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The rabbis continue to discuss the obligation to separate term and ma'aser only within the land of Israel, like all agricultural laws apply only in Israel. It may have been an ancient custom to separate these gifts and tithes from afar to ensure that the mitzvot are remembered. The tradition spread from one centre to another. Thus, the rabbis were more lenient about theses mitzvot.
We explore this halachot for chutz la’areztz as well as the appropriation of the blemished Bechor in modern literary fiction such as Shakespeare and Milton.