Chapter 1, Mishna 1

What can we learn from “they were so lofty they were like angels”?
What is relevance of Psalm 82?
What is relevance of God standing in divine assembly?
Why is it good that humans sometimes fall?
If the Jews hadn’t sinned with golden calf they would not have children?
Would Jews have become like angelic beings?
What is necessary for the messiah to come?
If the Jews hadn’t sinned with golden calf they would not have died?
If that’s true, why does Torah mention what happens when Jews die?
Why wasn’t it possible to nullify the decree of the angel of death?
Why did Jewish people accept the Torah?
Would it have been good for the Jews to stay in elevated state?
What is “death” in this context?
What are the conditions that are like death?
How do we know that a pauper, blind person, metzorah, childless person are like being dead?
What is relevance of “if only you can have a heart like this all the time”?
What was the manna?
Why did people hate it even though it was the highest quality food?
Why did Moses call them children of ingrates?
How do we know that people don’t understand Torah of their teachers for 40 years?
Why is it prohibited to sell three days before idolatrous holiday?
Can gentiles sacrifice an animal missing a limb as an offering?
How do we know that a treifa can’t be offered as a sacrifice?
What is relevance of whether a treifa can give birth?
Was Noah a treifa and what is relevance?
What does it mean that Noah was complete?

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

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