fruit tax

[Open Heart]

Hi.

I'm involved in a thread elsewhere about the fruit tax. I know that Jews tithe the fourth year of their fruit (and from then on can harvest). My question is: once harvesting begins, is the fruit further tithed?

My guess is not, as we go from general to specific, and the specific law about the fourth year overrides any other tithe. Am I correct?

My Rabbi takes a million years to return calls, and I hate to bug him with a question that doesn't concern me directly. I need to know ASAP so that if I'm wrong I can correct myself.

Thanks so much!

 

[Aryeh Jay]

Hi.

I'm involved in a thread elsewhere about the fruit tax. I know that Jews tithe the fourth year of their fruit (and from then on can harvest). My question is: once harvesting begins, is the fruit further tithed?

My guess is not, as we go from general to specific, and the specific law about the fourth year overrides any other tithe. Am I correct?

My Rabbi takes a million years to return calls, and I hate to bug him with a question that doesn't concern me directly. I need to know ASAP so that if I'm wrong I can correct myself.

Thanks so much!

That only applies if you and the fruit tree are physically in the land of Israel.

Laws of Religion, Judaism and Islam

 

[Open Heart]

That only applies if you and the fruit tree are physically in the land of Israel.

Laws of Religion, Judaism and Islam

Which applies? That the fruit is tithed from the fifth year on, or that it is not tithed after the fourth year?

 

[Aryeh Jay]

Which applies? That the fruit is tithed from the fifth year on, or that it is not tithed after the fourth year?

If you live in the country of Israel, you would do this tax. If you live anywhere else on the planet earth, you do not have to worry about this tax. This tax only applies to fruit trees that are physically growing in the State of Israel.

 

[Open Heart]

If you live in the country of Israel, you would do this tax. If you live anywhere else on the planet earth, you do not have to worry about this tax. This tax only applies to fruit trees that are physically growing in the State of Israel.

I understand this. Thank you.

I don't think you are understanding my question. In the Land of Israel, in the fifth year, is there STILL a fruit tithe due (despite that it is no longer the fourth year)?

 

[Aryeh Jay]

I understand this. Thank you.

I don't think you are understanding my question. In the Land of Israel, in the fifth year, is there STILL a fruit tithe due (despite that it is no longer the fourth year)?

Opps! Sorry! Yes, after the tax (tithe) is paid once, it is no longer taxed.

 

[Open Heart]

Opps! Sorry! Yes, after the tax (tithe) is paid once, it is no longer taxed.

Thanks so much!!!

 

[Henaynei]

Opps! Sorry! Yes, after the tax (tithe) is paid once, it is no longer taxed.

It may be so now, but it seems it may not always have been so....

JPS Tanakh 1917
Nehemiah 10:36...and to bring the first-fruits of our land, and the first-fruits of all fruit of all manner of trees, year by year, unto the house of the L-RD
Leviticus 27:30 Thus all the tithe of the land, of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree, is the L-RD'S; it is holy to the L-RD.

 

[Open Heart]

It may be so now, but it seems it may not always have been so....

JPS Tanakh 1917
Nehemiah 10:36...and to bring the first-fruits of our land, and the first-fruits of all fruit of all manner of trees, year by year, unto the house of the L-RD
Leviticus 27:30 Thus all the tithe of the land, of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree, is the L-RD'S; it is holy to the L-RD.

Good to see you again!

Lev 27:30 says nothing on this matter. The tithe is the fourth year.

Nehemiah 10:36 mentions "year by year," and does need to be addressed. Basically, there will be fruits in the fourth year every year, because farmers in various areas are planting new orchards all the time, as God is not address each individual farmer, but Israel as a whole.

 

[Henaynei]

Good to see you again!

Lev 27:30 says nothing on this matter. The tithe is the fourth year.

Nehemiah 10:36 mentions "year by year," and does need to be addressed. Basically, there will be fruits in the fourth year every year, because farmers in various areas are planting new orchards all the time, as God is not address each individual farmer, but Israel as a whole.

for this reason there is established a New Year for trees - Tu b'Shevat
Judaism 101: Tu B'Shevat