Chapter 1, Mishna 1

What are the relevant passages in the Torah about avoda zara?
What can’t we do on holidays of non-Jews?
What is the word we use for gentile festivals and what is relevance?
What is meaning and relevance of “Let them bring their witnesses that they may be justified”?
What is relevance of all the nations gathering together?
What does it mean that Torah will testify for you in the world to come?
Why is it necessary for each nation to stand and be addressed separately?
What does it mean that nations should not become intermingled?
Why does Roman Empire come first?
What does it mean that it’s the fourth empire?
In Daniel’s vision, what are empires asked on Day of Judgement and what do they say?
Why are Persians compared to a bear?
What is “this” in “who among them can declare this”?
Which nations did not oppress the Jewish people?
Why are nations being judged for not following God’s commandments when they weren’t given Torah?
Were other nations offered the Torah? Why didn’t they accept?
If God threatened to drop Mt. Sinai on Jews if they didn’t accept Torah
What were the first things?
What gentile is like a high priest?
Who is greater, one who is commanded to do a mitzvah and performs it, or one who is not commanded and performs it?
Where is evidence that Jewish people fulfilled the Torah?
How can God’s testimony on behalf of the Jewish people be valid since it’s testimony of a parent?
What does it mean that heaven and earth can’t testify on behalf of Jewish people?

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

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