Daily Talk
The Rambam maps three prohibitions onto three dimensions of the animal — its life, its soul, and its sacred portion — revealing that kashrut is less about what we eat than about what we refuse to claim as our own.
The Theology of What Remains
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About This Talk
Chapters 5 through 7 of Hilchot Maachalot Asurot move inward through the body of the animal, from the limb torn from the living creature, through the blood that carries its nefesh, to the fat consecrated for the altar. Together they compose a theology of eating.