Re: Reasons for Kashruth


"Shlomo Argamon" <argamon@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> Dan Kimmel wrote:
> > <moshes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > > "Dan Kimmel" <daniel.kimmel@xxxxxxx> writes:
> > > Now you're saying something else. That because the situation has
> > > changed, the rule should be dropped. That could only be said from a
> > > Conservative viewpoint. Orthodoxy doesn't drop rules. But even from
> > > your mindset, may I remind you that not every Jew in the world lives
> > > in America. (Right, Henry?) There are Jews elswhere who _do_ bring
> > > chickens to shochtim. You know what? I suspect that even in good ol'
> > > US of A there are people who bring chickens to shochtim and do their
> > > own salting. Would you want the rule to be different for people who
> > > buy pre-packaged chickens versus those who do it themselves?
> >
> > Since there is no chance nowadays that chicken and beef would be
confused
> > (assuming there ever was), the rationale for the rule is gone. I don't
see
> > how whether the chicken was personally slaughtered makes a difference.
The
> > basis for the law is about cooking a kid or a calf in its mothers milk,
NOT
> > about don't mix dairy with anything ritually slaughtered. That's
putting a
> > fence around the FENCE.
>
> First of all, the law about not eating meat cooked with milk is not a
> fence, it is the basic law - that is how the Rabbis understood the
> Biblical *idiom* in this case.

And then separating all meat and dairy is the fence. And then separating
POULTRY and dairy is the fence around the fence.

> Second, have you never had a turkey burger?

Unknowingly? Picking up a burger to cook and not knowing whether it was
beef or turkey? No, that has never happened.

>Third, batla ta`am, lo batla gezera - zil gmor.

Translation please.


>
> -Shlomo-
>


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