# Animal tithe

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The **animal tithe** (Hebrew: מַעְשַׂר בְּהֵמָה, "Ma'sar Behemah")[1] is a [commandment](/source/Mitzvah) in the [Torah](/source/Torah) requiring the sanctifying a [tithe](/source/Tithe) of [kosher](/source/Kosher) grazing animals (cattle, sheep, and goats) to God, to be sacrificed as a *[Korban](/source/Korban)* at the [Temple in Jerusalem](/source/Temple_in_Jerusalem).

The tithe of animals was not redeemable; and if one animal was exchanged for another both became sanctified. The method of levying the tithe of animals is indicated: they were counted singly; and every tenth one that passed under the rod became the tithe animal.[2]

The [Tannaim](/source/Tannaim) inferred from [Deuteronomy](/source/Book_of_Deuteronomy) that each tithe was to be taken of every year's produce separately, whether of crops, of cattle, or of anything else subject to tithing.[3] Also they fixed a particular day to mark the beginning of the year for tithing. The new year's day for the tithing of animals ([Rosh Hashanah L'Ma'sar Behemah](/source/Rosh_Hashanah_L'Ma'sar_Behemah)) is the first of [Elul](/source/Elul) according to [Rabbi Meir](/source/Rabbi_Meir), or the first of [Tishrei](/source/Tishrei) according to [Rabbi Eleazar](/source/Eleazar_ben_Shammua) and [Rabbi Simeon](/source/Simeon_bar_Yochai).[4]

The [Sages](/source/Chazal) ordained that animals should not be tithed in the present era when the Temple is not standing.[5]

## See also

- [First tithe](/source/First_tithe)
- [Poor tithe](/source/Poor_tithe)
- [Second tithe](/source/Second_tithe)

## References

1. ["Seadict.com"](https://web.archive.org/web/20150924095745/http://www.seadict.com/en/he/cattle%20tithe). Archived from [the original](http://www.seadict.com/en/he/cattle%20tithe) on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2013-06-11.

1. [Leviticus](/source/Book_of_Leviticus)

1. *[Sifre](/source/Sifre)*, Deuteronomy 105; [Mishnah Trumot 1:5](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/he%3A%D7%9E%D7%A9%D7%A0%D7%94_%D7%AA%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%AA_%D7%90_%D7%94); [Rosh Hashana 8a](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/he%3A%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%A9_%D7%94%D7%A9%D7%A0%D7%94_%D7%97_%D7%90), [12b](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/he%3A%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%A9_%D7%94%D7%A9%D7%A0%D7%94_%D7%99%D7%91_%D7%91)

1. Mishnah *Rosh Hashanah* [1:1](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Mishnah%2FSeder_Moed%2FTractate_Rosh_Hashanah%2FChapter_1%2F1)

1. Maimonides. ["Mishneh Torah, Sefer Korbanot: Bechorot, Perek 6, Halacha 2"](http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/1062899/jewish/Perek-6.htm). Retrieved July 14, 2013.

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