[Avodah] terumot and maaserot

[Eli Turkel]

<< Rather, one must take teruma from the apples, and also teruma from the
oranges. If the two are evenly mixed, then one may take some apples&oranges
as teruma for the other apples&oranges, but if one tries this for maaser
they had better be very evenly mixed or the proportions won't come out
right. >>

I got lost on the application to maaser. We don't actually take out maaser
(unless you meant terumat maaser)
Rather we state that 10% in the north (for example) of each kind is now
maaser rishon and similarly for maaser sheni. Since the standard version is
"kol min al mono" it shouldn't make a difference what the percentages of
the mixture is. Of course as mentioned one needs to take out 1+% out of
each kind.

BTW if one buys two kinds of apples, as far as I know one takes out the 1+%
out of the total and not from each kind. In practice one also assumes that
they are from the same year unless known otherwise.

Just to stress that if one buys fruit from a supermarket or most places
selling fruits and vegetables most probably terumot and maaserot have
already been taken out several times at different levels. If one is getting
his fruits from someone's backyard then one can indeed assume they are from
the present year. However, in the supermarket they may come from storage.
Nevertheless I havent heard of people taking terumot from each apple
because maybe the storage apples are from different years.


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Eli Turkel
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