clearing of the
threshing
2.
דלמא:
maybe
טעמא:
the reason
דנפיש
תרחייהו:
the effort needed to collect them is great (automatic yeush)
משום דלא
חשיבי:
not of great importance (automatic yeush)
קב שומשמין: an amount of sesame seeds
קב תמרים:
an amount of dates
קב רימונים: an amount of pomegranates
תיקו:
let it stand/be
**Principle: If it’s not worth
your time and effort it’s automatic Yeush.
מפקיר:
renouncing
ownership, willingly.
יאוש:
loss
of ownership, due to loss of hope to find the object
Question: Why can you keep a bundle of wheat if you found it in a public place and not a private place? Isn’t the fact that is gets stepped on a sign??? And why is a bundle of wheat different from all the other findings (scattered fruit, scattered coins, circles of figs, loaf of bread, strings of fish, pieces of meat, wool, and linen.)
Answer: No! The bundles of wheat were found in a way that appears that he placed them down on purpose. A sign that it gets stepped on is a sign! But, in this case there was sign at all. In a public place, as people step on it, it moves from its original place so the place is not a sign. However, in a private place the place IS a sign because many people don’t walk there and it will not move from its original place.
On the other hand bread and figs don’t have a sign either, and were in found in a way that looks like they simply fell by mistake. Therefore, even in a private place there’s no sign.
Question: Why do bundles of wheat look like they were placed down on purpose and bread and figs look like they just fell by mistake?
Answers: They’re big and heavy. And someone would have noticed if they fell. The only way they could be lost is if they were unloaded and someone left them there.
Question: In the Gemarah it gives a case of half a kav in 2 amot. What does this mean?
Answer1: 2 amot = 2 amot by 4 amot.
Answer2: 2 amot is NOT a 2 by 4 amot area; it’s a 2 amot by 2 amot area. Because an area of 2 amot by 2 amot is only a quarter the amount of 4 amot by 4 amot.
General Outline
· Gathered all relevant sources together
· Read through and understood our Sugya
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Made our
· Studied relevant Tosfots and Rashis
· Worked on the PowerPoint presentation
· Made a list of all important terms and resources
· Thought of ideas on how to present our Sugya