When two things (or individuals, or communities) are connected, each retains their own separate identity. Their chommer remains separate but together they create a different tzura. When they are joined rather than connected, both are part of something new and different from each of them. Not only their tzura but even their chomer is changed. One connects through transaction. One joins through investment. 

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When a Ben Torah looks at sameness and difference, he views it through the lens of conceptual similarity and difference not an empirical one. Conceptual similarity and difference manifests through how each is treated in Halacha.

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What we do in life is ever-changing and needs to be attuned to circumstance and environment. How we do it is never-changing; it is governed by our covenant with Hashem. The Korban Oleh veYored is a circumstantial korban that is attuned to the socio-economic level of the individual, it is about the person’s product and therefore it is variable. How it is brought is governed by the never-changing Brit represented by the salt – especially in the case of the Mincha.

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The service of G-d is not about self-sacrifice, it is about elevating one’s life to the higher purpose of the service of Hashem (Korban). Self-sacrifice is just a necessary means to being able to offer one’s life to the service of G-d. When elevating our production to Hashem, sacrificing of that production is at the core of the service.

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The term Kometz has connotations both of abundance and scarcity.

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Clarifying the term Mincha and its relationship to the prayer of Mincha.  

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A compromise between two positions, denies the validity of both.  

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Demanding higher standards of a person is a compliment for that individual, not a criticism.

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In giving gifts to Hashem our intention is not to change His mind but to transform ours.

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We explore the degree to which units of time – hours, days etc. – are absolute ideas or relative to human experience.

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