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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 shoc...

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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