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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We must serve both with yir’ah (awe of Hashem) and ahava (love of Hashem). The outer expression is yir’ah; ahava resides more deeply inside of the individual.

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Adventure is dynamic but dangerous. Security is safe but static. The wonder of Torah lies in its balance of security and adventure.

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Although pesak is not decided solely on scientific criteria especially when these contradict chazal in the Talmud, nevertheless the Gemara shows great respect for scientific expertise and at times uses it for the purpose of input into halachik decisions.

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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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