1. Why, do you think, should the declaration made at the time of the Bringing of the First Fruits be spoken, word for word, as a central part of the Pessach Seder?
2. Is the Mitzvah of Bringing the First Fruits a Mitzvah incumbent upon the individual farmer or is it a National Mitzvah, or what?
3. What is bound to be the result of the law that allows Maaser Shayni produce to be eaten — or the money of Maasser Shayni to be spent — only in Yerushalaim and only on food and drink for the farmer and his family and friends?
4. What is bound to be the result for the city of Yerushalaim of the Great Sanhedrin being situated within the Beis HaMikdash complex?
5. What is the purpose, do you think, of setting up the Twelve Steles with the essence of the Torah inscribed on the seventy faces of those steles (six faces to each stele) in the seventy main languages that were in use at the time that we took possession of Erets Yisroel and for whom, do you think, are these translations intended?
6. Why, do you think, is it so important that this colossal undertaking of setting up these Twelve Steles shall be done on the very day that we came into Erets Yisroel to take possession of the Land?
7. Why, do you think, was it necessary for Mosheh our Teacher to warn us so dramatically of the consequences of our wandering off the path of the Torah and Mitzvos just at the time when we were about to take possession of the Land? After all, he has warned us a number of times before, so why just now, again? What change in circumstances was Mosheh our Teacher worried about?
8. What other grand ceremony was to be carried out on the very day that we came into Erets Yisroel to take possession of the Land and what does that teach us?
9. Can you see a connexion between that ceremony and the command to set up the Twelve Steles?
10. The warnings by Mosheh our Teacher of the calamities that will befall us if we should desert HaShem and His Torah do clearly tell that these calamities will indeed be most terrible. But what is definitely NOT the purpose of these calamities?
11. In the midst of all these warnings, what positive promise of HaShem to us for good and for all time does Mosheh tell us?
12. For the last two thousand years or so, many people who follow the dominant Religion of Love of the western world have criticised the wealth, real or imagined, of the Jewish People or have otherwise questioned it. Besides simple jealousy, why do you think this is so?
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