Gifts to the Kohanim - Matnot Kehunah

Gifts which are given to Kohanim from Produce

Tithing wool

The oil from a metzora's purification

The "omer" flour offering

The sotah's flour offering

The hide of the korban olah

The meat of a bird chatat

The asham of a nazir

The asham of a metzora

Gezel haGer

The gifts are to be given to the Kohen, not transferred in a manner appropriate for sales: Bava Metzia 11b
All Kohanim share the gifts on the holidays, and are considered to be part of the weekly Mishmar shift: Moed Katan 17b
Eating from an animal before its gifts are removed: Megillah 28a
Obligation to give the gifts to a Kohen, from an animal which had been sanctified as a Temple Offering after becoming permanently blemished: Temurah 10b, 33b
One should not give all of them to one Kohen; this is punished by famine: Eruvin 63a

Giving it to non-Kohanim: Ketuvot 25a
Forbidden to the Kohanim until the required sections have been brought on the Altar: Pesachim 59b
The Kohanim may eat them, if the Sections for Burning on the Altar are prevented from being burnt by Impurity or Disqualification: Pesachim 59b
The owner of the Offering has not fulfilled his obligation until the Gifts are eligible for consumption by a Kohen: Pesachim 59b
Separating it from the rest, and delivering it to a kohen, on Yom Tov: Beitzah 12b


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