Questions tagged [teruma]
terumah, a portion of crops given to kohanim
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Widow of a Cohen allowed to eat truma?
Does the widow of a Cohen keep the right to eat terumah if they had a child (Cohen) together?
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Why doesn't the percentage of terumas maaser mimic terumah gedolah's?
The Torah (Bamidbar 18) says that maaser rishon is meant to compensate the leviyim for their work and is treated precisely as their portion in the land and therefore is obligated in terumah and is ...
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Why is Maaser greater than Terumah?
Why does the Levi get more tithes of a field than the Kohen? Or in other words, why is Maaser Rishon so much larger than Trumah Gedolah?
Even if the Levi gave his Terumas Maaser to the Kohen that got ...
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Are hydroponics obligated in Maaser and Terumah
According to Halacha, are crops grown in hydroponics in Eretz Yisrael obligated in the laws of Terumah and Maaser? Or no, since it is grown off the ground in hydroponics systems is it exempt?
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Other cases in which an animal gets some status of its owner?
An animal belonging to a kohen can eat Terumah.
Can a poor person's animal eat Maaser Ani?
If one owns an animal in Jeruslaem, may it consume Maaser Sheni?
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How is it concluded from Yerushalmi Shevi'it 6:1 that Rabbi Yishmael b'Rabbi Yosei was a kohen?
I heard a number of months ago that it can be concluded from Yerushalmi Shevi'it 6:1 that Rabbi Yishmael b'Rabbi Yosei was a kohen (this topic in itself is debated, see a short summary in his Hebrew ...
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Is Maaser Rishon Calculated Based on Quality or Quantity
Regarding the law of tithing produce, that after giving Terumah the produce is still Tevel until a tenth of the remainder is given to the Levi.
If someone had 100 stalks remaining after giving Terumah,...
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What can be done with the terumos and maasros?
It says at Star-K that after taking off terumot and maasrot one should wrap the vegetation in plastic and discard:
"Wrap the broken or cut-off piece in plastic and discard."
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Is indirect "benefit" (Hana'ah) also forbidden?
Some things are forbidden via halacha in local terms, such as eating, but some things are so forbidden that we may not derive hana'ah, benefit from them in any way. Chameitz She'avar alav HaPesach, ...
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Retrieving fallen produce while washing your hands in a stream
In Machshirin 4:7, we learn:
פֵּרוֹת שֶׁנָּפְלוּ לְתוֹךְ אַמַּת הַמַּיִם, פָּשַׁט מִי שֶׁהָיוּ יָדָיו טְמֵאוֹת וּנְטָלָן, יָדָיו טְהוֹרוֹת וְהַפֵּרוֹת טְהוֹרִים. וְאִם חָשַׁב שֶׁיּוּדְחוּ יָדָיו, ...
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Why does dough containing a small amount of terumah become exempt from challah?
Challah 3:1:
נִדְמְעָה עִסָּתָהּ עַד שֶׁלֹּא גִלְגְּלָה, פְּטוּרָה, שֶׁהַמְּדֻמָּע פָּטוּר.
Dough which became medumma [became mixed with terumah comprising more than one-hundredth of its ...
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How can we be lenient in a case of mixed up teruma?
The Mishna (Terumot 7:5) says:
שְׁתֵּי קֻפּוֹת, אַחַת שֶׁל תְּרוּמָה וְאַחַת שֶׁל חֻלִּין, שֶׁנָּפְלָה סְאָה תְרוּמָה לְתוֹךְ אַחַת מֵהֶן וְאֵין יָדוּעַ לְאֵיזוֹ מֵהֶן נָפְלָה, הֲרֵי אֲנִי אוֹמֵר, ...
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Circular reasoning in deriving the time that kohanim can eat terumah and the time that the evening Shema can be recited
The very first Mishnah (Berachot 1:1) states that the earliest time for the recitation of the evening Shema is the time that kohanim can eat terumah:
מאימתי קורין את שמע בערבין משעה שהכהנים נכנסים ...
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Why don't kohanim eat terumah nowadays?
Terumah is a tithe that is given to kohanim. I have been told that kohanim are not allowed to eat terumah nowadays. Is this true? If so, why not?
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Environmentally friendly tithe disposal
Being born in the galut, I'm not well acquainted with the laws of tithing. However, I'll need to spend some time in Israel, therefore I started to read about it. As OU's guide says, one should wrap ...
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consequences of minor tumah nowadays
In a comment on this question that is now deleted, DoubleAA said something to the effect of
Yes you become impure by sitting on the seat, but anyone who needs to care about the consequences of ...
