Title: Anki Torah / Mishnayos
Tags: Ma’asrot Ma’asrot1 Ma’asrot3 Ma’asrot2 Ma’asrot5 Ma’asrot4
On every note of this deck, unless a note says otherwise:
Author: Rabbi Jonathan Fox

Front: ‘and grows from the soil’ – what foods does this exclude?
Back: Truffles and mushrooms
Title: Ma’asrot 1:1

Front: Is food that owners regard as hefker liable for tithing?
Back: No
Title: Ma’asrot 1:1

Front: A particular fruit is not edible at the beginning of its growth. When does it become liable to tithing?
Back: Once it has grown into ripe fruit
Title: Ma’asrot 1:1

Front: When do grapes become liable to tithing?
Back: When their pips become visible through their skin
Title: Ma’asrot 1:2

Front: When do mulberries become liable to tithing?
Back: When they become red
Title: Ma’asrot 1:2

Front: When do dates become liable to tithing?
Back: When they begin to swell like dough
Title: Ma’asrot 1:2

Front: When do black fruits become liable to tithing?
Back: When they form black spots
Title: Ma’asrot 1:3

Front: When do pears become liable to tithing?
Back: When they have shed the hair on their skin
Title: Ma’asrot 1:3

Front: According to the Tana Kama, are citrons liable to tithing when they are small?
Back: Yes
Title: Ma’asrot 1:4

Front: According to Rebbi Shimon, are citrons liable to tithing when they are small?
Back: No
Title: Ma’asrot 1:4

Front: Which types of almonds are liable to tithing when they are small?
Back: Bitter almonds
Title: Ma’asrot 1:4

Front: At which point it becomes prohibited to eat a chance meal without tithing: Cucumbers before they have been stacked into a heap?
Back: When their fringe (thin hair) has been taken off
Title: Ma’asrot 1:5

Front: At which point it becomes prohibited to eat a chance meal without tithing: Melons that the owner has not smoothed?
Back: When they have been laid out to dry
Title: Ma’asrot 1:5

Front: At which point it becomes prohibited to eat a chance meal without tithing: Vegetables that the owner intends to sell at the market?
Back: When he has transported them home
Title: Ma’asrot 1:5

Front: At what point does it become prohibited to eat a chance meal from grain if the grain is not smoothed?
Back: When the grain is stacked up in a heap
Title: Ma’asrot 1:6

Front: A person has smoothed his grain. From which grain is it still permitted to eat a chance meal?
Back: The fragmented ears that were left unthreshed, the grain on the sides of the heap that have not been smoothed and from that which is inside the husks
Title: Ma’asrot 1:6

Front: When wine has been skimmed in the lower wine press, may one still collect some wine and take a chance gulp of wine from the upper wine press?
Back: Yes
Title: Ma’asrot 1:7

Front: When wine has been skimmed in the lower wine press, may one still collect some wine and take a chance gulp of wine from the lower wine press?
Back: No
Title: Ma’asrot 1:7

Front: When wine has been skimmed in the lower wine press, may one still collect some wine and take a chance gulp of wine from the duct?
Back: Yes
Title: Ma’asrot 1:7

Front: According to the Tana Kama, does the cooking of untithed oil render the oil forbidden from chance consumption?
Back: Yes
Title: Ma’asrot 1:7

Front: According to Rebbi Yehudah, does the cooking of untithed oil render the oil forbidden from chance consumption?
Back: No
Title: Ma’asrot 1:7

Front: ‘when he has smoothed it down’ – what does this refer to regarding a fig cake?
Back: To the spreading of a liquid over the fig cake
Title: Ma’asrot 1:8

Front: According to which Tana in our Mishnah, does the juice discharged by grapes render food susceptible to uncleanness?
Back: Rebbi Yehudah
Title: Ma’asrot 1:8

Front: When do dried figs in a store bin become liable to tithing?
Back: When they are pressed together with a roller
Title: Ma’asrot 1:8

Front: An am ha’aretz is carrying figs from the field to his home. He says to his friend ‘Take some figs for yourself’. May the friend eat a chance meal from the figs without tithing them?
Back: Yes
Title: Ma’asrot 2:1

