Kosher applies to food and other things, so...??
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Pork and Shrimp in a cream sauce
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it's only nice to hear when people know what kosher means...
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wow.do you have something against jewish?????????   the joke was funny... question:how are ya gonna choose the best answer????lol
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Yes, Jews are permitted to sell pork, as we see the prohibition as only that Jews may not eat it.  There may be a difficulty, however, if the Jew were to sell to another Jew.\n\nOddly enough, pork is NOT the most forbidden food.  Milk and meat combinations, such as a cheeseburger, are even more problematic.  Not only may I not eat it, I may not cook it, sell it, or even give it away as a gift to a non-Jewish buddy!
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Simple! No pork or any animal with split hooves, no shellfish, DO NOTTTTT mix meat with dairy (ex. lasagna) use a kosher turkey, you can get those at a kosher deli or store (the difference between a kosher turkey and a regular turkey is the way the turkey was killed at the kosher turkey was inspected by a Rabbi) Well, thats kosher in a nutshell, its a lot more complicated, but, that should be enough to get you by. Good luck and Happy Thanksgiving
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A resounding yes (to the previous post).  Passover is also relevant as it is symbolic of the way in which the blood of Jesus, the Lamb of God, shed for us, means we are forgiven of sin, and "passed over" by God's wrath and the death which all of our sins naturally earn for us.
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first off I have never heard of large pig farms in Israel.\n\nI am not saying they dont exist, but I have never heard of them.\n\nBesides that all the major grocery stores are under the auspices of the Rabbinate, and as part of Israeli law pork products and others are forbidden to be sold. I think the same is in PA areas.\n\nThat being said I think it is possible to get pork in Israel, but its very hard. You baicly have to search out for a small east European specialty store, and even that is imported. Most of the consumers of those places are not even Jewish but Russian immigrants.\n\nSo to answer your question the Pork consumption of Jews/Arabs in Israel is very, very low.
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To say that God didnt allow people to eat these things anciently because of no refridgeration or anything like that is absurd.  If you believe that then you would have to agree that God is not all knowing.  He must not have realized that one day in the future someone would invent a box to keep ice and meat in because if He did realize it then He surely He would have said "when the ice box in developed you may eat of these unclean animals".  \n\nThe problem here is translation the words "tahor" and "tamei" in hebrew do not translate well in to english so they chose the words "clean" and "unclean".  It is a spiritual teaching using physical things like a pig for instance.  But like any other commandment, if you strip the physical part of actually doing the commandment away, and only focus on the spiritual it will eventually loose its meaning thats why the physical is so important.  This would take me a while to explain but essentially the animals we are not to eat are scavengers, they devour other animals.  The animals that are edible chew cud.  Man was originally made to be vegetarian but when God allowed meat during the time of Noah, He chose animals that chewed cud.  If we were not going to be vegetarians then at least we would only eat animals that chewed cud so we were only one step away in the chain so to speak.  \n\nI dont want to ramble but this is a huge subject that needs to be taught.  There are so many other areas to cover like divided hooves and chewing cud being linked with rightly dividing the word and chewing on it until it becomes milk to feed "baby" believers in Yhwh.  There is really a lot there if you study it out.
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Way back when the good o'l book was a written. Pork was seen as a dirty animal and shell fish had no refrigeration, both were seen as good ways of getting sick, gods will kinda stuff.
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I would suggest looking at a kosher restaurant or any kind of business that is operated by observant Jews.
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Actually the Bible only condemns certain foods for Jewish people, later in the New Testament it says that all things are cleansed by God's grace with the giving of thanks. Basically the premeal prayer
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Well...I would say some of the things Jesus said were only relavant to the time. Since you are Catholic, and I am as well we can probably relate with some of this better. So here it goes:\n\nObviously some of the things that Christ talked about (such as the references to the types of clothing and locations in the world etc...) are general and relevant only to those of the time. I don't know many people who walk around wearing cloaks anymore and we don't execute people by crusifixion anymore so...some of those things are irrelevant, but are important for us to understand.\n\nThe whole thing about not eating pork could be taken a few ways. I don't know if that was because of refigeration...I doubt it, but it could be. Catholic's do not do it because we don't think it's needed. Food is food is food. To have something kosher just means that it must meet certain dietary laws. Jewish followers, as far as I know, are the only individuals who follow that law. It could be for refrigeration purposes, but I think it has more to do with how the passages and laws are interpreted than that. Probably something to do with passover or something...I really don't know, might want to ask a Jewish person that one.\n\nIs it possible that some of Jesus' words were only relevant to those he was talking to at the time? Sure! But Jesus came for the world, so his words are for the world! He may have said he gave the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven to Peter, but he didn't give them to me or you. They were for Peter and whoever Peter gave them to later on. So yeah, I'd say that's a fair statement.
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Cosha? You mean 'kosher'? That has to do with Jewish preparation, they have all kinds of rules too.\n\nMuslims and Jews do not eat pork of any type because the pig is considered an unclean animal. It's an omnivore, which means it can and will eat anything, and in the desert regions of the world, where these religions originated, the pigs ate whatever they could find, and it was often carrion, old rotting meat, even human remains ... so naturally pork wasn't considered safe for human consumption. If you look through old newspapers, you will find gruesome stories of pigs attacking very young children because the pigs are hungry and the children are there ... and easily overpowered. But the pigs are omnivores ... like us.
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the short and simple answer is that sex in Judaism is meant for reproduction, and of-course for a married couple only. Thus... sexual practices which are not meant for reproduction (i.e. Oral) are forbidden.  I think that the author of "Kosher Sex" (maybe you should get the book... see http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385494661/qid=1147814670/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-9769795-9535801?s=books&v=glance&n=283155 ) is easier on the issue, expanding what he interperts as allowed to also practices which indirectly LEAD to reproduction activity, but he is by no means an orthodox nor any authority on interperting the Torah.\n\nI hope this helps.
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Yes, Jesus was Jewish until He fulfilled the Old Law and brought in the New Law, which we call Christianity because we accepted Him as the Christ. The New Law allows us to eat pork, which was formerly forbidden.\nMy family happens to eat Tamales for Christmas. Yum! Our ancestors were from Castile, Spain, so that is our tradition.
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It is one of G-d's commandments to the Jewish people only. People have found practical (health) reasons to show this is beneficial. But actually, this is not the reason. The reason is that G-d wanted to take eating and food into the realm of holiness - to elevate this basic appetite (physical) and make it holy in the real world. Many of G-d's laws have this purpose - to take basic needs and appetites, and transform them, elevate them, in order to have spiritual holiness in our lives.
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To be Kosher the food must be prepared according to the laws of Kashrut - you can find them in the Torah.  Now as to the butchering, there is a class of Orthodox Jewish butchers who do just what you suggest -- take the time to 'kasher' the meats.  Foods that are not kosher are either 'treyf' (absolutely unkosher) or 'pareve' (which is kind of like neutral, neither kosher nor unkosher).  For more info, try the following:\n\nhttp://www.jewfaq.org/kashrut.htm\n\nHope I could help.