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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?
Which services are on the upper part of the altar, and which on the lower? • Why are elevation bird offerings easier to process at the southeast corner of the altar? • The astounding strength and technical skill needed in performing the bird offerings • Distinctions between bird elevation and sin offerings
Various laws pertaining to offerings that are partially consumed by people • For how long may a firstborn offering be consumed, and how is that derived?
Every meritorious act bears fruits • When do sinful acts bear fruit? • What underlies the asymmetry of their dynamics? • Harmful satiation
Wisdom is about making choices in the present to actualize a superior future, but does not erase the problems of presently compounded follies • A heart imbued with the fear of God enables the sharpening of moral intuition towards Divine Enlightenment through philosophical inquiry • Aversion to adapting oneself underlies a lack of drive to investigate wisdom
Which parts of an offering cannot become Pigul? • When something invalid is brought on the altar and subsequently removed, when should it ascend to be offered on the altar?
Does slaughter with intent to leave the blood or sacrificial parts over beyond their expiration invalidate the offering? • Does performing the service with intent to have the offering consumed by the ritually impure after expiration generate Pigul?
When someone articulates two seemingly contradictory intentions, is the first articulated intention definitive, or, if the true desire was meant to incorporate both intentions, would that validate the second intention, impacting the results?
Requirements for washing before the Temple service • How and why is a fish-eye ritual bath kosher? • How is the assessment of foreskin as repulsive halachically relevant? • When does ritual impurity invalidate the Temple service?
Would Wisdom ever laugh at those who reject her? • Would God ever laugh at His handiwork? • When is mercy forbidden?
What is required for valid transport of the sacrificial blood? • If transport was done inadequately, can it be rectified? • Who is ineligible to perform sacrificial service? • How do we derive the exclusion of a non-kohain?
Nuances within the Mitzvah of honoring Torah scholars • The essential importance within Torah of both reaching towards halachic conclusions and towards the infinite and inscrutable
Ignoring Wisdom will undermine potential excellence and result in dire consequences
When is the anointed high priest required to bring a bull sin offering for his error? • Are all members of Sanhedrin required to be capable of issuing halachic rulings? • Is the high priest required to bring a sin offering if no erroneous ruling about idolatry preceded his negligent act of idolatry?
Wisdom implores us to remove impediments and allow its continously flowing spirit to resonate within us
Making a ritually pure or kosher run of wine with second hand vessels • When moist grape clusters are touched by an idolator, are other contents within the wine press rendered not kosher? • When is ritual immersion required for newly acquired vessels? • How are different types of non-kosher absorptions removed? • When will absorbed non-kosher flavors from a non-kosher pot render its contents biblically forbidden?
The first steps toward Wisdom entail cultivating healthy receptivity by freeing ourselves from various bonds that prevent enlightenment
When prohibited food falls into permissible food and imparts an off flavor, may one consume the mixture? • The Rambam and Tur disagree about whether or not distinct prohibitions join together when calculating their negation • Where does Rebbi Shimon acknowledge the oral tradition from Sinai of liability for the consumption of an olive's volume of prohibited foods? • Squirrel beer • Why may one consume honey with bees' legs?
A person should be receptive to truth, yet discerning, like a city with an open gate.
When and how does an animal that was worshipped become prohibited? • Surprisingly, the Shulchan Aruch rules in accordance with the Tur against the Rambam and Ran (the Rif and Rosh are mysteriously silent about Chalipei Chalipin)
Wisdom is a source of paternal protection • Should Torah be taught in the marketplace?
Various rabbinic food prohibitions and leniencies • Identification of kosher fish extract, roe, and entrails • God's unwitting guardians
The hunter lies in ambush for his unwitting prey, as the exploitative sacrifice their own souls • Stealing robs the victim of his livelihood and is akin to murder
When and why is one permitted to sell to a non-Jew, yet prohibited from selling to a Jew? • How can uncooked wine be poured by an idolater without generating a prohibition for a Jew? • A three day purification plan for vessels used to store prohibited wines
One's native sense of justice can protect a person from falling prey to the allure of that which is too good to be true
The prohibition of bringing an idolator into the world • Cold truce with idolators • War tactics with those who attack our people • Who can perform circumcisions?
What to learn • How to learn • Though rooted in a similar inquisitiveness, attraction of Wisdom is initially less engaging than attraction to Folly, but once pursued, Wisdom is ultimately just as compelling • If one labored for an idol, when are the earnings permitted, and why?
Evil is self destructive • The speed and thoughtlessness of evil militate towards its unavoidable recklessness
Is a Jew permitted to live in a city that has a church? • Prohibitions that ensure one avoids giving the impression of worshipping idolatry • Avoiding various dangers
Conscientiously avoid forging friendships with the wicked and reject their ideologies
Elasticity of free will • Demonstrating the awesome power of repentance was more important than providing fortification against losing an angelic and immortal state • With gratitude, seek Divine assistance to strengthen your heart's fear of Him • With Torah, selfless kindness guides one's character towards mastery over the evil inclination • According to Tosafos, offering a sacrifice lacking in wholeness is a full transgression, so why is it not enumerated as an eighth law of Noah?
Whitewashing sin: Is it your destiny? • Shared spoils are more fun and give less heartburn
When did the sages flip the oath to the counter-party? • When is a threat presumed to be serious or empty? • When the employer and employee disagree about the agreed upon wage, how and why is the employer favored? • What type of prior oath violations disqualify a person from being able to swear or testify?
The unknown provides a heightened sense of excitement • Contrasting perspectives on wealth
Biblical oaths for men and women • How much denial and admission to liability renders one obligated to swear or pay? • Why are even the righteous punished when someone takes a false oath? • Since only one party is lying, why are both parties surrounding the oath held responsible for the desecration of God's name? • The languages of court administered oaths
Glorification of victimhood is an intolerably false paradigm of virtue which leads towards the brutish ethos of pragmatic violence
Oaths of articulation, oaths in vain, and oaths of witnesses • When is one liable to bring an offering or to receive lashes?
An invitation to join the mob • The desensitizing effect of repeated bombardment • A warped sense of justice
Being emotionally anchored in the goodness of wisdom affords protection from vulnerability to the seduction of sinfulness
Sacrificial consequences of errors in national guidance and errors of personal negligence • What are positive imperatives within the niddah prohibition of intimacy with a ritually impure woman? • Is one liable for forbidden flaccid relations? • Significant consequences of maintaining or negating required separations • The beautifying sanctity of modest intimacy
When and how are consecrated items eligible to have their sanctity transferred?
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