Re: Dvar Torah for Chanukah (Breslov)


"Steve Goldfarb" <slg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote
Harry Weiss <hjweiss@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

Rennet (and gelatin) lose that meat status once they get to a point of not
being edible. There is a different question about the Kashrut itself.

Rennet and gelatin are both edible - they're added to food and eaten all
the time. Plate residue, on the other hand, is not edible. (unless you can
eat ceramics)

Please try again :-)

But that's the halachah, regardless of whether it fits your preconceived
notions of what is or is not meat. True, both are derived from animal, but
neither are flesh, and halachah is more subtle than you seem to think. It
does not use sledgehammers to crack nuts, and where possible it seeks a
lenient position; remember the process here, the plain reading of the text
in the Torah is *a* _kid_ in *its* mother's milk, but because milk from many
goats is kept in a single bucket all kids must be forbidden from being
cooked in the milk from any goat, and because goats' milk and sheep's is
hard to tell apart and because lamb and goat meat is also difficult to
distinguish the proscription is extended to cover all meat (including
chicken even though chickens clearly don't lactate) and all milk. To then
permit gelatine (made from dried, bleached and ground bone, usually from
cows) and rennet is a step back towards the literal position of a single kid
in its own mother's milk.


Fiona


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