Front: An am ha’aretz is carrying figs. He says to his friend ‘Take some figs and bring them into your house’. What does he imply by telling his friend to bring them into his house?
Back: That the friend may eat a regular meal from the figs as they have already become liable to tithes and have been tithed
Title: Ma’asrot 2:1

Front: A person carrying figs passes a shop. He says to the owner of the shop ‘Take for yourself some figs’ and the shop-owner accepts some figs. According to the Tana Kama, does the shop-owner become liable to tithe the figs?
Back: Yes
Title: Ma’asrot 2:2

Front: A person carrying figs passes a shop. He says to the owner of the shop ‘Take for yourself some figs’ and the shop-owner accepts some figs. According to Rebbi Yehudah, under what circumstances would the shop-owner become liable to tithe the figs?
Back: If he turns his face away or if he changes the place where he is sitting
Title: Ma’asrot 2:2

Front: A person takes his untithed produce from Galilee to Jerusalem in order to sell it in Jerusalem. According to the Tana Kama, when does he become liable to tithe the produce?
Back: When he arrives in Jerusalem
Title: Ma’asrot 2:3

Front: According to Rebbi Yehudah, when does a peddler, carrying untithed produce, become liable to tithe the produce?
Back: When he arrives at the first house in the town where he will spend the night
Title: Ma’asrot 2:3

Front: One separated terumah from produce before the produce had become liable for tithing. According to Rebbi Eliezer, why may one not eat a chance meal from the produce?
Back: Once terumah has been taken from produce, the produce becomes liable to tithing even before work has been completed on the produce
Title: Ma’asrot 2:4

Front: One separated terumah from produce before the produce had become liable for tithing. In what case, do the Sages agree with Rebbi Eliezer?
Back: If the produce is a large basket of figs
Title: Ma’asrot 2:4

Front: While gathering figs, a person sells five figs to his fellow for an issar. According to Rebbi Yehudah, in what way can the buyer eat the figs without having to tithe them?
Back: By eating them one by one
Title: Ma’asrot 2:5

Front: A person says to his friend who owns a vineyard ‘Here is an issar for a cluster of grapes that I will select from the vine’. May he pick the whole cluster at once off the vine and eat the grapes without tithing?
Back: No
Title: Ma’asrot 2:6

Front: A person says to his friend who owns an orchard ‘Here is an issar for these 10 figs that I have selected’. May he pick the 10 figs at once off the tree and eat them as a chance meal without tithing? Why?
Back: Yes. He bought them while they were attached to the ground and a purchase made while produce is attached to the ground does not render the produce liable to tithing
Title: Ma’asrot 2:6

Front: A laborer, who was hired to lay out figs, says to the employer ‘I will work on condition that I may eat figs while working and after working’. Which part of his stipulation is effective?
Back: That he may eat after working
Title: Ma’asrot 2:7

Front: A laborer, who was hired to lay out figs, says to the employer ‘I will work on condition that I may eat figs while working and after working’. Why does it prevent him from eating without tithing?
Back: This is considered a transaction that makes the figs liable to tithing
Title: Ma’asrot 2:7

Front: From the apparent redundancy of which word in the Torah, do we learn that a laborer may only eat from the species of produce that he is working on?
Back: ‘grapes’ – Devarim 23:25
Title: Ma’asrot 2:8

Front: A person exchanges figs with his fellow in order to lay them out to dry. According to Rebbi Yehudah, they may eat a chance meal from those figs without tithing. Why does the transaction not make them liable to tithing?
Back: Because their preparation is incomplete and a transaction made before the completion of the preparation does not make them liable to tithing
Title: Ma’asrot 2:8

Front: The owner of an orchard is taking figs through his courtyard, to lay them out to dry in a designated place. When the figs enter the courtyard, which of the following may eat them as a chance meal without tithing: the owner; the owner’s children; a laborer who is entitled to maintenance from the owner?
Back: The owner’s children
Title: Ma’asrot 3:1

Front: A particular laborer performs work that is not related to the produce of the orchard. The employer has contracted to provide maintenance to the laborer. In what way can the laborer eat from the figs without tithing?
Back: He may pick and figs from the fig-tree and eat them one by one
Title: Ma’asrot 3:2

