Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama
Unless you were schooled in an Orthodox community, Jewish dietary rules can be very confusing. They are also confusing within the Jewish community. The rules for various foods laid down in the Torah suffer from time, translation, and interpretation, and there is no governing body to clarify what is kosher and what is not.
The books of Leviticus and Deuteronomy contain lists of birds that are forbidden to eat, but no explanation of why or guidance for judging species that were unknown at the time.Over the past 2,000 years, Jewish scholars have arrived at a couple of broad conclusions about what was meant by these particular 24 species. Or, well, 22…
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