[Sca-cooks] Mrs Levy again

[Laura C. Minnick]

At 10:39 PM 9/8/02 -0400, you wrote:

>Phillipa, I spoke to a friend who is a Reform Jew, and her
>explanation of the rationale against using salt pork medicinally is
>that even touching it makes one ritually unclean, at least in theory.
>I can't vouch for the veracity of the claim, I can only report that
>that was what I was told. This from a lady happy to report that she
>is now too old to have to fast for Yom Kippur... ;-)
>
>Adamantius

As I read the Old Law, yes. Touching something unclean makes you unclean,
and then you will swell up and be dead until morning... oops, wrong Cosby
bit. At any rate, there's lots of jiffy keen instructions for cleansing
after touching the Unclean- be it pork, misc. carrion, a menstruating
woman, etc. And then you have to go and get the priest to declare you ok
again...

Since I was a little kid, I always thought they must have spent a LOT of
time in the bathroom, trying to get clean...

Eating salad and feeling penitential,

'Lainie
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