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  • Chapter 5, Mishna 8 How much wine that used as a libation can fall into permitted wine before the mixture becomes prohibited?How does this differ if we’re mixing wine and water?How does this differ if we’re talking about sacred produce …

  • Chapter 5, Mishna 4, 5, 6, 7 If a gential army occupies a Jewish city, do we assume they poured the Jews’ wine as a libation and render it prohibited?If a gentile sent wine to a Jewish craftsman as his …

  • Chapter 5, Mishna 3 A series of incidents in which an idolator is found among barrels of wine belonging to Jews – does the wine become prohibited?How does this relate to the laws of ritual purity when an ignoramus has …

  • Chapter 5, Mishna 3 Should we be suspicious of gentile who has access to a Jew’s wine?To what extent are there mixed concerns?What is relevance of how far away the Jew went, and for how long while gentile has access …

  • Chapter 5, Mishna 2 What if forbidden food at first enhanced the flavor of permitted food, but then detracted from flavor?What sacred and nonsacred leaven fell into dough?What if forbidden vinegar fell into beans?What if mouse fell into barrel of …

  • Chapter 5, Mishna 2 Can a Jew smell wine used in idolatry?If gentile smells a Jew’s wine, is the wine forbidden?Is smell a form of consumption?Is bread prohibited to non-priest because it has absorbed flavor of cumin being burned?What is …

  • Chapter 5, Mishna 1, 2 When can Jewish laborer keep wages from working for idolator?Why is it different if it’s “toward evening” re when he worked with prohibited substance?Can a Jew rent out his donkey to transport something for idolatry?Can …

  • Chapter 5, Mishna 1 If gentile hired Jew to break barrels of wine used for idolatry, can the jew keep his wage?Can a Jew plant wheat (diverse kinds) in a gentile’s vineyard?Can a Jew uproot wheat in a gentile’s vineyard?Does …

  • Chapter 5, Mishna 1 Are prostitutes prohibited from bringing animal to Temple as an offering?What is relevance of produce of shmitta year and getting rid of wine of idolators?If man paid prostitute but didn’t engage in intercourse or vice versa, …

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