"You shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough as a gift"—Numbers 15:20.
We are commanded to separate a portion of every dough we prepare and give it to the priest.
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Daily Mitzvah (Rambam)
Day 141: Positive Commandment 133, 143, 144
From the Sichos in English Collection
Positive Commandment 133 (Digest)
The Dough Offering ("Challah")
Positive Commandment 143 (Digest)
The Priestly Portion of Meat
"And this shall be the priests' due from the people, from those who perform a slaughter, be it an ox or a sheep"—Deuteronomy 18:3.
We are commanded to give to the priest the foreleg, jaw, and belly of any kosher animal that we slaughter.
Positive Commandment 144 (Digest)
The Priestly Portion of Fleece
"The first of the fleece of your sheep [shearing], you shall give him"—Deuteronomy 18:4.
We are commanded to separate the first portion of [a sheep's] shearing and give it to the priest.
This mitzvah applies only in the Land of Israel.
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When laying siege on a city to conquer it, we do not surround it from all four sides, but only from three sides, leaving a way to escape for anyone who wishes to flee for his life. As it is written: "And they warred against Midian, as G-d commanded Moses" (Numbers 31:7)--it has been handed down by tradition that this is what G-d had commanded him.
–Maimonides' Mishneh Torah, Laws of Kings and their Wars, 6:7
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