A person throws a stone into a public domain and it kills someone. Into which category does this fall?
Halacha 6 classifies throwing into the public domain as near-willful (karov le-meizid) because the actor should have checked the area first before throwing or demolishing.
Question 2
A butcher raises his cleaver backward and someone dies as it passes through the backswing (going up behind him). Is he exiled?
Halacha 14 establishes the principle: exile applies only when death occurs during descent (downward motion). The backswing going up behind the butcher is not a descent, so no exile is required.
Question 3
A person had a stone in his cloak, was aware of it, forgot about it, stood up, and the stone fell killing someone. What is his status?
Halacha 16 rules that prior knowledge ('unintentional' implies a prior state of knowledge) makes forgetting the stone's presence a form of negligence that requires exile.
Question 4
Someone is killed by a freak accident so extraordinary it almost never happens. The blood redeemer kills the killer. What is the blood redeemer's status?
Halacha 3 states that the 'near-compulsion' category killer is exempt from exile; if the blood redeemer kills such a person, the blood redeemer is executed for murder.
Question 5
A man was climbing a ladder and a rung slipped from under his feet, flew off and killed someone below. Is he exiled?
Halacha 15 explains that a rung slipping upward from under the foot is not a downward descent from his own force — it is near-compulsion, exempting him from exile.