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Why would one use a Shilling for Terumah?
In my siddur -- Siddur Tefillah Hashalem (Greenwald), page 162 has a text for separating terumah and ma'aser. In the instructions, if my understanding is correct, the text seems to require using a ...
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Bikkurim 2:2 vs. Maaser Sheini 5:10
Bikkurim 2:2:
יֵשׁ בְּמַעֲשֵׂר וּבִכּוּרִים מַה שֶּׁאֵין כֵּן בַּתְּרוּמָה, שֶׁהַמַּעֲשֵׂר וְהַבִּכּוּרִים טְעוּנִים הֲבָאַת מָקוֹם, וּטְעוּנִים וִדּוּי, וַאֲסוּרִין לָאוֹנֵן. רַבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן ...
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Meiruach through a side door
There is a concept that ma’aser is only required once Meiruach (literally, “smoothing”) is performed on the crop (Peah 1:6 et. al.), at which point the crop is complete and eligible for taking Ma’aser ...
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What is תרומת הדשן?
Between mincha and ma'ariv a few days ago, the shul rav discussed the beginning of this week's parsha, parshat Tzav. He mentioned that the Cohen takes the ashes and places it on the side of the altar. ...
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Why take t'ruma? Aren't people trusted to do so?
I don't know much about hilchos z'raim (agriculture-related law), but from the mishnayos I recall as follows: If one acquires produce from someone who cannot be trusted to tithe, then he must take the ...
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Brachah on Tefillin, Mezuzah, and Terumah [closed]
When sitting in the Sukkah, we make a brachah of "leishev baSukkah," reflective of the passuk of "basukkos teishvu shiv'as yamim" (Vayikra 23).
Similarly, when putting up a ma'akeh, we make a brachah ...
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How can one eat non-certified kosher Israeli produce?
In Israel, there are many stores that are not certified kosher that sell produce grown in Israel. What is the procedure for taking teruma and maaser, and is there anything else a buyer would need to ...
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What's the difference between יאכלו נקודים and יתחלקו לעסות (in תרומות פ״ה)?
A few משניות in chapter 5 of מסכת תרומות discuss טמא wheat kernels that got mixed with טהור ones that never became מוכשרים לקבל טומאה. They say that, to avoid making the טהור ones טמא, we do one of ...
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Is a bat kohen who has relations with a pasul (not marries) then forbidden from t'rumah?
Is a bat kohen who has relations with a pasul (not marries) then forbidden from t'rumah? I ask this because I'm having trouble understanding Noam Yerushalmi's explanation of Yerushalmi Yevamot 8:6 in ...
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Terumah for non-Kohanim
Let's say I, as a Kohen, would receive terumah.
Would it be permissible for me to give the terumah which I have received to the poor so that they may consume it despite not being kohanim?
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What are the three Terumots?
In Yirmiyahu 2:3 there is a Mahari Kra that attempts to explain what the words "Reshit Tebu'ato" ("רֵאשִׁית תְּבוּאָתֹה") are regarding. One of the things he mentions were the three terumot. What are ...
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Explanation of obscure Rashi (שבת דף יד)
The Bavli, Shabas 13 amud 2, quotes a mishna in Zavin that lists some people and things that, by touching t'ruma, invalidate it so that it cannot be eaten. The Bavli says that these restrictions were ...
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Can one use terumah to light a stove?
In Pesachim 23a, the gemara (in the name of Rav Papa) derives from Numbers 18:27 that the prohibition of terumah to non-priests only applies to eating and drinking, but not to other forms of enjoyment....
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Formulation of blessing on individual tithes
When separating all the relevant tithes from one's produce, one can include all the various obligations in one collective blessing before the entire process (Tosefta Brachot 6:19 (note variant ...
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The purity of non-priests, non-Jews and non-humans who eat terumah
Not only can kohanim consume terumah, but they may feed it to their wives, their daughters, their Canaanite slaves and their livestock (cf: Rambam, Hilkhot Terumot 6:1 and 3). So far as their own ...
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Mishna Demai 5:11: why can't you take teruma from vadai on demai?
(Lomdus alert: this question is not for beginners.)
In Maseches Demai (5:10-11) we learn that taking teruma from a vadai (=untithed produce) on demai (=possibly untithed produce) does not work, even ...
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Invalidating women from the priesthood and from terumah
In Yevamot 6:2, we are told that one who has sexual intercourse with various types of women will "invalidate" them. The language is as follows:
וכן הבא על אחת מכל העריות שבתורה או פסולות כגון אלמנה ...
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