Chapter 1, Mishna 1

If a Jew can’t do business with idolators for 3 days before festival, do those days include the festival itself?
Who were the Notzrim and were they considered idolators?
When can and can’t a Jew do business with the Notzrim?
What are the festivals of the idolators?
When were Saturnalia and Calenda?
How to calculate when you can and can’t do business with idolators when their festival lasts 16 days?
Why don’t we do business with idolator before his festival?
What prohibition does it violate?
Is it stopping him from feeling joy so less likely to commit idolatry?
Or is it not putting a stumbling block?
What is practical difference between these two options?
What does it mean to not place a stumbling block before the blind?
What is relevance of the nazir to this question?
What is difference between extending and giving an animal?
If one ignored injunction and engaged in business with idolator before festival, can he keep the money he made?
What kind of business is prohibited?
What is difference between item that endures and one that doesn’t?
Is it prohibited to borrow or lend items to idolator before festival?
Why is it prohibited to collect payment of their debts if having less money wouldn’t make them celebrate more?
Why is it prohibited to borrow from them before festival?
Can one collect repayments before festival because it will make him distressed?
What is relevance of if a Jewish woman can apply lime to her skin during chol hamoed?
Can one collect payment of loan with promissory note?
What about a loan by oral agreement?
What if dyer dyed wool wrong color?
Who is at a disadvantage and what is relevance?
What is relevance of sequence of unattributed mishnas?

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