December

Question 1

מד

Answer 1

From the fact that, since

Question 2

אתא

Answer 2

he came, it came(to teach), it was derived

Question 3

נפקא ליה מ…

Answer 3

he derives it from…

Question 4

אי

Answer 4

1 alas! woe!
2 Not
3 if

Question 5

מתיב

Answer 5

introduces a difficulty that one amora poses against a halakha of another amora. The difficulty is based on a mishnah, baraitha, or a pasuk.

Question 6

מאי איכא למימר

Answer 6

What is there to say? Rhetorical question used at the end of a sentence to point out a difficulty.

Question 7

אחד…אחד

Answer 7

Both x and y

one way… and another way

Question 8

פרט

Answer 8

he stated explicitly

a specific item or detail

Question 9

נבילה

Answer 9

A carcass of a large animal that we are forbidden to eat. It can be
a kosher animal that died of natural causes or improper schita.
A non kosher animal (Shoshana doesn’t know this)

Question 10

דתניא

Answer 10

It is taught (usually by a tanna)

Question 11

אין לי אלא…מנין

Answer 11

Presents a difficulty

“I have only established x… where can I derive point y?”

Question 12

איתמר

Answer 12

“It was stated” Introduces the words of an amora or a controversy between two amoraim.

Question 13

אשכח

Answer 13

he found

Question 14

אימור

Answer 14

“One could say” Introduces an interpretation that serves as a tentative resolution of an argument

Question 15

היכי דמי

Answer 15

היכי = how? in what manner?

1) what is the case of which the text is speaking?…may or may not intro a difficulty
2) What is the case?… intro’s a difficulty..

Question 16

הכי

Answer 16

In this manner

Question 17

דידך

Answer 17

of yours, yours