Moving seamlessly from pressed figs in fish to boiling wine, the Mishnah closes with an enumeration of the special qualities of the grape and the olive.

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Cooking and pickling are the same actions! And the Mishnah is still interested in what the result tastes like - taste is everything - and which kinds of food have enough taste or enough moisture to transmit their essence to other foods or to absorb from them.

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What about pickling different kinds of food together? The Mishnah is still interested in what the result tastes like - taste is everything - and in which kinds of food have enough taste or enough moisture to transmit their essence to the other pickles in the bucket.

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What if we pickle terumah with ordinary food or drop terumah flavouring into wine? The Mishnah is mainly interested in what the result tastes like - taste is everything.

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What if we cook terumah with ordinary food? It turns out that the rabbis, like some aesthetes today, are mainly interested in what the result tastes like.

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Not all plants are alike and planting out terumah is not always a problem. Chapter 9 closes by identifying which plants have which consequences.

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What happens if we plant out terumah? Are the resulting crops terumah too? And what if the harvest is planted out in turn? Does the cycle ever stop?

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When confronted with two less-than-ideal choices, in a life-changing situation, what should we do? Chapter 8 of Terumot suddenly shifts focus from uncertainty about the status of a cask of wine to uncertainty about an attack by Gentile marauders.

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The eighth chapter of Terumot flip-flops between existential uncertainty and questions of life and death. When confronted with two less-than-ideal choices, what do we do?

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What if our terumah has been sipped by a snake? The eighth chapter of Terumot closes with questions of life and death and gives us, along the way, a fascinating insight into Mishnaic medicine and zoology.

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