Why aren't you supposed to eat pork if you are Jewish?

Answer 1

pork can carry the muscle parasite.. trichinosis...if you eat this you will be very sick....

most animals that ate trash off the ground or dead rotting things were considered unclean...because you coudl get sick eating the meat

Answer 2

Its not just pork- but any animal that does not have a cloven hoof AND chew he cud. Not just that- even a kosher animal has to eb killed in a specific way!

So the reason we do not eat iunkosher food has nothing to do with how unhealthy pork may have been- otherwise, why would animals killed in one way be kosher, but not in another?

So: Kashrut is one of those laws which are referred to as a "chok" (chukot in the plural in hebrew). the defining characterisitic of chukot is that they are not rational and not subject to being completely understood. Never the less, Rabbis across the millennia have tried to at least offer some explanations.

When it comes to kashrut- the most accepted explanation is that it helps to enhance our overall spirituality. Judaism sees our mission on earth as being one of learning, of spiritual growth. It is the time for our souls to grow and increase in their holiness since only in this world is there enough free will to make the challenge meaningful. So what has this to do with kashrut? Think of it this way: the bodies our souls are housed within are the same as any other animals bodies with the same physical needs. This means we need to find some way to change fulfilling those physical needs from the purely animalistic to the holy in order to uplift our bodies to the level of out soul. So sleeping is made holy through saying specific prayers before going to sleep and as we wake up, sex through marriage- and eating through kashrut.

Answer 3

Swine running loose are bad about stalking what the human body decides it doesn't need.

Eating pork that's been eating human excrement probably doesn't require a God to find fault with it.

Answer 4

Pork is not an animal, as someone said it was. It was the pigs that were considered unclean.

Answer 5

3,000 years ago, pork was a dangerous meat to eat, due to trichonosis. Religion cannot change, so even though pork is less dangerous now, it is not kosher.

Answer 6

Common sense which originated when pork was dangerous to eat.

Answer 7

Becasue pork used to be a very dirty animal. there is no current logical reason other than tradition of tribemen who would have been mesmorized by the "technology" of a wheelbarrel.

Answer 8

It was forbidden in the Old Testament and considered unclean.

Answer 9

Because G-d said so in the Tanakh(old testement), as simple as that

Answer 10

PORK IS NOT GOOD FOR YOU HOGS,PIGS ARE SCAVENGERS OF THE EARTH AND BOTH ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR OVER 2000 DISEASES ARTHRITIS THE MAIN ONE