The rules governing Kashrut were first formulated in a semi-nomadic social setting at the edges of the deserts and so sometimes their specific wording means that you can bend them around in funny ways.
Like for example the way that some ultra Orthodox machmirs frown on broccoli because its too hard to search for insects... which are not alright to eat.
Then there are some Jews over towards India who will mix milk and meat, just not the specific milk from the same animal with the specific meat from that same type of animal. Their response apparently when asked why they did not follow what everyone else did in not mixing any milk and meat... Moses said not to cook the kid in its mother's milk, it is only the Talmudic scholars who say to not mix any milk and meat. So who is greater Moses or Talmud?
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Date: 2008-10-29 08:20 pm (UTC)Like for example the way that some ultra Orthodox machmirs frown on broccoli because its too hard to search for insects... which are not alright to eat.
Then there are some Jews over towards India who will mix milk and meat, just not the specific milk from the same animal with the specific meat from that same type of animal. Their response apparently when asked why they did not follow what everyone else did in not mixing any milk and meat... Moses said not to cook the kid in its mother's milk, it is only the Talmudic scholars who say to not mix any milk and meat. So who is greater Moses or Talmud?
Its all traditions, responsa and argumentation :)