Maaser - Maasros

donation of ten percent of produce to a Levi

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  • ‘take 20 of my figs’ as compared to ‘take a basketful of figs’ in regard to tithing obligations and monetary law

  • agent to deduct tithes compared to an agent to set up an eruv techumin for Shabbos in regard to trust

  • almonds, bitter, sweet, maaser obligation

  • am haaretz gifted figs, recipient’s maaser obligations based on the language of the gifting and other factors

  • am haaretz gives figs to a people in house or gate owned by one of them, bringing into his house causes tithe obligation?

  • barley, wheat, shelling by hand, maaser obligation or exempt depending on exactly how it is done

  • barter as a form of purchase, does barter create a tithe obligation?

    • Perek / Halacha: Maasros 2:4
    • Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 18a 20b
    • Vilna Shas: 11a 12a
    • Academy of Hebrew Language: 272
    • Venice / Bomberg: 49c 50a-b
  • buying fruit still attached to be chosen one by one by the buyer, choosing many that are still attached, exempt from tithes?

  • buying produce with Torah granted rights (eating while working) doesn’t cause an obligation of tithes, parameters of rights to pick and eat while working

    • Perek / Halacha: Maasros 2:4
    • Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 18a 18b-20b
    • Vilna Shas: 11a 11a-12a
    • Academy of Hebrew Language: 271-2
    • Venice / Bomberg: 49c 50a
  • chaver (and surely an am haaretz) who sent olives from a vat, saplings, or fenugreek needs to deduct all tithes

  • dates, figs, partially processed bought from an am haaretz, may he eat them casually? treated as demo? tevel?

  • designated as hekdesh and redeemed prior to or after maaser obligation took effect, or in hekdesh possession when maaser obligation took effect, what is the maaser obligation and at what stage of growth does the obligation begin?

  • divided in thirds, one part to kohanim and levied, one third to the temple treasury, one third to the poor and Torah scholars

  • does premature deduction of terumah trigger restrictions or further tithing obligations on the produce?

    • Perek / Halacha: Maasros 2:3
    • Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 16a 16a-b
    • Vilna Shas: 9b 9b-10a
    • Academy of Hebrew Language: 270
    • Venice / Bomberg: 49b-c 49d
  • Egyptian bean, six rules

  • fig tree in courtyard, branch in garden, may eat, exempt from tithe, tree in garden, branch in courtyard, may eat one at a time, where was the man standing? did he pick them with a pole while standing in a different domain?

  • figs brought to courtyard, to be dried, children wife household may eat, may owner eat? why wife different than workers?

  • figs to be dried (work not completed), brought onto courtyard (usually signals maaser obligation), children and workers eat?

  • found figs, carob, olives, dried figs, on road, between fields, keep them? obligated to tithe? feeding animals carob from roof

  • gifting produce doesn’t cause a tithe obligation, selling does, variations of gifting and selling

  • greatness and power over divine decrees by the ones who give maaser

  • grew one third in unperforated flower pot, then in perforated, obligated in maaser?

  • hekdesh treasurer smoothed the pile of grain after it was donated, an act usually done by the owner, is his act recognized?

  • hevker produce exempt from tithes, found produce in a basket not exempt and must be returned to owner, eat and repay or sell to preserve the owner’s interests, tevel or demo?

  • houses, buildings, structures, huts, porches, rooftops which triggers a maaser obligation when produce is brought there

    • Perek / Halacha: Maasros 3:3
    • Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 27a-28a 28b
    • Vilna Shas: 16a-b 16b
    • Academy of Hebrew Language: 275
    • Venice / Bomberg: 50b 50d
  • how to change the status of a courtyard to no longer be considered a courtyard in regard to the laws of maaser

  • impurity of foreign lands, obligation of maaser, shemittah, on border, beyond border towns,, questions, stories

  • inedible seeds not subject to maaser, may be bought from anyone, even if seeds that produced these plants were terumah

  • kernels of grain found in ant tunnels near a pile of grains that are obligated in maaser, are also obligated in maaser

    • Perek / Halacha: Maasros 5:3
    • Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 44a 44b-45a
    • Vilna Shas: 24b 25a-b
    • Academy of Hebrew Language: 282
    • Venice / Bomberg: 51c 52a
  • maaser obligation for a Jew who bought a field from a non Jew in Suria, compared to grain partially grown in shemittah year, partially grown while ownerless, hekdesh, owned by non Jew, in roofed house,

    • Perek / Halacha: Maasros 5:2
    • Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 41b 42a-43a
    • Vilna Shas: 23a 23a-24a
    • Academy of Hebrew Language: 281
    • Venice / Bomberg: 51c 51d
  • may maaser be given to a kohen?

