💾 Archived View for auragem.space › texts › jewish › t › Mishneh%20Torah%2C%20Heave%20Offerings%203 captured on 2022-07-16 at 15:58:12. Gemini links have been rewritten to link to archived content
-=-=-=-=-=-=-
3 [1] The great *terumah* [given to priests] has biblically no prescribed limit, as it is written: "You shall give him the first fruit of your new grain" (Deuteronomy 18:4); that is, anything: even one particle of wheat may exempt a heap of grain.— — [2] But what proportion has been prescribed by the sages? A generous person gives one-fortieth of the crop; the average person gives one-fiftieth; the miserly gives one-sixtieth. One must not give less than one-sixtieth. [3] [4] The priestly *terumah* is not given by measure, weight or number, because no limit has been stated in the Torah with regard to heave-offerings. One should estimate in his mind and set aside about one-sixtieth.— — [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] The duty concerning a *terumah* of the tithe concerns the Levite who must give to a priest a tenth of the tithe he receives, as it is written: "When you receive from the Israelites their tithes … you shall remove from them one-tenth of the tithe…" (Numbers 18:26). A lay Israelite may set it aside and give it to a priest and then give the tithe to a Levite, after having removed from it the *terumah* which is known as a tithe from the tithe. [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] The *terumah* and the tithe are to be set aside according to the following order: the first fruits are set aside first of all, then the great *terumah*, then the first tithe, then the second tithe, or else the tithe for the poor.— —
Version: Maimonides' Mishneh Torah, edited by Philip Birnbaum, New York, 1967
License: unknown