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Keeping these food laws is one part of what is referred to in Jewish culture as “keeping kosher.”
Tara-Leigh Cobble • The Bible Recap: A One-Year Guide to Reading and Understanding the Entire Bible
shortening, gelatin, and stearic acid, which could be derived from non-kosher animals or from dairy sources. That is why rabbinic supervision is
Blu Greenberg • How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household
Kashrut is not simply a set of rules about permitted and forbidden foods; kashrut is a way of life. As with any life-style we adopt, we know we are successful at it when it becomes second nature to us.
Blu Greenberg • How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household
First they circumcise all Israelite males, then they celebrate Passover. Their hearts need to remember Passover—it reinforces their faith.
Tara-Leigh Cobble • The Bible Recap: A One-Year Guide to Reading and Understanding the Entire Bible
forbidden to deceive a gentile even with regard to a matter that will not cause him a loss, e.g., to sell him meat from an animal that
Sichos In English • Shulchan Aruch of Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, Volume 12: Choshen Mishpat
Devarim 15:8. Kesubos 67b infers from the Hebrew phrase employed that the mitzvah of giving charity involves giving a person not merely enough to satisfy his basic necessities, but also enough to enable him to maintain
Sichos In English • Shulchan Aruch of Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, Volume 12: Choshen Mishpat
There’s some rich symbolism here: The unleavened loaf represents the Israelites, and the leavened loaf is foreshadowing the day when the Gentiles, non-Jews, will be brought into this family.
Tara-Leigh Cobble • The Bible Recap: A One-Year Guide to Reading and Understanding the Entire Bible
believe that the purpose of kashrut is to make eating a special experience and to serve as a reminder of a Jew’s ethical conscience as well as of the other unique teachings of Judaism. To me, distinctiveness and not separation is the Jew’s calling.