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Every meritorious act bears fruits • When do sinful acts bear fruit? • What underlies the asymmetry of their dynamics? • Harmful satiation
Wisdom is about making choices in the present to actualize a superior future, but does not erase the problems of presently compounded follies • A heart imbued with the fear of God enables the sharpening of moral intuition towards Divine Enlightenment through philosophical inquiry • Aversion to adapting oneself underlies a lack of drive to investigate wisdom
Which parts of an offering cannot become Pigul? • When something invalid is brought on the altar and subsequently removed, when should it ascend to be offered on the altar?
Does slaughter with intent to leave the blood or sacrificial parts over beyond their expiration invalidate the offering? • Does performing the service with intent to have the offering consumed by the ritually impure after expiration generate Pigul?
When someone articulates two seemingly contradictory intentions, is the first articulated intention definitive, or, if the true desire was meant to incorporate both intentions, would that validate the second intention, impacting the results?
Requirements for washing before the Temple service • How and why is a fish-eye ritual bath kosher? • How is the assessment of foreskin as repulsive halachically relevant? • When does ritual impurity invalidate the Temple service?
Would Wisdom ever laugh at those who reject her? • Would God ever laugh at His handiwork? • When is mercy forbidden?
What is required for valid transport of the sacrificial blood? • If transport was done inadequately, can it be rectified? • Who is ineligible to perform sacrificial service? • How do we derive the exclusion of a non-kohain?
Nuances within the Mitzvah of honoring Torah scholars • The essential importance within Torah of both reaching towards halachic conclusions and towards the infinite and inscrutable
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