When something is physically repulsive it has elements of spiritual repulsiveness as well. 

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Hashem despises cruelty irrespective of what motivates it and of how it manifests.

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Torah is a body of knowledge, not information. What is the distinction between knowledge and information? Knowledge is whole, information is incomplete.

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When two or more people collaborate in a creative act, their creation belongs to neither of them, but to a different entity – the partnership between them.

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The halachik reality of the world in which a Ben-Torah lives is framed by the Torah as handed down to us by chazal, more than by the empirical knowledge we have of the world around us.

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“… Negative Capability … is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.”

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Halachik principles is broad and widely applicable. Halachik decisions are made from a tradition or from Halachik reasoning by someone that has both Love and Fear of Hashem.

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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