Chapter 7, Mishna 1

Why don’t we eat the sciatic nerve?
Does it apply to both thighs?
What is relevance of 16th of Nisan?
Why does burning need to wait until day after Passover?
Why are sinews listed separately than the meat?
How are sinews of neck different from other sinews?
What are the two sciatic nerves and are they both forbidden?
What is punishment for eating sciatic nerve?
Does individual have to be forewarned about which thigh to incur lashes?
What happens in case of uncertain warning?
What if one is uncertain which of two men is his father, and he strikes or curses them?
What is relevance of who was stricken/cursed first?
What if he strikes them both simultaneously?
When is there punishment after uncertain forewarning?
Is there flogging if one leaves over sacrificial meat?
If one ate two sciatic nerves from thighs of two different animals, is he flogged twice as many times?
What if it’s two different thighs from same animal?
Why is right thigh more important?
Which thigh did angel touch when he grappled with Jacob?
What are self-defense methods taught in the Talmud?
Did angel look like Jew or non-Jew and what is relevance?
On which side should one be if he’s walking with his teacher?
What is relevance of phrase “then he wrestled with him?”
What happened to dust of their feet after wrestling match?
Why is it called the sciatic nerve?
How do we know that prohibition was extended to entire Jewish people?
Why was Jacob alone?
Why did he go back over the Jordan?
What is relevance of Chofetz Chaim story?
Why shouldn’t a Torah scholar go out of his home alone at night?
Why did sun set at different time in the place where Jacob had the dream of angels going up and down a ladder?
How did multiple stones become one stone?
How wide was the ladder?
How many angels were there?
What is example of dimension shifting?
Why are angels created?

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