According to Scriptural Law, what is required to establish the tithe obligation for produce?
Halachah 1 derives from Deuteronomy 26:13 ('I removed the sacred produce from the home') and 26:12 ('you shall eat in your gates') that Scriptural obligation requires entry through the gate of one's home — not merely into a courtyard or via the roof.
Question 2
Workers' sukkot in the vineyards contain mills and chickens and are used all summer. Do they establish a tithe obligation?
Halachah 4 rules that workers' sukkot in vineyards do not establish an obligation even if occupied all summer and containing mills and chickens, because they are not permanent dwellings — the defining criterion for obligating status.
Question 3
A traveling salesman passes through multiple courtyards selling perfumes in villages. When does the tithe obligation on his own produce first take effect?
Halachah 12 rules that traveling salesmen may snack freely while passing from courtyard to courtyard until they reach the home where they will spend the night — that lodging, not their ultimate hometown, is what establishes the obligation.
Question 4
A person accidentally forgets and brings figs (intended for an exempt courtyard) into his own home. What is the halachah?
Halachah 13 rules that bringing produce into one's home does not establish an obligation unless done intentionally. Therefore he must remove them from the home, but may then eat them without tithing — he may not, however, snack on them while inside the home.
Question 5
Someone is eating figs from a fig tree growing in a tithe-obligating courtyard. How may he eat without tithing?
Halachah 15 rules that eating figs one by one while standing on the ground is exempt. Gathering them creates an obligation. If he climbs above three handbreadths, he is in the airspace of the courtyard (not the courtyard itself) and may fill his bosom and eat freely.