Terumot & Ma’aserot
Do I need to tithe from one lychee outside?
Quick question - if I pick a lychee from my tree and want to eat it straight away, do I need to take terumot and maaserot first?
Terumot & ma'aserot in an open-air pavilion and from a crate
Shalom, on a farm there is a wooden open-air pavilion where meals are served, and salads are prepared from produce picked in the field. When vegetables are brought there, is there an obligation to separate tithes (ma‘aserot)? Additionally, if vegetables are placed in a small crate before being brought into the packing house, may one take from the crate and eat without separating tithes? All the best.
Partnership with a kohen on a farm for terumot and ma'aserot
Question:
Is it permissible to give terumah and terumat ma‘aser to a Kohen (with a confirmed family tradition) for the purpose of feeding animals? Furthermore, may a farm transfer ownership of a goat pen or chicken coop to a Kohen, and subsequently use terumat ma‘aser separated from its produce as animal feed?
Accidental advanced separation - status of fruit and future steps
How long do I need to hold onto my coin for pidyon ma'aser sheni? What about Beit Ha'otzar members?
If in my case, I must have my own coin, how long is it used for? Somebody told me that it’s forever, which I didn’t think was the case, according to your notes?
If I become a member of your ma'aser fund, do I need to let you know each time I pick a cucumber?
I understand the importance of joining the fund, however, is joining the fund applicable to me? If I am a member of the fund, I understand then that its remote: because the fund holds the coin, as it were, when the text /Brocha is recited, I am designating various parts of the produce for a Kohen, Levi
But that in some years, when it comes to redeeming the holiness of ma'aser sheni and the ma’aser ani produce, in these cases, I must have my own coin.
Please explain how one works with the fund. I’m sure that I won’t have to let them know each time I have picked a cucumber.
Ma’aserot from pine nuts
My four-year-old son collects pine nuts that fall under the trees and also brings them into the house.
- Are they subject to terumot and ma’aserot?
- If so, how do I prevent him from eating them first before taking terumot and ma’aserot?
At what point after separating terumot and ma'aserot can I eat the produce?
I understand that after the produce is designated and named, it is no longer tevel and can be eaten. I don’t understand how this works in my case. And at what point practically, can produce be eaten.
Am I to understand that in the event I pick one cucumber, that I will be required to physically cut (take the tithes on) one cucumber that is only going to be consumed later that night or the next day? Please clarify.
Stage of separation, harvest size, separating from more than 1 type of vegetable at a time, and saying the blessing
I understand that when reciting the text, I will be designating and naming various parts of the produce for a Kohen, Levi, and on some years for a poor person, and on other years, as ma'aser sheni.
I understand the need to separate terumot and ma'aserot from every batch I harvest. Bearing in mind that I am growing at home, please advise:
-If the size of each ‘picking’ relevant (‘harvest’ doesn’t sound like the right word). I imagine that there might only be a few (even one or two or three) at a time. Of course it might be more.
-in time, there might well be 1 or 2 vegetables from different vegetable types.
When must /or can the blessing be said?
And when must the tithes be taken?
Instructions for porch garden: growing vegetables on a rooftop - terumot and ma'asrot plus kilei zera'im
Dear Rabbi,
I am grateful to be able to write to you. I live in Israel in an apartment with access to a tiled roof on the 7th floor. I wish to grow for my own consumption and to share produce, both vegetables and fruit. I will be grateful with information as to how / what I must do physically to ensure all halachic tithes are taken and removed from the produce. I imagine that harvesting will take place under these 2 scenarios: Potatoes might be harvested in a single batch -or in multiple batches Other vegetables may become available gradually (possibly every few days) throughout the season. I understand that the taking and distributing Terumah and Ma’aser Rishon physically must be performed? And that after this a tenth of what remains (Ma’aser Sheni) is removed which was then biblically given to the Levites. However, I need instructions of how and what to physically do so that my planting and harvesting complies with Halacha.
I’m not sure what additional information is required -but wish to advise the following: I plan to plant in pots on the roof with holes at the bottom -in the open -or in a plastic mesh enclosed frame area -or inside the apartment, in front of a sunny window (e.g., tomatoes) If a pot has holes at the bottom but stands in a small tray to catch excess water, does this affect the halachic status? I am also considering placing multiple pots in a larger tray to conserve water—does this have any halachic implications? I hope this is enough information to assist you to be able to advise what exactly must be physically done.