Which member of a priest's household is explicitly FORBIDDEN from partaking of terumah?
Hebrew servants retain independent financial status and are legally compared to hired workers, so — unlike Canaanite servants who are considered the priest's 'financial acquisition' — they may not partake of terumah.
Question 2
According to Halachah 2, to whom should ritually PURE terumah be given?
Since all unlearned people are presumed ritually impure, pure terumah is reserved for Torah scholars who can be trusted to maintain its purity — an unlearned priest might inadvertently defile and then eat it.
Question 3
What is the penalty for a non-priest who INADVERTENTLY eats terumah?
Leviticus 22:14 prescribes that one who eats sacred food inadvertently must add a fifth — meaning one-fourth of the original amount — on top of the principal, without any additional punishment.
Question 4
When a widowed daughter of a priest returns to her father's home with no surviving descendants, what may she eat?
The oral tradition interprets 'from the bread of her father' to mean she returns to terumah but not the breast and thigh — those she forfeits permanently upon marrying a non-priest, even if she is later widowed or divorced.
Question 5
Why do grandchildren born to a Canaanite maidservant (from a woman's priestly son) NOT affect her terumah status?
Since parental lineage does not apply to servants, a child born to a Canaanite maidservant is treated as though he has no father. He therefore cannot serve as a 'descendant' that enables or disqualifies terumah rights for his paternal grandmother.