Showing posts with label Kashrut. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kashrut. Show all posts
Thursday, August 9, 2018

Parsha Re'eh: A Spiritual Life Lesson on Judaism's Prohibition of Mixing Meat and Dairy

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Food plays such a major role in our lives. We eat three meals a day, not to mention food is a great way to bring people together. What we do...
Thursday, April 20, 2017

Parsha Shemini: Jews Allowed to Eat Pork? When Pigs Fly!

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In this week's Torah portion, G-d provides guidance on Jewish dietary law, or kashrut, in Leviticus 11 . The chapter talks about the nu...
Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Parsha Shemini: There's Something Fishy Going On

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Thinking up a blog entry for this week's Torah portion wasn't as easy as shooting fish in a barrel, but I was able to come up with t...
Saturday, May 21, 2011

Magen Tzedek: Dealing with Food Politics in Judaism

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In recent past weeks, the Magen Tzedek initiative started by the Conservative movement has been getting a bit of heat.  What the Magen Tzed...
Sunday, September 5, 2010

Can We Modify the Definition of Kashrut?

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We are what we eat.  The more I study Jewish dietary laws and the reasoning behind them, I find that dietary choices reflect one's perso...
Friday, March 19, 2010

Jews Should Be Vegetarians

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That’s a ballsy statement to make—Jews should be vegetarians. Usually, when people hear something like that, one automatically thinks of the...
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Thursday, December 17, 2009

Maimonidean Approach on Ethical Kashrut

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In the last blog, I was discussing how kashrut was created to cultivate man . I ended with the beginning of a "discussion" between...

Kashrut as a Moral Cultivator

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"The Torah's commandments were not given to humankind for any purpose other than to refine people." -Genesis Rabbah 44:1 Acc...
Wednesday, December 16, 2009

The Nationalistic Side of Kashrut

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Proponents of kashrut state that one of the reasons for kashrut is because it maintains Jewish particularism. Guess what? I agree! Having pr...
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Is Kosher Food "Soul Food?"

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Last time, I disproved the notion of HaShem implementing kashrut because it's good for the body. This time, I look into whether kashurt ...
Saturday, December 12, 2009

Why Kosher?

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Why Kosher?   It is the title of a book that I started reading today.  It is also a question I have been asking myself lately.  Between the ...
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