Chapter 1, Mishna 3

What is Kretisis and what is relevance?
Are there two holidays celebrating different times Rome seized an empire?
What partnership did the Romans make with the Jews to take down the Greeks?
What was back-and-forth correspondence between Rome and Greece re: pearl and precious stones?
What does it mean that precious stones were Rome and onyx was Jews?
What verse did Rome interpret to treat the Jews well?
What verse did Rome interpret to subjugate the Jews?
Regarding what law is it necessary to know where Sanhedrin would convene during 2nd Temple period?
What is relevance of studying and judging laws of fines?
Who were the newly ordained rabbis and what did their teacher tell them to do when Romans came?
What is relevance of chamber of hewn stone?
What happened when sanhedrin didn’t meet in their proper place?
How long did Rome rule over the Jews?
How long did different dynasties rule over the Jews and what is relevance?
What is relevance of “for those 20 years I stayed at your house”?
How to determine how much time has passed since Temple’s destruction?
What is relevance of calculation of years?
When should Moshiach have come?
From when are 2000 years from time period of the Torah counted?
How many years were there from creation of world to giving of Torah?
What is relevance of the souls that Abraham and Sarah got in Haran?
What if one doesn’t know which year in sabbatical year it is?
What is relevance of dates to whether should one not purchase a field for one dinar when it’s worth much more?
What is dating system used by most scribes?
What is Greek rule and do we date years according to it?
Do we date from the Exodus from Egypt?
When is the new year for kings of Israel and when for non-Jewish kings?

Opening song: Moshe Storch leads Hallel at Beis Medrash Hancock Park

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