Re'eh
Rabbi Schapiro on the Parshah: Re'eh
Lays out the five categories of what makes food forbidden, from the animal or fish itself to combinations like basar b'chalav, timing like Yom Kippur or Pesach, and actions like improper shechita, and explains why keeping kosher purely for health reasons undermines the mitzvah even when the food happens to be healthier. Surveys reasons given in seforim for specific details, such as an animal's characteristics transferring to the person who eats it, while noting these remain secondary to doing it because it is Hashem's ratzon. Develops the deeper idea that food is the necessary link joining the physical guf to the neshama, and that because a Yid's neshama is a chelek Elokah mimaal beyond nature itself, only food carrying the spiritual qualities of kashrus can bind the two together.
Parshas Re'eh
A vort on Parshas Re'eh exploring the Torah's allowance to eat meat without a sacrifice once settled in the Land, and Rabbi Yishmael's reading of the accompanying verse.