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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.

Making a kosher run of wine

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

Oaths of testimony

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?

Embracing Divine Enlightenment and discipline brings grace to your mind and beauty to your speech

Why is Tractate Shavuos after Tractate Makkos? • Why is there unique specificity of liable forms of transport on Shabbos? • Who is the author of our Mishnah? • The evolution of Rebbi's understanding of the halachah

You are a prince! King Solomon calls you his son • The foundational value of parental guidance • With maturation we develop receptivity to Divine guidance • Divine wisdom molds human reason, which we cultivate towards the achievement of prophesy

The second tithe: When must it be consumed in Jerusalem, when can it be redeemed to be consumed outside of Jerusalem, when are there lashes for its prohibited consumption? • When is the second tithe considered to have entered Jerusalem, and what are the consequences? • Lashes for ripping out the hair on one's head or gashing one's flesh as an expression of mourning • Lashes for shaving ones beard, and sidelocks

What is the counterintuitive foundation to cultivate authentic experiential knowledge? • How does fearlessness towards one's Creator breed scorn towards wisdom and discipline? • How are ethical and scientific knowledge accumulated in fundamentally different processes?

Through Proverbs one can unlock the riddles of our Sages • Are Monotheism and Democracy incompatible?

When does a human initiate his Divine service and merit eternal life? • To be spared Purgatory's expansion to swallow up one's soul, what is necessary? • Who will survive the Apocalypse? • The exceedingly pious accept Divine justice without judging the Almighty • The Divine Attributes of patience and truth • The Idolatrous City

Mishlei is invaluable even for the wise and understanding • Increase your wisdom and expand your tactical repertoire

The tremendous power of providing for travelers • The importance of feeling shame for one's sins • The transgenerational trajectory of sin • Strive to perceive truths in what you encounter • What is the verdict for king Solomon? • The role of our interpersonal relationships within the framework of Divine Judgement

King Solomon will help dispel your naïveté • With the leverage of Proverbs, one can compensate for inexperience

What events will precede the messianic era? • What features of the Messiah's generation are anticipated? • The unique path to uncompromising truthfulness • The world epochs • Anticipating the Messiah

What you can acquire: Mussar Haskel, well reasoned guidance • Through these parable one can cultivate sound judgement, noble deployment of resources, and peaceful compromises

Types of false prophecies and their consequences • How to discern true prophecies from false prophecies • Scriptural sources for the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead • Queen Cleopatra, master of Psalms , inquires deeper into the resurrection

Access wisdom from the root • The importance of guidance • Where should one invest one's energies? • Where should one withhold further inquiry?

Various prohibitions subject to death at the hands of Heaven and their scriptural derivations • The debate between Rashi and Rambam about the consequences of performing temple service while uncircumcised

Contrasting the introductions between Mishlei and Koheles • Jerusalem's universal character, as reflected in the apocalyptic war and resolution • The pedagogical value of parables

How do we derive the punishment for an incestuous relationship between a father and his daughter? • Pursuing the development of healthy relationships is a straightforward strategy to prevent the development of unhealthy realtionships • What is the consequence of an illicit relationship with one's wife's grandmother? • What types of murder entail capital punishment?