Our relationship to sefarim is not merely an intellectual one, but a sensual one as well.

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Kedusha – a bi-directional flow of Divine energy between Heaven and Earth.

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What we say springs from deep within us. What we write could be similarly authentic, or it could be palguarized or copied from elsewhere. We need to be clear in our thought and communications whether we are expressing our own, authentic, deepest thoughs or we are communicating the ideas of others. When communicating the ideas of others, perfect accuracy must be insured.

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Awe opens deep spiritual pathways that enable wonder. Familiarity closes these pathways. The moment of entrance is when all the drama happens.

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Giving one’s produce away to someone in need or to a higher purpose is initself an offering of life force just as throwing the blood is in the case of a zevach, an animal offering.

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The Tzitz can effect change in the status of an object, but cannot correct the thoughts of a person.

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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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