Re: Chickens vs. cows (was Re: Beth HaWaadh Permits Eating of Kitniyoth)

Don Levey <Don_SCJM@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
"Joel Shurkin" <jshurkin@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
mos...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Joel Shurkin <jshur...@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
Susan S <otoeremovet...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
How many people do you know who are so easily confused? Honestly, do you
go around saying, "Stupid Jews, don't know wheat from corn or rice."?

Same ones who think chickens look like cows, i guess.

Joel, it's one-liners like this that make me despair of you. The
reasons for adding fowl to the rules of meat-and-milk-mixtures has
_nothing_ to do with "chickens look like cows" and you know it. Or
you should because it's been discussed here many times.

Cows need slaughter. Chickens need slaughter. Blood of cows is
forbidden. Blood of chickens is forbidden. Both are precessed in the
kitchen the same way; slaughtered, salted, soaked and rinsed. At this
point the rules diverge but they've been handled together for quite
a while.

I don't know about you, Moshe, but I don't slaughter either cows or
chickens in my kitchen and there no longer is any reason for chicken
to be considered the same as meat. But no one appears to have the
courage to actually say so. I get sarcastic but you get the point.


We've come across a number of things which, in these times, no longer
seem to have applicability. And yet the law/custom remains. The
question, then, revolves around who is empowered to change it. If you
believe that a reconstituted Sanhedrin is not necessary, then what is
your Law committee doing about it? If you do believe that it is
necessary... Well then, that would be the answer, no?

Sorry Don, I don't think Joel has made a case for "no longer seem to
have applicability". He did use a snide remark to make the rabbis
look stupid, but that ignores the real reasons of the legislation.

Moshe Schorr
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The home and family are the center of Judaism, *not* the synagogue.
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