[Sca-cooks] Fish at feasts

Gretchen Beck grm at andrew.cmu.edu
Mon Nov 24 21:12:15 PST 2008



--On Monday, November 24, 2008 11:00 PM -0600 Stefan li Rous
<StefanliRous at austin.rr.com> wrote:

> But aren't shrimp/seafood treated as the same as fish in religious
> edicts? Or are crustaceans restricted at times that fish are not? Was tis
> true in period as well?

In Christian religious restrictions shellfish and scaled fish are all
equivalent. However, I believe shellfish are not kosher, and so would go
against Jewish religious restrictions.

toodles, margaret




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