Question about Kosher foods?

Question

What are the rules in preparing Kosher foods?

Why is it forbidden to combine dairy products with meat?

Thank you

Answer 1

These laws are complex. You should refer to http://www.ou.org/kosher/primer.html for details.


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Answer 2

Basics:

anything that grows from the ground is kosher.

fish (sea creatures) with fins and scales are kosher

The Torah gives a list of birds that are NOT kosher and describes animals with split hooves and chews cud as kosher species.

For birds and animals, they have to be slaughtered properly, not found to have been in poor health (lesions on lungs) and all free flowing blood and large blood vessels need to be removed.

For any food that is processed, ie cooked, all ingredients must be kosher, all utensils must be kosher, and some part of the cooking must be performed by a Jew.

Milk & meat: the paradigm for this is the cooking of a kid (baby) in its mother's milk. this is simply cruelty and cruelty is not generally permitted. Ultimately, however, it is because God said so....and in this case, said so 3 different times.

Answer 3

No blood. No fat. Duet 14:21 Ex.23:19 Ex.34:26 Since it is in Scriptures 3 times, the "Jews" accept it. On the other hand (if you are seeking truth) in Gen 18:8 Abraham offered a non Kosher meal to the heavenly visitors, and was not corrected.

Answer 4

I think that God decreed this combination because of health and hygiene reasons. If you look at all the rules they make perfectly good sense why you would not eat certain things or combination of things considering the fact that hygiene was poor in those days and there was no such thing as refridgeration.

Blood (from the meat) coagulates and makes the milk curdle, for example. Shellfish was also forbidden because of the ease with which it would go off. Cloven hooved animals tended to be routing around in unsavoury rubbish and therefore prone to picking up and passing on infections ......

God did change the rules, though I cannot remember scripture and verse when he appeared to one of the disciples in a dream and encouraged him to eat.all that was previously unclean, just not to eat that which had been offered upon an altar to another "god".

Answer 5

No Dairy and Meat

No Pork, No Shellfish

Kosher Animals have split hooves and chew their cud.

No Fish unless it has scales and fins

Kosher animals must be killed in a specific non painful fashion and completely drained of blood.

That is the basics and we do it because it is commanded by G-d

Answer 6

Oh wow there are whole books on that! Seriously, get a book, because you are going to get soooo many different answers. There are different....what's the word....I don't want to say "levels"....different interpretations of kashrut, different people, different rabbis, different congregations or denominations have different rules. ie, in a super-orthodox household you have to have two refrigerators (one milk, one meat) whereas in more reformed or liberal households they feel that is going too far.

The thing about milk and meat comes down to a scripture that says you shall not boil the kid (the young) in its mother's milk. To me, that sounds pretty straighforward, but the milk/meat thing has been built around it, to ensure full compliance with the Law. (Jewish law is based both on the literal word of the scripture and on the interpretation of the Rabbis, many of whom seem to have a "better to go too far than not far enough" attitude)

Answer 7

Ultimately, the reason there are hundreds and hundreds of rules and regulations within Jewish Law was for God to show man that we cannot, ever, hope to conform to the Law.
God then sent his Son, Jesus Christ (as a Jew - as a perfect Jew!) to bring the New and Everlasting Covenant to abolish the old covenants and bring his People into the new faith.
Jesus declared that he did not come to abolish the Law, but to fulfill it. It is through him, Jesus Christ, that we should live out our lives.
God even tried to show the Apostle Peter with a vision of animals that "what God has made clean, no longer consider unholy." (Acts10:15)
Christianity started with a Jew and it will end with THE Jew. All those that do not conform to His Law shall be destroyed.

p.s. I love Kosher!

Answer 8

What religion are you referring to? Because Christianity says nothing against mixin dairy products with meat. If I didn't have cheese on my burger, I'd go crazy!