Q&A: Payment of an Added Fifth
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Payment of an Added Fifth
Question
Hello. Why do you think there is an obligation to pay an added fifth? What is its meaning? (Eating terumah, theft followed by an oath, redeeming one’s own second tithe, and redeeming one’s own consecrated property)
Answer
I don’t know. Maybe it’s some kind of punishment, deterrence, and so on.