db112/113 although, somewhat confusingly, animals


that
are not
kosher are referred
to as "impure" animals,
these kashrut (kosher) laws have nothing to do
with purity & impurity of the body or other items. There is a separate set of rules
that define when any food - kosher or not - is pure or impure, depending on how that food was handled
& what other things it may have come into contact with. Indeed, there are kosher foods that in SOME circumstances & for SOME Jews
were forbidden to be eaten, despite the fact that they are in themselves made of entirely kosher ingredients, cooked in kosher pots, & not incorporating milk with meat. Such foods have become impure through some mishap, such as being touched by a person with a flux from his or her body. While all Jews are forbidden always to eat pork, lobster, milk & meat together, & meat that has not been properly slaughtered, only some Jews, some of the time, are forbidden to eat kosher food
that has become contaminated
with ritual impurity.

While in English
(and other languages)
they are sometimes confused, the system of purity
& impurity laws & the system of dietary laws are two different systems within the Torah's rules for eating,
& Mark & Yeshu knew the difference! One of the biggest obstacles to this understan-ding has been in the use of the English words "clean"
& "unclean" to refer both to the laws of permitted & forbidden foods & to the laws of pollution or impurity & purity.
These translate two entirely different sets of Hebrew words, MUTAR & TAHOR:
it would be better to translate the first set by "permitted" & "forbidden"
& use "clean" & "unclean," or "pure" & "impure,"
only for the latter set.

On one hand,
the Torah lists various species of birds,
fish & other sea creatures, & land animals that may never be eaten.
It also forbids the eating of the sciatic nerve, the consumption of certain kinds of fat on otherwise kosher animals,
the consumption of blood, & cooking a kid in its mother's milk
(taken early on by most Jews, apparently,
to mean not to cook meat
& milk together).

Together
these rules make up what is called
the Jewish dietary laws or kosher rules.
As we have mentioned,
they apply to all Jews
everywhere &
always.
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