Thursday, July 5, 2018

Practices And Law With Kosher Meals

By Brian Ellis


This type of cooking is not understood by Gentiles and is something that is practiced by Jews alone. Kosher meals provide many with nutritious ingredients and there is a lot that must be understood when purchasing these. There is a process that is followed and abided by that has been handed down through the millenia.

For one, meat that is prepared must be Shechted by a Shochet. This means that these people are fully aware of the laws that are contained in this practice and besides this, are all completely practicing Jews in their own right. One has to study many years to become a Shochet or ritual slaughterer and besides this, one must abide by all the other laws of this Religion, Judaism.

For example, a Shochet or slaughterer is employed to do all the slaughtering for the community and is a highly qualified individual and well versed and learned in all the laws pertaining to this field of study. It takes years to qualify and besides this, he must be a practicing Jew as well and keep all the laws that govern this religion. These include being Shomrei Shabbos or Shabbat observant too as well as the many other practices that are kept by Religious Jews throughout the world.

Kashrut or Kosher laws are extensive and these include finding their place in the home as well. The kitchen must be cleaned and surfaces demarcated for both meat and milk separately. Only certain foods are rendered kosher by law such as meat which must chew the cud and have cloven hooves.

Laws of Kashrut extend to the kitchen too where surfaces must be kept separate when preparing both meat and milk dishes. These must definitely not be mixed as stated in the Torah or Bible. So it would therefore be uncommon to find a fully fledged practicing Jew or Jewess eating a cheeseburger for example.

At home these laws extend to the kitchen where two separate zincs are used for washing up purposes. There must be two sets of dishes one for meat and one for milk and these must be cleaned and kept separate at all times. Apart from this, separate working surfaces are used to prepare for these two differing meals and there is strict code involved not to let the two mix at all.

These laws are about maintaining a sense of holiness. This is why meat and milk are kept separated as it is written in the Torah or Five Books of Moses. Foods that are not allowed to be consumed are rendered unholy and must not be eaten at all.

Some ideas here have been touched upon but there are many more that make up this section of Jewish Law. One can be certain that if food is obtained from a reliable source it will certainly have been approved by a Rabbinical Court. Eating is great and its best to keep it within the realm of Kashrut if done so.




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