SC - Fleischig and Milchig

[Susan Fox-Davis]

Maybe one of the Talmudic scholars got a look at the artistic convention of the Pelican in
her Piety and made an assumption?  I'm just glad I'm really not Kosher. <squawk?>

Selene

Jenne Heise wrote:

> > >>> 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