Front: A person hires a laborer to tend olives. The laborer stipulates ‘on condition that I may eat olives’. Does this condition count as a transaction to obligate the laborer to tithe the olives before plucking them in pairs and eating them?
Back: Yes
Title: Ma’asrot 3:3

Front: A person finds cut dried figs beside a field of dried figs. If he takes the figs, does he have to tithe them and why?
Back: No, as they are hefker and hefker is not liable to tithes
Title: Ma’asrot 3:4

Front: A person finds slices of fig cakes beside a field of dried figs. If he takes the figs, does he have to tithe them and why?
Back: Yes. Since they come from a finished product, they are liable to tithing and are not covered by the hefker exemption of ma’aser
Title: Ma’asrot 3:4

Front: According to Rebbi Akiva, a courtyard wherein one person closes and another opens does not render liable to tithing. Why not?
Back: Since the courtyard is not guarded and only a guarded courtyard renders liable to tithing
Title: Ma’asrot 3:5

Front: According to Rebbi Yosi, what type of courtyard renders liable to tithing?
Back: A courtyard that a stranger can enter without hindrance (i.e. without being questioned)
Title: Ma’asrot 3:5

Front: Assuming that the courtyard of a particular house renders produce liable to tithing, for each of the following state whether it also renders the produce liable: the roof?
Back: No
Title: Ma’asrot 3:6

Front: Assuming that the courtyard of a particular house renders produce liable to tithing, for each of the following state whether it also renders the produce liable: a balcony?
Back: Yes
Title: Ma’asrot 3:6

Front: For each of the following, state whether it renders produce liable to tithing: A summer hut?
Back: No
Title: Ma’asrot 3:7

Front: For each of the following, state whether it renders produce liable to tithing: A Genesareth hut with a mill and poultry in it?
Back: No
Title: Ma’asrot 3:7

Front: For each of the following, state whether it renders produce liable to tithing: The inner potter’s hut?
Back: Yes
Title: Ma’asrot 3:7

Front: According to the Sages, does a sukka on Sukkot render produce liable to tithing?
Back: No
Title: Ma’asrot 3:7

Front: A fig tree stands in a courtyard. May one pick and eat the figs two at a time without tithing?
Back: No
Title: Ma’asrot 3:8

Front: A fig tree stands in a courtyard. Why is it permitted to climb the tree and eat the figs normally without tithing?
Back: Because the airspace of the courtyard does not render liable to tithing like the courtyard does
Title: Ma’asrot 3:8

Front: A vine is planted in a courtyard. According to which Tana in our Mishnah, may a person pick a cluster from the vine and eat from the cluster without tithing?
Back: Rebbi Tarfon
Title: Ma’asrot 3:9

Front: Under what circumstances is hyssop, taken from a hyssop tree in a courtyard, liable to tithing, if the hyssop is to serve as a chance meal?
Back: If it is guarded
Title: Ma’asrot 3:9

Front: A fig-tree is rooted in a garden and overhangs a courtyard. May a person who is standing in the courtyard, pick figs two-together from the overhang and eat them as a chance meal without tithing?
Back: No
Title: Ma’asrot 3:10

Front: For which (if any) of the following do we not follow the roots: tithing; walled cities; cities of refuge?
Back: Cities of refuge
Title: Ma’asrot 3:10

Front: For each of the following state whether the action renders liable to tithing: Pickling of vegetables
Back: Yes
Title: Ma’asrot 4:1

Front: For each of the following state whether the action renders liable to tithing: Squeezing of olives onto one’s skin.
Back: No
Title: Ma’asrot 4:1

Front: For each of the following state whether the action renders liable to tithing: Pouring of wine into an empty pot and skimming it before it enters the dish.
Back: Yes
Title: Ma’asrot 4:1

Front: A person sets aside a basket of untithed fruit for Shabbat. According to Bet Hillel, why may one not eat the fruit before Shabbat without tithing?
Back: Setting aside food for Shabbat renders it liable for tithing
Title: Ma’asrot 4:2

Front: A person sets aside a basket of untithed fruit for Shabbat. Does Bet Shamai agree with Bet Hillel?
Back: No
Title: Ma’asrot 4:2

Front: A person takes several olives from the vat and salts them together. May he eat them as a chance meal without tithing?
Back: No
Title: Ma’asrot 4:3

