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Why don't we distribute Ma'aser Rishon or Ma'aser 'Ani nowadays?
Produce grown in the Land of Israel has to have Teruma, two of three different kinds of Ma'aser, and Terumat Ma'aser removed, as described in this OU Kosher article. Of these five separations, three - ...
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When is one allowed to eat a fruit from Eretz Yisroel without giving trumah?
When is one allowed to eat a fruit from Eretz Yisroel without giving trumah?
When I was in Israel we picked pomegranates directly off the trees and eat them. I was told this was okay because it had ...
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Does kashrut depend on peah, leket, etc?
I understand that if a crop in the Land of Israel does not have the trumot and maaserot properly separated, then the produce is tevel and cannot be eaten (until it is done).
But that made me think of ...
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Giving ma'aser to a kohen
When one separates the "first tithe", which needs to be given to a ben Levi, may he give it to a kohen instead on the grounds that he is of Levi lineage?
Would this at least work b'di'avad to relieve ...
