Serious question. Please, no racist jokes or anti semitic answers.
2007-05-04 07:38:53 · 5 answers · asked by Arsobia64 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Because they are cleaners. They filter junk out of the sea water and make it clean and healthy for all other organisms in the ocean.
To eat them, is to eat the toxins.
Cat fish perform the same duty in fresh water.
Pigs perform the same duty on land.
2007-05-04 07:43:21 · answer #1 · answered by Max Marie, OFS 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because God told them they can eat anything that swims in the sea, as long as it has scales. Shellfish don't have scales.
On a more practical note, shellfish are difficult to keep fresh and poisoning from bad shellfish is an unpleasant experience.
2007-05-04 14:50:38 · answer #2 · answered by SoothingDave 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It says in the torah a fish that has fins and scales may be eaten (precise specs of what type of fins and scales are complicated) shellfish do not fall under this category
2007-05-06 17:39:00 · answer #3 · answered by Perplexed User 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
this was the covenant they made with God. because you see, even though we are all children of God, the Jews are his chosen people. so he made laws for them that would separate them from ordinary people,(that is why Jewish men get circumcised)
2007-05-04 14:52:08 · answer #4 · answered by N E G R O P L E A S E 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I believe it is because such things as crabs and lobsters are bottom feeders and eat waste and dead things. This is seen as unclean and/or unhealthy.
2007-05-04 14:43:52 · answer #5 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