02+Brachot+1_1

=UNIT 2 - Brachot 1:1=



From when may one recite the Shema in the evening? From the time when the Kohanim go in to eat their terumah. Until the end of the first watch – says Rabbi Eliezer. And the Sages say: Until midnight. Rabban Gamliel says: Until the break of dawn. A story: His [Rabban Gamliel’s] sons came from a [wedding] house of feasting. They said to [their father]: "We have not recited the Shema." He said to them: "If dawn has not broken, you are obligated to recite it." “And not only this, but, in all cases where the Sages said that [some Mitzvah can be performed only] until midnight — the Mitzvah [can still be done] until the break of dawn. If that is so, why did the Sages say, "until midnight"? To distance a person from transgression.

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Click here to download worksheet 1: [| Worksheet 1 Brachot 1_1.pdf] (Beginning of Mishnah) Click here to download worksheet 2: [|Worksheet 2 Brachot 1_1.pdf] (Review Questions on opening of Mishnah) Click here to download worksheet 3: [|Worksheet 3 Brachot 1_1.pdf] (Finishing Mishnah and discussion of reason of the machloket) Click here to download worksheet 4: [|Worksheet 4 Brachot 1_1.pdf] (Discover the main machloket in the Mishnah) Click here to download worksheet 5: [|Worksheet 5 Brachot 1_1.pdf] (Explore other tanaitic texts about the Shema) Click here for Assignment Worksheet

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__**The Halachic Day**__

A halachic day is made up of 12 hours day time, and 12 hours night time. To find out how long a halachic hour is you need to find the total number of minutes of day light (sunrise to sundown) and divide it by 12.

2. If sunrise is at 7am, and sunset it at 5pm then how many minutes are there in a halachic hour?

3. If sunrise is at 5am, and sunset is at 9pm then hour many minutes are there in a halachic hour?

4.Go to: [|Chabad Halachic Times] to find out when sunrise is, and when sunset was today. Calculate how many minutes are in a halachic hour.

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//__**Unit 2 Brachot 1:1**__// //__**Worksheet 2**__//

//__**Did you understand the Mishnah?**__//

1. What is the question of this Mishnah?

2. Why did the kohen have to wait until he could eat his terumah?

3. What is terumah? (be specific about the amount)

4. What do all the Rabbis agree on?

5. What do all the Rabbis in this Mishnah disagree about?

//6. From when// can you say the Shema?

7. What time is that?

//8. Until when// can you say the evening shema? (fill in table)


 * || Whose Opinion || Until when (name given in Mishnah) || Until when (time in halachic hours) ||
 * a ||  ||   ||   ||
 * b ||  ||   ||   ||
 * c ||  ||   ||   ||

9. What is the אַשְׁמוּרָה הָרִאשׁוֹנָה ?

10. What is עַמּוּד הַשָּׁחַר ?

11. Why might there be a machloket?