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From: dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: kosher meats
Message-ID: <2887@utcsrgv.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 4-Dec-83 13:48:42 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec  4 13:48:42 1983
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Organization: The Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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>>  From: debray@sbcs.UUCP (Saumya Debray)
>>  	"For an animal to be Kosher (clean) it must chew its cud
>>  	 and have divided hooves."
>>  I'm wondering why chewing cud and having divided hooves should be linked
>>  with the "cleanliness" of an animal.  Any ideas?

It has nothing whatsoever to do with cleanliness. The mistake in the original
quote was in including the word "clean". Kosher means "permissible for
consumption under the terms of the Jewish religion", *not* clean. The
basis for the laws is not cleanliness, but observance of divine commandments.

See net.religion for related discussion.

Dave Sherman
Toronto
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