פרקים א-ג

Question 1

What happens if the store owner remembers which person he sold the item to?

Answer 1

You give it to that person

Question 2

Why are people nervous to make a shevua?

Answer 2

If they break it they are scared to deal with hashem

Question 3

Why can’t two people split the item (or the value of the item) without swearing?

Answer 3

Everyone will start lying

Question 4

What is the halacha in a case where A says, “It’s all mine”, and B says, “It’s half mine”?

Answer 4

They split it 25 and 75 and they swear on gods name

Question 5

What is the halacha if two people agree that they both got on to an ownerless animal at the same time?

Answer 5

They split it

Question 6

What happens if the two people disagree and both say, “It’s all mine”, but there are witnesses that say they got on the animal at the same time?

Answer 6

Listen to the witnesses

Question 7

Explain the way a person needs to tell another person to pick up an item for him if he wishes to acquire it.

Answer 7

You have to say can you pick this item up I want acquire it

Question 8

What is a way that the man can say it where it won’t work and someone else can pick it up for themselves?

Answer 8

Pick it up

Question 9

Can one fall on an item to acquire it?

Answer 9

No

Question 10

Explain when a person can have his field acquire an animal for himself and when he can’t.

Answer 10

If the animal is injured and it walks your field and you say my field acquires this animal then it works.

Question 11

Name three people that acquire an item and it goes to the husband/father/owner, and 3 people that acquire an item and it goes to themselves.

Answer 11

Someone under bar mitzvah, a non Jewish slave or a wife goes to the husband. If they’re over bar mitzvah, Jewish slave or divorced they keep it.

Question 12

Name 2 documents that need to be returned to the author as opposed to the person that it says in the document

Answer 12

A divorced document and a will

Question 13

Why do those 2 documents need to be returned to the author as opposed to the person that is says in the document?

Answer 13

Because maybe the person will change his mind

Question 14

Name 1 document that is returned to the person it says in the document.

Answer 14

A court document

Question 15

Why aren’t we worried that the author changed their mind?

Answer 15

Because the judge who wrote it won’t change his mind

Question 16

What is a shinui?

Answer 16

A change in a item

Question 17

What is the halacha about a brand new item that you found? Why?

Answer 17

You can keep it because there is no sign it being someone else’s

Question 18

Why don’t you have to announce bread of a baker that you found

Answer 18

Because all bakery bread looks the same

Question 19

Name an item that you have to announce?

Answer 19

A PS4 controller of controller

Question 20

Why should you take a computer that is on top of a pile of dirt and announce it?

Answer 20

Because someone might take it

Question 21

What happens if you find a pair of sunglasses on the cashier’s desk?

Answer 21

If it’s on the desk you give it the store if it’s not on the desk you keep it

Question 22

What is yeiush?

Answer 22

To give up hope

Question 23

Translate: Hamafkid-

Answer 23

One who give over

Question 24

Why is the word “donkey” specifically said in the passuk talking about returning lost objects?

Answer 24

To teach you that when you find an item that is similar to a donkey, you need to announce the it. For example, a sign on a donkey=a sign on an item.

Question 25

What are the 2 opinions as to how long you need to announce an item for until you can keep it?

Answer 25

7 days after the shelosh regalim and other opinion says until the neighbors hear about it

Question 26

Explain why 7 days.

Answer 26

3 days to go home 3 days to yerushalim 1 to look for it

Question 27

What is a ramai?

Answer 27

A trickster

Question 28

How is a ramai different than other people when it comes to them claiming a lost object?

Answer 28

You have ask the more questions

Question 29

Why are you allowed to use the milk from a cow in order to sell it so you can feed the animal?

Answer 29

Because otherwise you would never want to have the cow

Question 30

What should you do with an item that will go bad by the end of the time you need to announce it (cake)?

Answer 30

You can eat it and pay the owner or you can sell it and give the money to the owner

Question 31

What do you need to do to clothing and books in order to take care of them while watching them?

Answer 31

Shake them every 30 days

Question 32

When can you use gold vessels that you found?

Answer 32

NEVER!

Question 33

When can you use silver vessels that you found?

Answer 33

You can only use it for its own good

Question 34

Where is a cow considered a lost object that you can keep?

Answer 34

In a vineyard

Question 35

What do we learn from the passuk, “Return, return (the lost object) to him”?

Answer 35

Every time the guy loses something the other guy needs to keep returning it

Question 36

If a person loses money because he skips work in order to watch your object and wishes to get repaid for his missed time at work, what happens?

Answer 36

Pay minimum wage

Question 37

Why?

Answer 37

Because it’s not fair if a rich guy finds the item

Question 38

If your father tells you to do something (kibud av va’em) against the Torah, what do you do? Why?

Answer 38

No because you listen to the torah not you father

Question 39

Name the 4 Shomrim in Hebrew and English.

Answer 39

Shomer chinam- free watcher
Shomer sachar- paid watcher
Shoel - Borrower
Socher- Renter

Question 40

If someone rents a cow and lends it to his friend who pays

Answer 40

The borrower pays the renter

Question 41

If someone person admits of stealing 100$ and he forgets which one to pay

Answer 41

The answer is both get 100

Question 42

What happens you are watching fruit and it spoils

Answer 42

One option says don’t touch it the other option says you can sell it and pay the person back