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A wide-ranging commentary on the daily page of Talmud.

Offering of the First Fruits (Hebrew: בִּכּוּרִים , bikkurim) (illustration from a Bible card published between 1896 and 1913 by the Providence Lithograph Company)

Yevamot 73: Bikkurim Limits

jyungar May 19, 2022

For the source text click/tap here: Yevamot 73

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Our daf quotes a Mishnah that teaches a numberof halakhot regarding bikkurim and terumah.

For example, someone who is not a kohen who eats them will be liable to receive the death penalty if he consumes them with malicious intent or will have to pay restitution and add a 20% penalty if he eats them accidentally.

It was taught in the baraita that second tithe and first fruits are forbidden to an acute mourner; and Rabbi Shimon permits an acute mourner to partake of first fruits.

Based on Deut 12:17, “You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your wine, or of your oil…nor the offering of your hand”

and the Master said: “The offering [teruma] of your hand,” these are the first fruits.

And first fruits are juxtaposed in this verse to second tithe: Just as the second tithe is forbidden to an acute mourner, so too, first fruits are forbidden to an acute mourner.

We explore the notion of the Kohein who is an onein, and some halachic reflections on mourning by Rav Soloveitchik.

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