1. Which brachah is dependent on how trustworthy another person is?
2. What may be done on Shabbos once but not twice?
3. When, according to certain Poskim, may you not answer “gezunterheit” or “tzum gezunt”?
4. How is it possible that two boys were born two weeks apart, and the bar mitzvah of the younger one will take place before the bar mitzvah of the older one?
5. How is it possible that a boy is born in one month and his bar mitzvah will be in a different month?
6. When is there a full month in which there are no bar mitzvahs?
7. How is it possible that if the person reading the megillah knows more languages than the listener, he cannot be motzi the listener?
8. Each letter in the aleph-beis corresponds to a certain number (aleph = 1, beis = 2, etc.) Which letter corresponds to 700?
9. On what day and year was Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka born?
10. When did the Rebbe begin Mivtza Yom Huledes?
General Topics
11. It is brought in seforim that the Difference between “אמת — truth” and “שקר — falsehood” is “קטן — small.” What does this mean?
12. How would it be possible for one son of a father to be a Kohen, and another son of the same father to be a Levi?
13. What is the meaning of the phrase written on the back of mezuza parchments: “כוזו במוכסז כוזו”? (שו"ע יו"ד סו"ס רפ"ח)
14. Through which way of writing “אהבה יראה — love and fear” can it be read twice?
It Can Thus Be Settled
1. If you hear good news from a trustworthy person, you make the brachah of Shehecheyanu (see Seder Birchas Hanehenin 12:8).
2. You may tie a single knot with two strings but not a double knot (Alter Rebbe’s Shulchan Aruch 317:3).
3. (1) During a meal (Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim 170:1). (2) In a Beis Midrash (Brachos 53a. Hilchos Talmud Torah of the Alter Rebbe, 4:11).
4. If the first boy was born on 25 Adar Rishon, and the second boy was born on 9 Adar Sheni.
5. The boy was born on the thirtieth of Cheshvan or Kislev when the month had thirty days. In the year of his bar mitzvah, if the month only has twenty-nine days, his bar mitzvah takes place on the first day of the next month.
6. If it is a leap year and thirteen years beforehand was a regular year, the bar mitzvahs of Adar take place in Adar Sheni, and Adar Rishon has no bar mitzvahs.
7. If a megillah is written in a foreign language, if both the baal korei and the listener do not know Hebrew but know that language, the baal korei may read the megillah in that language and they are both yotzei. But if the baal korei also knows Hebrew, he is not yotzei through reading in such a megillah, and he must read from a regular megillah. And since he is not yotzei, he is not motzi the listener either, even if the listener does not know Hebrew (Mishnah Berurah 690:33).
8. A final nun.
9. 25 Adar, 5661.
10. 25 Adar, 5748 (the Rebbetzin’s birthday).
11. Between the numerical value of “אמת — truth” (441) and “שקר — falsehood” (600), the difference is “קטן — small” (159). And obviously, the implication is clear: it is very easy to slip from saying the truth to saying falsehood, and one must be vigilant about this.
12. (1:) Moshe and Aharon. (2:) According to some opinions, a “Chalal” — a child born to a Kohen father from a mother which he may not marry — is considered a Levi. So if a Kohen father who transgressed in the above manner has another child from a woman he may marry, one of his sons will be a Kohen and the other will be a Levi.
13. This is a minhag (brought in Shulchan Aruch), so as to correspond to the words “'ה' אלוקינו ה” — switching each letter with the one which follows it.
14. If they are written above each other, the first 2 letters of יראה can conclude with the first 2 letters of אהבה — to spell יראה; and the last 2 letters of יראה can conclude with the last 2 letters of אהבה — to spell אהבה. Like this:
יר - אה
אה- בה
