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=== First Fruits ===
Not to make things too easy for the vegetarians, though, there are also some limitations regarding plant-based foods. One is quite obvious: as we know, all "creeping things" are unkosher, therefore all plants fruits and vegetables that are infested with maggots are not aren't kosher either.
But that's not all. In the times when the Temple of Jerusalem still stood, Jews were obligated to pay various kinds of taxes and tithes to the priests. These included the "first fruits", or produce from the first harvest of a given crop in a given period. For example, Jews couldn't consume any cereals that had grown in the early spring until some of the grain was brought to the Temple for the feast of Passover.
