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Really? That’s really your position?

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I am deliberately releasing this post today, on the holiday of Shvuot.  I apologize if your comments will not appear until tomorrow- but that’s because I will be praying almost all day.  The 50th day since Pesach (Passover) is the day that the Ten Commandments were proclaimed by the Supreme Being, the day our Tora was granted.  It is traditional to spend all night studying, so that we may re-enact the feeling of the Israelites at the foot of Mt. Sinai.  I doubt I will be able to see the words of Hashem, as it is stated in Tora.  (The Tora proclaims that the words were seen. I have had the opportunity to see real sound waves; it was pretty scary, to be honest- but, amazing, at the same time.)

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A Kosher Company?

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Many of my friends wonder what this kosher thing is all about.  Some think the beef is better than regular meat, others think some rabbi waves a magic wand to make the meat kosher.   Let’s get real. Kosher “meat” (as opposed to dairy; all vegetables are kosher) is pretty simple- there are prescribed birds and proscribed animals.  Four legged animals must have a cleft hoof and be ruminants (‘chew their cud’ is the more common term).  Fish (anything from the sea) must have fins AND scales.  And, there’s a list of birds we can have (chicken, duck, etc.).   The animals have to be killed immediately and have their blood drained. Those are the basic rules.  There’s action afoot to include some other rules, but, to be honest, I doubt they’ll truly catch on.  But, that does not mean there haven’t changes.

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