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What is the halachic status of a crushed limb after the animal dies or is slaughtered? • Laws pertaining to a fetus whose mother was slaughtered

In which contexts do aquatic creatures not require fins and scales to be kosher? • In which contexts may terrestrial creeping creatures be consumed? • Can laboratory grown beef be kosher?

Deus Absconditus: the unseeable God • Deus Humilitis: providential healing of idolators • The mandate to sell with generosity • The paradox of creaturely desire to be created • The curious case of Divine atonement for the disgruntled moon • The value of polished expressions of truth • No scriptural prophecy is mundane

The unique tereifa of derusa, a mortal wound by being clawed • Clawed by a fox or a dog? • When assessing a claw wound, it is the predatory thought that counts • A backscratch or a lion's swipe? • What to do when the mandates of preventing financial losses among our brethren and honoring the local Rav are in conflict? • Examining a claw wound in context

Where does severance of the spinal cord render an animal tereifah, mortally wounded? • How much healthy liver tissue must be intact, and where, for the animal to be kosher? • Evaluation of various lung wounds and discoloration

When do improper intentions invalidate sacrificial offerings and non-consecrated slaughter? • Who is capable of invalidating slaughter with improper intentions? • When is it appropriate someone to hit there head on a mountain?

Does kosher slaughter require intentionality to be valid? • What is required for valid slaughter of the Red Heifer? • When would a pause within the slaughter render it invalid?

Divergent susceptibilities of earthenware and other vessels to ritual impurity • Divergent susceptibilities of wooden and metal vessels to ritual impurity • The controversy about boneware • Laws of tithing sweet and bitter almonds • Halachic treatment of an undivided inheritance estate

Why must a butcher subject his knife to be examined by a Torah scholar prior to kosher slaughter? • What are the consequences for failing to do so? • Where on the trachea may kosher slaughter be performed?

From where is the mandate to follow the majority derived?

What is required to permit having a Jew who eats non-kosher meat perform kosher slaughter? • When is the slaughter of a Samaritan kosher? • Is the slaughter of a Jewish idolator permitted? • Why does the Rambam prohibit the slaughter of those who deny the authenticity of the Torah, yet permit the slaughter of Sadducees and others who don't accept the oral tradition? • Rav Yosef Karo's shocking interpretation of the Rambam: Biblically recognized kosher slaughter of a non-Jew or ape

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How does one fulfill ambiguous or incompletely remembered vows of consecration?

What parts of Torah are permitted for non-Jews to learn? • Authentic Talmud Torah is inherently bound to actualization • How and why does the Rambam differentiate in his guidance about who one may teach the Noahide Covenant to?

Torah offers equal opportunity protection from evil men and evil women • Torah saves from the snare of all consuming heresy, like the enchanting but deadly femme fatale

How many tables and candelabras were in Solomon's temple and how were they utilized? • The fundamental importance of having pure intentions • Guarding the Torah • The constancy of the showbread and Torah study • The consumption of raw sacrificial meat: a complex perspective

Do crooked paths engender twistedness? • What does the Nazir gain by abstaining from wine? • Is it ideal to seek medical care from a doctor? • What was the Netziv's exam before being willing to receive medical care for his eyes? • The greatest secret

Which communal offerings require semichah, leaning one's weight on the animal prior to slaughter? • Which personal offerings do not require semichah?

Where and how should grain be optimally cultivated for meal offerings? • What imperfections would invalidate the flour or grain from sacrificial use? • Are there lashes for consecrating invalid flour or logs for the altar? • Sourcing sacrificial olive oil • A simple olive rancher with vast stores of oil for export exemplifies the blessings of Asher's territory

Recognizing the magnetic pull of perceiving something thoroughly enjoyed • What did Rav Moshe Feinstein write about the prevailing cultural emphasis on having a "good time"?

How much fine flour is brought with Thanksgiving offerings? • Various meal offering components • What is required for the Thanksgiving offering loaves to become consecrated?

How do we know that once grain has taken root the Omer offering will permit its consumption? • When may harvesting precede the Omer offering? • Jericho: a lesson in when to let mistakes slide and when to protest erroneous practices • What constitutes a differentiation of one field into two for the purposes of designation of Peah, a corner for the poor?

