Questions tagged [bikkurim-first-fruits]
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What does, 'A wandering Aramean was my father' mean in Dt 26:5?
What does, 'A wandering Aramean was my father' mean in Dt 26:5?
Why was this response required to be made before the LORD?
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Why are these korbanos waved?
A few offerings are waved (moved upward, downward, back, and forth) as a part of the process of offering them. If I'm not mistaken, the following is a complete list:
The asham of the m'tzora, while ...
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How practically did large farmers manage presenting their bikkurim?
The minimum shiur for bikkurim miderabbonon is one-sixtieth - see the answer to this question.
One sixtieth of the harvest for a farmer of a sizable farm would be difficult to fit into even seven ...
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Why can a convert say mikra bikkurim but not viduy maaser?
Maaser Sheini 5:14 says that a convert can't say viduy maaser because he doesn't inherit a portion of the Land and can't say ואת האדמה אשר נתת לנו. We follow this mishnah.
Bikkurim 1:4 says that a ...
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How to collect Bikurim practically?
So we know that Bikurim was collected by tying a reed to the first fruit of a particular field when it would be found budding. We also know that Chazal say to give one 60th of one's produce as ...
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Why cannot a convert make certain statements? I feel they are being pushed away at the same time respect is being given to them
It is stated that a convert is in the same regard considered a Jew as a native born. Rashi on Dvarim 26:11 states that a convert cannot recite the declaration כי באתי אל הארץ נשמע ה׳ לאבתינו לתת לנו. ...
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Bikkurim Baskets
Why do the poor have to give away their wicker baskets yet the rich get back their gold baskets and I know the Gemara says this proves that wealth goes to wealth and poor goes to poor but why IS THE ...
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Who used the "Special seven tiered baskets" that "were employed to display the firstfruits"?
The Temple Institute wrote,
"Likewise, pilgrims brought the firstfruits from their own fields and
orchards, of the seven fruits of the land of Israel mentioned in
Deuteronomy: Figs, grapes, ...
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How much produce becomes bikkurim (first fruits)?
How much produce becomes bikkurim (first fruits)?
Rambam says: Hilchos Bikkurim Chap 2
Halacha 19 How should one separate the first fruits? A person descends
to his field, sees a fig tree, a ...
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