Chapter 1, Mishna 8

How did Rabbi Meir rescue his sister-in-law (daughter of Rabbi Hanania ben Teradyon) from enslavement in Roman brothel?
How did Rabbi Meir escape capture by the Romans?
Is it OK for a Jew to go to Roman circus or another kind of entertaining show?
What do we learn from Psalm 1:1?
What are the statements about a camp of besiegers and what is relevance?
Why do some sages forbid going to stadiums and other sages allow it?
What is the seat of the scornful?
What will happen to a scoffer?
What are different kinds of scoffing?
What is a “day of wrath”?
What bad things are caused by scoffing?
Who is referred to in Psalm 1, “does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, does not etc…”?
Why does verse speak of a man – doesn’t it apply to woman also?
What’s the reward for performing a mitzvah?
What’s the best way to learn Torah?
What does it mean that one’s delight is in the Torah of the Lord?
How does one delight in the Torah?
What does it mean that Torah calls to people upon the highest places of the city?
What does it mean that one should produce running water from his own cistern?
What does it mean that wealth gotten by vanity, his knowledge will diminish?
What is the relevance of cunning hunter?
What kind of tree is a Torah scholar compared to?
How should one’s time be divided?

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

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