SC - Fleischig and Milchig

[Jenne Heise]

> >>> Wasn't the only reason chicken is considered Fleishig
> >>> because otherwise people would be confused? The base
> >>> commandment is 'thou shalt not boil the kid in its
> >>> mother's  milk' and chickens don't have milk!
> I wasn't there at the time, so I don't know.  <S> 
>  The specifics of which animals may or may not be considered kosher, and so on, are in
>the Talmud, not the Torah.  (For those of the Christian faith, what you call the
>Pentateuch is our Torah.)  As far as I can tell, and I am not a Talmudic scholar,
>chickens and other non-predatory birds are included as "fleishig" because they have
>blood, and because they are dead animals when we eat them while the milk comes from a
>living animal.  It is important to remember from where comes the food, and not mixing
>the dead and living is one way to do so.

I do know that the milk and meat provision comes from that verse in the Torah (there's a
Jewish joke about it), and is a Talmudic interpretation of that verse. Somewhere along
the line I read something that reproduced a quote attributed to one of the great
Talmudists of history, to the effect that mixing chicken and milk would not be a
violation of Torah, but it would confuse people. This may of course be apocryphal or just
plain wrong: I wouldn't know.

- -- Jadwiga, the shiksa

- -- 
Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, mka Jennifer Heise	      jenne at mail.browser.net
disclaimer: i speak for no-one and no-one speaks for me.
"The worst thing I can say of a person is, 'they couldn't be bothered'."