Accidental advanced separation - status of fruit and future steps
Question
I accidentally said the brachot plus the text for advance separation over the fruits we had picked and the tree in general.
Are the fruits we already picked fully terumot and ma'asered or do I need to say something else for them?
Going forward, should I wait until next Wednesday to pick any more plums and then do terumot and ma'aser over them with a bracha? (If it's within the week would it be a safek of bracha levatala?)
Answer
Rabbi Netanel Oyerbach
1. Your fruit is properly tithed and you may eat it
2. Keep the terumot - wrap, mark, and refrigerate them, and then you can pick more fruit this week and they will be considered duly tithed
3. In another week, and going forward, harvest and say the regular text