Category: Rabbi Gershon West’s Shiurim

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Begin on 47b, at the two dots on the second middle size line. Learn until the third line from bottom, amar Rav Yochanan. See tosfos dh mitzvah. The gemara says that a katan can be mitztaref to a mezuman in certain cases. How can a katan that cannot talk (mutal bearisah) be part of a mezuman? Perhaps in the meiri on the previous gemara that we saw there is an answer to this question. The gemara says that one can free a slave and trangress an asay for a “mitzvah derabbim”. What is the mitzvah derabbim here in the gemara? See tosfos dh mitzvah and Rosh siman 20 beginning from tanu rabanan until a few lines later velays hilchasah that discusses this point. On tosfos dh mitzvah, see Mahrsha that asks a question on tosfos. See Tzlach dh tosfos dh mitzvah in the first paragraph that answers the question. On the gemara that one who is in the first ten of a minyan receives the same schar as all those who come later, why is this so? See Mahrsha dh leolam.

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Begin on 47b, at the two dots on the second line, maaser sheini. Learn until the fifth wide line, veamar Rav Yehoshua. See tosfos dh amar Rav Huna. See Rosh siman 20 from the beginning of the piece until tanu Rabanan maaseh that discusses being mezaman with a am haaretz. See Meiri dh am haaretz gamur. See Shulchan Aruch siman 199 sif 3 with Mishna Brurah with Biur Halacha that discusses whether ine may be mezamen with someone that does aveiros.

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Begin on 47a, rav uShmuel haveh, 24 lines from the bottom of the amud. Learn until 47b, at the two dots achal tevel, on the second mid size line. See tosfos dh ilu, dh hilchasa and dh amar Rav Huna on amud beis. On the first gemara that discusses making a zimun with someone that joins at the very end, is this a chiyuv or voluntary? See Rabeinu Yonah at the beginning of the very first piece in the perek that brings a machlokes.  On the gemara that discusses not making a zimun with a am haretz, see Rosh at the beginning of siman 20. See Meiri on 47b dh am haretz gamur (on page 89). See the halacha in Mishnah Brurah siman 199 sif 3 with Mishnah Brurah and Biur Halacha dh am haretz.

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Begin on 47a, at the two dots halfway down the amud, tanu rabanan ayn onin. Learn until the two dots ten lines from the bottom, maaser rishon. See Rashi and tosfos dh amen, dh kol and dh ilu. Regarding Rashi and Tosfos’s question about amen yesomah from Alexandria, see Rabeinu Yonah on 34B dh ayn onen that says another answer to this question. See Rambam hilchos brachos perek 1 halacha 14 that alludes to an answer to this question. See Chidushei Reb Aryeh Leib cheilek 1 siman 5, specifically dh venireh dezeh, that explains the Rambam. On the gemara Rav and Shmuel that one can be mitztaref to a zimun as long as the two original members are still able to eat, is this a chiyuv zimun or a reshus? See Rashi dh achilnah and the first three lines of the first Rabeinu Yonah in the perek (32a dh shlosha). See also Biur halacha siman 197 sif 1 dh mitzaref.

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Begin on 46b, on the last line, tanu Rabanan. Learn until 47a, 15 lines from the bottom, achal demai. See tosfos dh ayn on 46b  and dh ayn on 47a until the third narrow line. Regarding the gemara that discusses being not being mechabed on derachim, see Rambam hilchos Brachos perek 7 halacha 12 that mentions kovod on entering a building but doesn’t mention kovod leaving the building. See the last line of the Kesef Mishna. See also Ohr Someach on this halacha of the Rambam that discusses this. Regarding the gemara that discusses not eating before the one who makes the bracha, what is the reason, is it because otherwise one will not be yotzei with the bracha, or because of derech eretz. After learning tosfos on 47a dh ayn there should be some clarity on this question.