What's Kosher?

Question

What makes the food Kosher? and does all Jews insist on eating Kosher?

Answer 1

it is not blessed by a rabbi

and unfortunatly many Jews do not keep Kosher

this is what it is

http://www.jewfaq.org/kashrut.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosher

Answer 2

Kosher means fit for use. The Laws of Kashrut are the laws dealing with what food Jews can and cannot eat. For fish to be kosher, it must have fins and scales. For ground animals to be kosher, they must chew their cud and have a specific type of hoof. They must be killed according to specifications, so the animal doesn't suffer. Orthodox and Conservative Jews follow the laws regarding food, while only a small amount of Reform and Reconstructionist do follow them.

Answer 3

rabbis DON'T bless the food. how stupid are people really? that's insulting and borderline antisemitic.

kosher food is food that conforms to kosher laws:

1)separate mild and meat dishes.
2)speicfic animals are kosher.

that's it.

as for kosher supervision-- that is NOT necessary. you DON'T need a rabbi to supervise food in order to make it kosher!
the only time supervision enters the equation is when food is prepared in restaurants etc. and an individual wants a "gaurantee" that the food was prepared in conjunction with the kosher laws. (see #'s 1 and 2)

Answer 4

Kosher simply means the food is produced with the quality demanded by the religion, and is blessed by a Rabi

Answer 5

kosher

kosher [kṓshər]
adjective
1. ritually pure: describes food that has been prepared so that it is fit and suitable under Jewish law
2. preparing or selling kosher food: preparing or selling foods that are fit and suitable under Jewish law
3. real: genuine, not false or fake (informal)
4. lawful or proper: allowed by law, or regarded as correct or proper (informal)
Something's not kosher about his handling of the situation.



transitive verb (3rd person present singular koshers, present participle koshering, past and past participle koshered)
prepare kosher food: to prepare food in a way that is fit and suitable under Jewish law


[Mid-19th century. < Hebrew kāšēr 'fit, proper']

Answer 6

meat is kosher by the way its killed...cows for instance will have their throats slit & are left to bleed to death, while a rabbi is watching over...

Answer 7

food that has been prepared in a manner that conforms to Jewish dietary laws under the supervision of a Rabbi

Answer 8

if the process of how it was made was deemed clean by a jewish priest. If they were truly jew then I presume so.

Answer 9

It's a pickle...:)