Articles Lema'seh Beit Midrash Articles Categories Around the Jewish Year Grafting Kashrut Kila'im Land of Israel Orlah & Neta Revay Other Topics Shemitah Terumot & Ma’aserot Place and Parasha Chadash Challah Kids Garden of Mitzvot Subscribe to our Newsletter Full Name Email I agree to the terms of use and privacy policy of the site. Pesach: Instructions for Baking Hand Matzah This article covers the entire matzah baking process, from baking preparations, through dough preparation and docking, baking, challah separation and cleaning. Read More Are women obligated in birkat ha'ilanot? Is birkat ha'ilanot, the blessing over budding trees that we say during Nissan, a time-bound mitzvah? If not, are women obligated? Read More On the Exemption and Avoidance of the Terumot and Ma‘aserot Obligation Is there an obligation to create the circumstances that generate a halachic obligation to separate terumot and ma‘aserot? This broad topic—of exempting oneself... Read More The Five Grains – Plants in the Garden of Mitzvot One of the unique plots in the Garden of Mitzvot is dedicated to the Five Grains. It is rare to find all of the five grains growing side by side as they are in... Read More Khat – Plants in the Garden of Mitzvot Khat is an evergreen perennial woody shrub. Its leaves are traditionally chewed as a stimulant. Since khat is halachically considered a tree, are the leaves... Read More Layered grapevine Our Garden of Mitzvot is much more than a beautiful botanical garden. Each plot is designed to raise thought-provoking halachic questions. On the technique of... Read More Pesach: Bi'ur Ma'aserot and Viduy Ma'aserot, Nissan 5786 Biur and viduy ma'aserot are unique mitzvot that occur once every three years; this year (5786) is one of them. On the halachot of bi'ur and viduy ma'aserot as... Read More Bi'ur and viduy ma'aserot What is involved in the mitzvah of bi'ur ma'aserot? Can we perform viduy ma'aserot today? On two unique mitzvot that occur twice during the shemitah cycle.... Read More Bi'ur ma'aserot and viduy ma'aserot This article discusses a rare mitzvah we do twice in sevem years, in the 4th and 7th year of the shemitah cycle (5786, 5789). Read More What to do if you forgot to do bi'ur ma'aserot by the deadline The ma'aser sheni coin should be destroyed by Pesach (years four and seven of the shemita cycle: 5779,5782, 5786). What happens if you forget? Can you use... Read More 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34