Front: An unclean person takes unclean olives from the vat. According to Rebbi Eliezer, may he eat them as a chance meal without tithing?
Back: Yes
Title: Ma’asrot 4:3

Front: According to the Sages, in what manner may one drink untithed wine as a chance drink over the press?
Back: If the wine is mixed with cold water
Title: Ma’asrot 4:4

Front: Why is it permitted to drink untithed wine as a chance drink over the press?
Back: Since he could pour the remainder back into the press
Title: Ma’asrot 4:4

Front: A person rubs parched ears of wheat between his fingers to remove the chaff. How must he sift them in order to be able to eat them as a chance meal without tithing?
Back: He must sift them from hand to hand
Title: Ma’asrot 4:5

Front: According to Rebbi Eliezer, from which parts of the caper may one give tithes?
Back: From the stalks, berries and flowers
Title: Ma’asrot 4:6

Front: According to Rebbi Akiva, from which parts of the caper may one give tithes?
Back: From the berries
Title: Ma’asrot 4:6

Front: A person uproots seedlings from his field in order to plant elsewhere on his property. Assuming there is fruit on the seedlings, may he eat from them a chance meal without tithing?
Back: Yes
Title: Ma’asrot 5:1

Front: A person gathers seedlings to send them to his friend as a gift. Similar seedlings are commonly sold in the marketplace. According to Rebbi Elazar ben Azaryah, why are the seedlings liable to tithing even before reaching the courtyard?
Back: Since they share the same status as produce whose preparation has concluded
Title: Ma’asrot 5:1

Front: ‘that is their threshing floor - what is ‘the threshing-floor’ for turnips?
Back: Their uprooting
Title: Ma’asrot 5:2

Front: Unclean onions that are being stored, strike root in the upper story. Do they lose their uncleanness?
Back: Yes
Title: Ma’asrot 5:2

Front: According to the Jerusalem Talmud, based on which verse in the Torah may one not sell his field of produce to an am ha’aretz if the tithing season has arrived?
Back: ‘Do not put a stumbling block before the blind’ – Vayikra 19:14
Title: Ma’asrot 5:3

Front: When may one sell one’s field of produce to an am ha’aretz?
Back: If the tithing season of the produce has not yet arrived
Title: Ma’asrot 5:3

Front: A person sets aside terumah and ma’aser from his straw. He has some threshed ears in which some grain remains. Is this grain still liable to terumah?
Back: No
Title: Ma’asrot 5:4

Front: A person sets aside terumah and ma’aser from his straw. He has some threshed ears in which some grain remains. Is this grain still liable to ma’aser?
Back: Yes
Title: Ma’asrot 5:4

Front: A Jew buys a field of vegetables from a gentile in Syria after the tithing season has arrived. Is the Jew obligated to tithe the produce and why?
Back: No. When he bought the field, it was exempt from ma’aser as the tithing season arrived while the field was in the possession of the gentile
Title: Ma’asrot 5:5

Front: A Jew buys the vegetables from a field that belongs to a gentile in Syria before the tithing season has arrived. According to Raban Shimon ben Gamliel, is the Jew obligated to tithe the produce and why?
Back: No. Since the Jew had no stake in the land, the vegetables grew on gentile land, exempting it from tithing
Title: Ma’asrot 5:5

Front: A person is making wine from untithed wine lees. He pours water over the lees and finds the same measure of wine as the water he had poured over it. According to the Tana Kama, is he liable to tithe the mixture?
Back: No
Title: Ma’asrot 5:6

Front: A person is making wine from untithed wine lees. He pours water over the lees and finds the same measure of wine as the water he had poured over it. According to Rebbi Yehudah, is he liable to tithe the mixture?
Back: Yes
Title: Ma’asrot 5:6

Front: Describe the situation in the Mishnah when grains in ant-holes are liable to tithing.
Back: If the grains are found in ant-holes in which the ants stayed a whole night near a pile of grain that was liable to tithing
Title: Ma’asrot 5:7

Front: Give two reasons why Egyptian lentils are not liable to tithing.
Back: They come from outside Israel and do not grow in Israel
Title: Ma’asrot 5:8

Front: Why are seed of onions not liable to tithing?
Back: They do not serve for human consumption
Title: Ma’asrot 5:8