In matters of Kashrut we tend to zoom in on the object, the food, its contents and components, the way it has been processed, its technology etc. But the Torah’s concern is with the subject, the individual who observes these laws and how it elevates him. 

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How the blood of a korban transforms once the required avodah on the mizbeach has been performed with it.

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For an animal or plant, fueling a noble human life has greater “kedusha” than generating new life.

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Jews and Gentiles don’t differ genetically or racially. Their difference is a qualitative one of kedusha. The kedusha of Jewishness is available to any human being. The way a Jew engages with kedusha and with the world through kedusha, is totally unique.

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We are obsessed with robots that act like humans. But what about humans who act like robots? How accountable are they for their actions? 

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When a talmid chacham gives advice or expresses an opinion, it is not just his personal view that he is expressing. His personal views infact totally merge with da’at Torah (the view of the Torah according to his understanding of it as taught to him by his rabe’im). His opinions then are halacha. This is especially so when the gemarra itself quotes opinions. 

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An animal’s source of vitality is the oxygen it enhales and the food it eats. A fish’s source of vitality is the water in which it lives. Removing a fish from water is like severing an animal’s trachea and oesophagus. A human’s source of vitality is the society in which he lives. What is a Jew’s source of vitality? 

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For there to be harmony and integration, there must first be the recognition of disparateness. Disparateness, and the abitlity to discern it, is the condition for beauty, harmony, wholeness and integrity. This is the power of havchannah, discernment. This is the foundation of humanness and is represented in the structure of the letter aleph - א 

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In exploring differences between the laws of Shabbat and of Tum’ah, we highlight the differences between a focus on activity and a focus on results.

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Knowing what to answer is information mastery. Knowing how to answer is human mastery. 

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