Halal and Kasrut: What do they have in common?

Question

Islam and Judiasm both have dietary laws that dictate what is and is not allowed to be eaten. I want to know what sources they have in common. Did Halal arise from cross-pollination from the Old Testement Kashrut, or is it a totally separate system?

Answer 1

Mohammad created Islam as an Arabic formulation/understanding of Judaism. The original intent was to convert the polytheistic Arabs to monotheistic Judaism.

When the Jews refused to adopt his understanding, he changed the practices of Islam to pray towards Mecca, not Jerusalem.
From that point, Judaism considered Mohammad's beliefs and practices to be be heretical. Prior to that his beliefs were acceptable, but just barely so. [Remnants of that can be seen in the Halacha ruling that one may convert from Orthodox Judaism, to Orthodox Islam, without losing one's soul, if the option is to either convert, or be beheaded.]

The major difference between Halal, and Kashrut, is that the former requires a prayer to be said whilst the animal is being slaughtered. The latter simply requires it to be said prior to slaughter --- one prayer suffices for all animals killed that day.

The most obvious difference between the two is that Kashrut prohibits eating Camel, whilst Halal allows it.

Answer 2

Kashrut is very comprehensive including bans on some food (pork, shellfish, some regular fish etc...) it also specifies how animals are to be killed. Dairy and meat also are forbidden together.

Halal just forbids pork as far as I know but I am not sure.

Answer 3

Christianism, Jewism or islam, every one had this philosiphy,
Halal is what Allah the Almighty has allowed us to eat and Haram is what Allah the Almighty has stopped us from eating.
As muslims believe that Mosus (peace be upon him) was the messenger of Allah the Almighty, whatever he told was by the order of Allah the Almighty, Then Jesus (peace be upon him) came as messenger of Allah the Almighty, whatever he told was by the order of Allah the Almighty.
Finally Muhammad (peace be upon him) came and conveyed the message of Allah the Almighty that what to do and what not to do.
So the source is always the same that is Allah the Almighty.

Answer 4

Well what i know about Halal is that it cant be pork. You must say the name of god when you are sliting the animals neck and when you fish you cant just pick up any old dead fish out of the ocean, you also cant eat a bird that finds food with its feet. In the jewish religion they also cant eat pork

Answer 5

I believe Jews eat Kosher meat. BTW there is no restriction for muslims to eat Christian or Jews meat. Christian Jews meat is Halal too according to Qur'an.

Answer 6

while one could guess that historically there is a drvative nature, these web sites will show the similarities and differences:

http://meat.tamu.edu/kosher.html

http://www.soundvision.com/info/halalhealthy/halal.kosher.asp

the second isn't working well, but if you type it into a google search, you can read the cache.

Answer 7

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