Positive Commandment 133 (Digest)
The Dough Offering ("Challah")
"You shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough as a gift"—Numbers 15:20.
We are commanded to separate a portion of every dough we prepare and give it to the priest.
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> The 133rd mitzvah is that we are commanded to separate challah from each dough and to give it to a kohen.
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> The source of this commandment is G‑d's statement,;) "You must separate the first portion of your kneading as challah [a dough offering]."
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> The details of this mitzvah are explained in tractates Challah and Orlah. It is a Biblical commandment only in Eretz Yisroel.;)
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> Num. 15:20.
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> Outside Eretz Yisroel it is obligatory by Rabbinic decree.
Positive Commandment 143 (Digest)
The Priestly Portion of Meat
"And this shall be the priests' due from the people, from those who perform a slaughter, be it an ox or a sheep"—Deuteronomy 18:3.
We are commanded to give to the priest the foreleg, jaw, and belly of any kosher animal that we slaughter.
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> The 143rd mitzvah is that we are commanded to give the foreleg, the jaw, and the keivah;) from every kosher animal that we slaughter to a kohen.
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> The source of this commandment is G‑d's statement,;) "This shall be the law of what the Kohanim receive from the people when an animal is slaughtered: [whether ox or sheep you must give the Kohen the foreleg, the jaw, and the keivah]."
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> The details of this mitzvah are explained in the 10th chapter of tractate Chullin. Levites are not obligated in this mitzvah.;)
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Positive Commandment 144 (Digest)
The Priestly Portion of Fleece
"The first of the fleece of your sheep [shearing], you shall give him"—Deuteronomy 18:4.
We are commanded to separate the first portion of [a sheep's] shearing and give it to the priest.
This mitzvah applies only in the Land of Israel.
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> The 144th mitzvah is that we are commanded to separate the first of our shearings and give them to a kohen.
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> The source of this commandment is G‑d's statement,;) "You shall give him the first of your shearing."
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