Sufficiency has both economic and health benefits. But its true value is in the quality of spiritual life it leads to 

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The halachik benefit of zerizut in our case is a model for the benefits of avoiding procrastination generally.

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G-d’s Divine attention is applied to each individual human being in the same way it is applied to an entire species of animal.

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We should be open to thee many routes to healing: some physical, some psychological and some spiritual. 

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Halachicly, a live animal is defined by whether or not it has been untethered from its source of life (see also Matmonim 27b) 

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We encounter further examples of how halachik definition is a world of its own separate from scientific definition.

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There are different types of rabbinic legislation, but all of them are designed to raise our consciousness of Yirat Shamayim.

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Apprenticeship to a great talmid chacham is an irreplaceable connection to source.

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The Torah distinguishes between kosher dead animals and dead animals that are not kosher. Both are called neveillah, both are tamei and cause contamination, but there is a nuanced difference between them.

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On daf 27b we learned that an animal’s source of vitality is the oxygen it enhales and the food it eats. When it is untethered from that source it is no longer a nefesh chaya even if biologically it continues to function. Shechita is the act of untethering an animal from its source of chayut, vitality. 

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