About Rabbi Jack Abramowitz
Rabbi Jack Abramowitz served as Director of Programs for NCSY before becoming Associate Director of the Pepa and Rabbi Joseph Karasick Department of Synagogue Services. Rabbi Abramowitz holds degrees in Jewish studies, communications and Higher Education Administration. Among his accomplishments, he authored NCSY's Torah on One Foot series of educational pamphlets and created negiah.org, the first abstinence web site for Jewish teens. Rabbi Abramowitz is the author of The Shnayim Mikra Companion on Torah, The Nach Yomi Companion volumes 1 and 2 on the books of the Prophets and the Writings, and The Tzniyus Book.

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Taryag: A Mitzvah a Day

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PARSHAT Re'eh
MITZVAH COUNTER
Mitzvos to date: 443
Positives:189
Negatives:254
That can be performed today:192
Plus those that can be performed only in Israel:20

443. Grape Nuts: The prohibition against drinking wine of the second tithe outside Jerusalem


…your wine… (Deuteronomy 12:17)

If you grow grapes, you might make wine from them. The wine made from grapes of the first, second, fourth and fifth years in a Sabbatical cycle were subject to the laws of maaser sheini, the second tithe, just like grain. It, too, was not to be consumed outside Jerusalem.

This mitzvah applies at a time when the maaser sheini is in effect. In the Mishna, it is the subject of tractate Maaser Sheini. It is discussed in the Talmud in tractate Makkos (17a) and in Kerisos (5a). It is codified in the Mishneh Torah in the second chapter of Hilchos Maaser Sheini. This mitzvah is #142 of the 365 negative mitzvos in the Rambam’s Sefer HaMitzvos.



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