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  • Chapter 2, Mishna 6 Does eating third-degree impure food make us impure for sacrificial food?Is teruma-level purity considered impure for sacrificial food?Does teruma-level purity make produce impure for sacrificial food?Can teruma make sacrificial food impure?How many levels of impurity are …

  • Chapter 2, Mishna 6 What is second-degree impurity?Can impure hands touch meat bought with second-tithe money?Can impure hands make ordinary food impure?Do hands become impure when inserted through the doorway an impure house (with tzaraas)?Can second-degree impurity make non-sacred food …

  • Chapter 2, Mishna 4, 5, 6 What happens if act of slaughter is interrupted?What if it’s just a momentary pause?How much of a pause before slaughter is invalidated?What is interval equivalent to duration of an act of slaughter?What is difference …

  • Chapter 2, Mishna 2, 3 If two animals are slaughtered simultaneously, is the slaughter valid?What if two people are holding knife and slaughtering one animal?What are correct and incorrect slicing motions?What if two heads are decapitated in one motion?What is …

  • Chapter 2, Mishna 1 When does a red heifer begin to impart impurity?Does shechita take effect only when the slaughter is completed?Can two people slaughter one offering together?How do we know that two people may not slaughter one offering together?When …

  • Chapter 2, Mishna 1 Why does Rabbi Yehuda require cutting the veins?Is cutting the veins part of shechita?Must the veins be cut during shechita or can it be done afterward?Is cutting half a siman enough for shechita?If something is split …

  • Chapter 2, Mishna 1 Is the requirement to slaughter from the neck learned by tradition rather than from a verse?What does “And you shall slaughter” teach if the neck requirement is already traditional?How does Rabbi Yishmael derive that slaughter must …

  • Chapter 1, Mishna 15-18, Chapter 2, Mishna 1 What can and can’t you spend second tithe money on?What is temed?When does temed have legal status of wine?Can it be purchased with second tithe produce?Why can’t second tithe be used for …

  • Chapter 1, Mishna 11-14 What is element with which priests are unfit and levites fit? Vice versa?What disqualification pertains to Levites?What disqualification pertains to priests?Who is disqualified due to blemish, and who to passage of years?What service did Levites perform …

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