What are the consequences of going off the derech? • The paths of darkness have poor visibility

Laws of harvesting the first oats offering on Shabbos and weekdays • When is a person who is wantonly catching fish on Shabbos, due to the act, nonetheless exempt from liability? • When is one liable for harvesting dried figs on Shabbos? • Minimizing creative labor on Shabbos to save a life • Mordechai the Master of Communications, harnessing a powerful wisdom for good

How to identify false ideologies • How to inure oneself from the magnetic influences of evildoers • Obfuscation of truth can be achieved by distortive crushing and perversity

How is parcooking distinct from cooking within the laws of Shabbos? • What actions render one liable for leavening a meal offering? • Consecration of dry and liquid service vessels • The prohibition of bringing leaven, honey, and sacrificial remainders onto the altar

At the fork in the road, when is it not sheer folly to take the more spiritually dangerous path? • When confronting temptation, transformative immersion in Divine Enlightenment can afford protection that legitimately emboldens towards risky behavior • The validity of Cain's approach rooted in fear of sin: low risk, low reward

If the first lamb of the Daily Offering was not brought, when should the second afternoon lamb be omitted as well? • If the High Priest dies after bringing the first half of his daily meal offering, what should the newly appointed High Priest bring that afternoon?

When wisdom dominates the heart there will be transformative multifarious sweetenings

Checking Tefillin • Testing for authentic Techeiles • What risks are associated with selling a Tallis to idolators? • May one purchase Tzitzis from Walmart? • Are women obligated in Tzitzis? • 100 blessings each day

When should blessing(s) over Tefillin be made? • How many blessings should be made on the Shel Rosh? • What is the root transgression that could endanger a soldier: not making a required blessing or making an unnecessary blessing? • Are Tefillin worn at night? • Must the high priest regularly touch the golden plate Tzitz on his forehead?

Infuse yourself with Divine Enlightenment towards optimizing human relationships • In less than ideal conditions, modification of the ideal path can provide a more appropriate contextualized means to the ideal

Wholesomeness is a quality that can be nurtured with the knowledge that God has many pathways towards the fulfillment of His will • Rav Moshe Feinstein's penetrating grasp: the pious are protected from stumbling • Why did Korach's rebellion warrant a new creation not included within the six days of creation?

What may consecrated salt be used for? • Where was consecrated salt stored, and what was done with it in various locations? • A less than gentlemanly disagreement • What is the significance of likening those who crossed the Sea of Reeds to those required to bring the half-shekel contribution to communal offerings? • When is the minority of an admixture not nullified?

Divine enlightenment is an inviolable foundation of creation that shields those choosing to be wholesome

If part of a communal offering becomes ritually impure before the blood was sprinkled, is it all treated as impure or is each component processed separately? • If at the time of slaughter, one intends to consume one component of a Thanksgiving offering after its expiration, are all components of the offering invalidated as Pigul?

How can we develop a thirst for Divine Enlightenment? • What steps are critical to successfully assimilate Wisdom into our being?

Can the High Priest consecrate his daily meal offering by placing the flour into two service vessels, or must it be consecrated in one vessel, even though it's consumption on the altar is divided and presented half in the morning and half in the afternoon? • Can a single ingredient of a meal offering be consecrated in a service vessel, or must all components be placed together to effect the consecration? • If under attack, can the priests consume their portions in the sanctuary or may they only be consumed in the courtyard?

What similarities should infuse our pursuit of livelihood and our pursuit of understanding Divine Enlightenment? • What is the approach of a treasure hunter, and how does that inform our approach to apprehension of Divinity?

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Did the floodwaters of the Great Deluge inundate the land of Israel? • In what tragic context would Chazal ever choose to encourage breaking up families? • What is the identity of the Re'em beast, and are buffalo considered wild or domesticated?

Becoming worthy children of God • How can we enhance our receptivity to Divine enlightenment? • Gleaning the nuances of moral valence requires revelation, whereas the discernement of Truth and Falsehood can be achieved through independent inquiry

Which priests have a share in the sacrificial gifts, and which are excluded? • The Rabbinic nuance of permissiveness for the same person to touch consecrated foods, while prohibiting his consumption of that food • The restrictions of an Onain (one experiencing bereavement prior to burial) to the Pascal and other sacrificial offerings

What does it mean to be considered a son of God - and how can we achieve it?

What sin offering bloods require laundering if spilled on garments? • After Melikah, does the neck of a bird offering have the status of a service vessel?

Wisdom affords security and serenity in this world and the next • By striving to discern wisdom about the Creator from His creation one merits to receive Divine Providence

Parameters of the prohibitions of sacrificial slaughter and service outside of the Temple • If something that should not be brought on the altar was nonetheless brought up, when should it remain, and when should it be removed? • When something that should remain on the altar is brought down, when should it be brought back up again?

Making ethical choices is good for longevity • The stressful inner turbulence of sin kills • Don't be lured to sin by the external gloss of serenity for the sinful

What happens if sacrificial blood is mixed with various liquids? • Can one prohibited item nullify a different prohibited item?

What happens if sacrificial animals get mixed up with various differential animals? • Why and how is Rabbeinu Tam lenient about consuming animals coming from a flock with a questionably mauled, but now unidentifiable animal in their midst?