Terumot ("Heave Offerings"

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• TERUMOT — (Heb. תְּרוּמוֹת; heave offerings ), sixth tractate of the order Zera im, in the Mishnah, Tosefta, and Jerusalem Talmud. There is no Babylonian Talmud on this tractate. It details the laws of terumah (the heave offering) to be given to the priest …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• TERUMOT AND MA'ASEROT — (Heb. תְּרוּמוֹת, heave offerings, and מַעַשְׂרוֹת, tithes ), dues given to the priests and the poor. A number of passages in the Bible deal with ma aser and according to the halakhah they refer to different categories: the first tithe is given… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Heave offering — A heave offering ( he. terumah), is a type of Korban (Biblical sacrifice), specifically a sacrifice which was a tithe. The term heave offering refers to the fact that such offerings were heaved (lifted) above the altar, as opposed to being waved… …   Wikipedia

• Zeraʿim — ▪ Jewish text       (Hebrew: “Seeds”), the first of the six major divisions, or orders (sedarim), of the Mishna (codification of Jewish oral laws), which was completed early in the 3rd century AD by Judah ha Nasi. Zeraʿim contains 11 tractates… …   Universalium

• Terumah — is a Hebrew word, originally meaning lifted apart , but meaning donation in modern Hebrew. It can refer to: * Heave offerings a type of sacrifice in the Hebrew Bible * Terumat hamaaser a tithing obligation arising from the Terumah sacrifice still …   Wikipedia

• TALMUD, BABYLONIAN — (Heb. תַּלְמוּד בַּבְלִי), a literary work of monumental proportions (5,894 folio pages in the standard printed editions), which draws upon the totality of the spiritual, intellectual, ethical, historical, and legal traditions produced in… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism