A woman appoints an agent to receive her bill of divorce 'in such-and-such a place.' When is she forbidden to eat terumah?
Because the get is only effective if given in the specified location, she is not forbidden until the agent reaches that place and could actually receive it there (Halacha 1).
Question 2
Which of the following persons is presumed dead for terumah purposes, such that his wife (an Israelite's daughter married to a priest) may no longer eat terumah?
Once a man convicted by a Jewish court has been brought to the place of stoning, we presume he is dead. The other cases — siege, sinking ship, caravan — are treated with the stringencies of both the living and the dead, or presumed alive (Halacha 2).
Question 3
A priest rents a cow to an Israelite. May the Israelite feed the cow terumah?
Rental does not interrupt the priest's ownership. The Israelite renting the cow may feed it terumah, but must first formally transfer ownership of the terumah to the priest (Halacha 7).
Question 4
When does a Canaanite servant of a priest become forbidden from eating terumah, even if his bill of emancipation is being withheld?
Even when the bill of emancipation is withheld, the servant is forbidden from terumah from the moment he becomes halachically deserving of freedom — the document's absence does not preserve his terumah rights (Halacha 5).
Question 5
A priest sells his cow to an Israelite and receives full payment, but the Israelite has not yet drawn the cow into his domain. May the priest still feed the cow terumah?
The Rambam rules (based on his own derivation) that by Scriptural law, monetary payment completes a sale. Therefore, once the priest is paid, the cow belongs to the Israelite and the priest may no longer feed it terumah (Halacha 10).