Chullin 132 - Ch... Ch... Changes

0:00Propel Fitness Water with Gatorade Electrolites, Zero Sugar and Vitamins. Propel hydrates better than water to help you get the most out of your workout and get back to your best self. What propels you? Propel with Gatorade Electrolites. Propel Fitness Water with Gatorade Electrolites. Propel hydrates better than water to help you get the most out of your workout. Propel Fitness Water with Gatorade Electrolites. Propel Fitness Water with Gatorade Electrolites. Hey there and welcome back to Take One. The podcast that brings you just one fascinating page of Talmud each day. Fascinating because in today's page, Julin 132, we meet one of the most curious animals in all of the Talmud. The Koi. No, not that beautiful Japanese fish you see in ponds and pretty little gardens. This Koi is, well, have a listen. The Gamara Sites a dispute with regard to the gifts of the foreleg, the jaw and the maw. The sage is taught in the baraita, the obligation to give the foreleg, the jaw and the maw

1:03applies even to a hybrid animal and to the animal known as a Koi. Obeliezo says a hybrid that results from the mating of a goat and a you is obligated to have gifts of the priesthood given from it while a hybrid that results from the mating of a goat and a doe is exempt from having the gifts of the priesthood given from it. This is because the verse states with regard to gifts of the priesthood whether it be an ox or sheep, i.e., a domesticated animal and a doe is not a domesticated animal. So a Koi, there's obviously argument about that but most likely a hybrid animal, probably a part goat and part deer and as such is problematic because it is part wild animal and part domesticated animal and the rabbi's question whether such a creature, half wild, half domesticated counts towards the gifts were obligated to bring the Kohaneem or the priests. As always, the halalking discussion here is fascinating and you should absolutely read it but also as always, the bigger picture may even be more intriguing. Put simply, it may be hard for us to

2:07identify the Koi and decide just what to do with it because the Koi, well the Koi is us, part domesticated and part wild and therefore kind of in between when it comes to the law. Is there a better definition truly for us all? With just a few more days left in the month of alul, the Hebrew month of introspection leading up to Oshoshana, it's exactly this struggle between the domesticated side and the wild side that we ought to be focusing on. The wild side and the domesticated side is if you think about it as good a metaphor as it gets when it comes to the work of alul. One of these sides is shivering with desires and appetites urging us to ignore what we know is right and go ahead and take that bite, make that pass, break that rule because hey, Yolo, you only live once. The other side is settled and subtle and subdued, reminding us that we're part of something

3:09bigger, greater, more sacred and more profound and that if we keep up our commitment to our faith tradition and to our civilization, we can change and change, of course, is the essence of this time of year. My friend and teacher, Rabbi Eitzhuk Alderstein, explained in his great book about the famous Rabbi known as Nityvot Shalom that we really profoundly misunderstand the name for the holiday we're about to celebrate in just a few days. We think Oshoshana literally means the head of the year and it kind of literally does, but Rabbi Alderstein explains our wise old rabbis brought up a point of contention. Does God really celebrate or even acknowledge something as earthly and as human and as lowly as a year, 365 days have any meaning to God? Does God see himself bound by our normal ordinary units and notions of time? Of course not, which is why Rabbi Alderstein explains,

4:10for God, Oshoshana means something completely different. God understands Shana, not as the noun, meaning year, but as the verb meaning change, which is where we get the Hebrew word Shinoe or transformation. The new year, Rabbi Alderstein writes, in that world, meaning the heavenly world, means the capacity to affect newness and change in the inhabitants of our world. Or in other words, to tip the scales of our inner koi just a little bit, away from that beastly side and towards the side that's domesticated. There's no greater or more timely task and we have only a few more days left, so let's get to it. This has been Take One. If you enjoy the show and we hope that you do, you are really going to love the new-ish book by Liel called How the Tomod Can Change Your Life, surprisingly modern

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