  • mitzvah for a fruit to be obligated in maaser, and mitzvah of esrog may have two different standards

  • mushrooms and truffles not considered produce of the land

  • obligation for maaser is for food, protected, and grown from the ground, matured, or food eaten prior to maturity, source

  • one may eat a full cluster of grapes that grew in a courtyard according to Rabbi Tarpon, reason

  • onion planted, maaser taken off, replanted, onion grew more, maaser due on the whole onion again

  • ownerless produce exempt from maaser

  • passes through a courtyard, tithe obligation? picked produce before Shabbos to eat after Shabbos, tithe obligation?

  • planted in a box or took root in an attic, laws of impurity, shemittah, maaser, shabbos

  • plants that produce more than one edible part, maaser obligation for each? intent for use of plant changed

  • produce (but not the land) of Suria owned by Jew, sharecropper, what is his maaser obligation?

  • produce becomes level and therefore obligated in maaser, pickling, cooking, salting, squeezing and collecting oil in one’s hand, skimming wine in a cooked pot, purchased, separating terumah, Shabbos food, entering a protected courtyard

  • produce grown in courtyard, ate at top of tree, figs fell into courtyard, branches or roots inside courtyard or inside Israel, the rest outside

    • Perek / Halacha: Maasros 3:4
    • Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 28b-29a 29b-30a
    • Vilna Shas: 16b-17a 17a
    • Academy of Hebrew Language: 276
    • Venice / Bomberg: 50b
  • produce grown in overseas soil from that was brought into Israel, obligated in maaser, shemittah, challah?

  • produce that only grows outside of Israel is exempt from maaser, and may be bought from anyone

  • products that are harvested late for the purpose of growing more seeds, but not food, or just for food

  • proper order of tithes, bikkurim, terumah, maaser, maaser sheni, lashes for deviating from this order?

  • purchased figs or brought them into a courtyard, then wants them one at a time, tithes obligated?

  • rebuke those who try to circumvent tithe obligations

  • replanting saplings, turnips, radishes, onions, wheat kernels

  • restriction on selling attached produce to untrustworthy people when maaser stage is reached

    • Perek / Halacha: Maasros 5:2
    • Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 41a 41b-42a
    • Vilna Shas: 22b 23a
    • Academy of Hebrew Language: 280
    • Venice / Bomberg: 51c 51d
  • restriction on selling straw, olive residue, grape skins to an untrustworthy person, separating maaser for extracted juice

    • Perek / Halacha: Maasros 5:2
    • Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 41a-b 42a
    • Vilna Shas: 22b-23a
    • Academy of Hebrew Language: 280-1
    • Venice / Bomberg: 51c 51d
  • sale of produce triggers an obligation to tithe?

  • salting creates tevel and therefore obligates maaser

    • Perek / Halacha: Maasros 4:2
    • Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 34a 35a-b
    • Vilna Shas: 19a 19b
    • Academy of Hebrew Language: 278
    • Venice / Bomberg: 51a 51b
  • shabbos food creates tevel and therefore obligates maaser, actions of children creating a maaser obligation

    • Perek / Halacha: Maasros 4:2
    • Oz Vehadar / Artscroll: 34a 34a-35a
    • Vilna Shas: 19a 19a-19b
    • Academy of Hebrew Language: 277-8
    • Venice / Bomberg: 51a 51b
  • smoothing the pile of someone else’s grain, completes to process of making it tevel and therefore obligation of maaser

  • soil in a ship brought from overseas to Israel, treated as land of Israel?

  • stage of growth when the maaser obligation begins

  • temed produced from sediments that were untithed, fermented, not fermented

  • temed, when more liquid extracted than the water which created the temed, subject to maasros, but not terumah

  • temporary place of dwelling can sometimes qualify as bringing into one’s house, to obligate tithes

  • the point in production when various foods or oil become obligated in maaser

  • transferring to outside Israel, made ownerless, declared to be peah, requires tithes to be taken off?

  • turnips, radishes that are being replanted to eat later, obligated in tithes at time of uprooting?

  • unfinished fruit placed in a basket that had terumah or maaser taken, is casual eating permitted?

  • usually deducted at the threshing floor or at home?

  • vegetables and fruit which are subject to maaser either early and or late in their growth

  • when picking two figs with an interval in between, is considered one picking

  • wife and children can sometimes eat figs without taking tithes, sometimes tithes are required

  • wine drinking, formal way and casual way

  • wine in barrels designated as terumah as compared to sacks of grains designated as terumah or maaser

  • workers eating produce they are working with, depending on if it’s part of their pay, or not included in their pay

  • Yochanan kohen gadol abolished saying viduy maaser, reason