Kashrut

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Leviathan

28 March 2016

A discourse of Shabbat Shemini 1965. This Sedra includes the laws of kashrut. The Midrash links this with a battle between the Leviathan and another mystical creature, the 'wild ox'. This becomes a...

Living In Context

The tension between environment and free choice, examining Moses's warning to the Jews entering Canaan about the dangers of assimilation. The Lubavitcher Rebbe's insight is that kashrut, broadly...

Why Shechitah Is Important

5772

On the contemporary threat to shechitah and the spiritual rationale behind kosher slaughter, explaining that the Torah restricts meat-eating to ensure it is done with awareness of its spiritual...