mixing meat with dairy...and kosher food

[angels4u]

Does this have meaning behind it?

Why would God not have allowed this?

SEPARATION OF DAIRY FROM MEAT

Meat and dairy ingredients must not be mixed together.

Milk dishes must be cooked and eaten separately from meat dishes.

Meat dishes must be cooked and eaten separately from milk dishes.

[Guest shiloh357]

Does this have meaning behind it?

Why would God not have allowed this?

SEPARATION OF DAIRY FROM MEAT

Meat and dairy ingredients must not be mixed together.

Milk dishes must be cooked and eaten separately from meat dishes.

Meat dishes must be cooked and eaten separately from milk dishes.

This is nothing but a Rabbinic law, it is not biblical.

[angels4u]

Thanks for your reply, do you know WHY they came up with something like that?

Was it symbolic for something?

It says also somewhere in the OT that is was wrong to make clothing from certain materials?

[Guest shiloh357]

Thanks for your reply, do you know WHY they came up with something like that?

Was it symbolic for something?

It says also somewhere in the OT that is was wrong to make clothing from certain materials?

To answer your first quesition, not mixing meat and mix was based on an obscure commandment in Deut. 14 and Lev. 11 about not boiling a kid in its mother's milk.

As to the second question. The Torah commands the children of Israel not to mix linen and wool. I do not know the reason behind that commandment.

[Waimahia]

Thanks for your reply, do you know WHY they came up with something like that?

Was it symbolic for something?

It says also somewhere in the OT that is was wrong to make clothing from certain materials?

To answer your first quesition, not mixing meat and mix was based on an obscure commandment in Deut. 14 and Lev. 11 about not boiling a kid in its mother's milk.

As to the second question. The Torah commands the children of Israel not to mix linen and wool. I do not know the reason behind that commandment.

I think a likely reason for not mixing wool and linen ie animal and vegetable fibres of widely different characteristics was that it made an inferior fabric. An unscrupulous merchant could defraud the unsuspecting by padding out a quality fibre with a cheap one.

Boiling a kid in its mother's milk was probaby a fertility rite of the pagan nations in the area and God's people were to avoid the practices of pagans. The Israelites, to guarantee this never happened, separated milk and meat. They were trying to obey God but went beyond what God actually required.

Regards,

Waimahia

[Guest eretz]

This comes from the second part of verse 19.

Exo 23:19 ...You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.

The technical reason for not boiling meat in milk is that it becomes too tough for our bodies to digest. The rabbinical law took this beyond what Adonai was asking for us to obey, IMHO. From this, they decided that meat and dairy products should not be mixed in anyway.

[EmunahTikvahAHAVA]

This comes from the second part of verse 19.

Exo 23:19 ...You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.

The technical reason for not boiling meat in milk is that it becomes too tough for our bodies to digest. The rabbinical law took this beyond what Adonai was asking for us to obey, IMHO. From this, they decided that meat and dairy products should not be mixed in anyway.

that's correct regarding the technical reason, and the scripture!

[EmunahTikvahAHAVA]

This comes from the second part of verse 19.

Exo 23:19 ...You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.

The technical reason for not boiling meat in milk is that it becomes too tough for our bodies to digest. The rabbinical law took this beyond what Adonai was asking for us to obey, IMHO. From this, they decided that meat and dairy products should not be mixed in anyway.

that's correct regarding the technical reason, and the scripture!

[sheya joie]

I have often thought that the verse about not boiling a kid in its mother's milk was also related to these concepts:

Lev 22:26 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

Lev 22:27 When a bullock, or a sheep, or a goat, is brought forth, then it shall be seven days under the dam; and from the eighth day and thenceforth it shall be accepted for an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

Lev 22:28 And whether it be cow or ewe,

ye shall not kill it and her young both in one day

.

Deu 22:6 If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs,

thou shalt not take the dam with the young

:

Deu 22:7 But thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days.

Pro 12:10

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast

: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

In other words, the idea is to avoid cruelity even to one's animals. The animal might not have any idea what's going on, but to slaughter a mother animal's baby and then have her provide the milk to cook it in - isn't that rather heartless?

[Guest eretz]

I have often thought that the verse about not boiling a kid in its mother's milk was also related to these concepts:

Lev 22:26 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

Lev 22:27 When a bullock, or a sheep, or a goat, is brought forth, then it shall be seven days under the dam; and from the eighth day and thenceforth it shall be accepted for an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

Lev 22:28 And whether it be cow or ewe,

ye shall not kill it and her young both in one day

.

Deu 22:6 If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs,

thou shalt not take the dam with the young

:

Deu 22:7 But thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days.

Pro 12:10

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast

: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

In other words, the idea is to avoid cruelity even to one's animals. The animal might not have any idea what's going on, but to slaughter a mother animal's baby and then have her provide the milk to cook it in - isn't that rather heartless?

I would agree. We are the caretakers of Adonai's creations.

Gen 1:28 And God blessed them; and God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the seas, and over birds of the heavens, and over all beasts creeping on the earth.

Gen 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every plant seeding seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree seeding seed; it shall be food for you.

Gen 1:30 And to every beast of the earth, and to all birds of the heavens, and to every creeper on the earth which has in it a living soul, every green plant is for food. And it was so.