Do all Jewish people eat "Kosher" all the time?

Question

I'm still confused..No crab ever?...No cheeseburgers ever?...You can eat meat and chees in the same meal but not from the same plate?...So if it mixes in your stomach thats ok?....Its very confusing...I also don't get why?

Answer 1

all *religious* jews eat only kosher all the time.
I've never had crab or a cheeseburger in my life and never plan on having one.
We can't have meat and milk products in the same meal. In fact, I wait 6 hours before eating milk after I've had meat.

why -- G-d said so.

cheerio

Answer 2

Eating kosher takes discipline, especially for Jews who live in areas without kosher restaurants or lots of kosher food available.

But yes, for those who keep the kosher dietary laws, it's an usually an "all the time" comitment.

There are different opinions on the minimum time needed to wait between eating meat and dairy. Most folks go by 6 hours.
See:
http://www.askmoses.com/article.html?h=146&o=1338

Answer 3

First thing is first not ALL Jewish people eat Kosher.

Second thing is that if you keep kosher, than you have to wait ATLEAST 3 hours between milk and meat and you aren't alowed to eat them in the same meal.

Third thing is that most Jews keep kosher, because that was what they were commanded to do.
It is part of the Jewish relegion, there are some commandments with no given reason and there are some with, but it doesn't matter if there is a reason or not, you still do it. It is a major part of the Jewish relegion.

Answer 4

You cannot eat them in the same meal. There is a set time you have to wait after you eat meat before you can eat dairy. Also no shellfish or cheeseburgers ever.


Oh and not all Jews keep Kosher unfortunately.

Answer 5

I have never eaten crab or cheeseburgers, and don't know what they taste like. You can't have milk and meat even from two plates, and from milk to meat we need to clean our mouths, from meat to milk we need to wait 1-6 hours (Depending on custom; those with ancestors from Holland wait 1, Germany and Russia wait 3, Poland and Mideast wait 6). Once they've been swollowed, they can mix. The reason is either 1) G-d's decree, with no known reason, just made as a test. 2) It was originally an idol worship, to eat an animal in it's own mother's milk, so we can't have it in any form.

Answer 6

No cheeseburgers ever. No pepperoni pizza. No pepperoni at all, actually.
No meat and cheese at the same meal. Good thing was I did not have to drink milk with supper, I got soda instead!
Back in Biblical days dishes were wooden or unglazed pottery. Using the same dish for meat and milk could lead to the growth of bacteria. So they used separate dishes. Pigs were fed garbage. You could get sick from eating their meat, especially if it was undercooked. So no pork chops.

This is part of the scientific reason. The religious reason is different. Lots of good info on www.beliefnet.com

Answer 7

No, jews do not eat Kosher i have a Jewish teacher in my school and he eats pork all the time with milk... but i also knew a student who never ate Pork... i am a muslim and Kosher is our second choice after Halal.. both are same and both are allowed in Islam.. muslims also cannot eat PORK.. that pinky filthy yukhy animal...ewww! But muslims can eat meat and dairy at the same time!

Answer 8

no, not all do.
reform jews tend to not eat kosher, but the conservative and orthodox do, for the most part.

some jews eat kosher at home, but realize that if they go out, it's hard to eat kosher so they don't. some only eat kosher on holidays and the sabbath.

the basic rules are, you can't eat pork, you can't eat meat and dairy in the same meal, you can't eat stuff that comes from the sea and doesn't have scales, and you can't eat anything that flies but doesn't have feathers (bats).

jews who keep kosher even have seperate sinks for meat and dairy, seperate plates, and seperate pans.

the no meat and dairy rule comes from the text in the torah that says you can't boil a kid in its mother's milk.

to jews its not about being healthy or pork chops killing you or anything, it's much more fundamental than that. god chose the jews and gave them 613-ish laws to live by. it's not supposed to be easy to be jewish. it's a lifelong committment to god. only those who can do what god says, faithfully, can be jewish. christianity got rid of those laws to make it easy for pagans to convert, to make it easier to be christian.

Answer 9

You are asking excellent questions indeed. The laws of ideas of kosher are complexed and not easy to explain in detail in a few sentences. I would highly suggest that you get this great book called "Kosher for the Clueless but Curious", it will help you understand all about Kosher. You can read this artcile http://ohr.edu/yhiy/article.php/993
to get a quick overview on the topic.

Answer 10

Under some circumstances even Orthodox Jews are dispensed from kosher law: while fighting in the military, if kosher food is impossible to get, etc. I wonder what the position of Islam is on this.