In halachik statistics there is a significant difference between statistical averages and behavioral norms. Statistical averages have a higher level of authority than behavioral norms.

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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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