db117/as noted, according to the Torah it is not


IT
is not
what goes into
the body that makes
one impure but only things that come out of the body:
such as fluxes of blood, semen, gonorrhea etceterara (aggression, hate, stupidity a.s.o.)!

The only food, according to the Torah,
that renders a body impure is carrion ~ & certainly not the eating
of permitted food that has become impure, or of forbidden foods generally. According to the Talmud itself,
it was the Rabbis (or the legendary Pharisees) who innovated the washing of the hands before meals ~ which implies
that the ingesting of defiled or polluted foods renders one impure. It was thus against those pharisaic innovations,
which they are trying to foist on his disciples,
that Yesh railed, and not against the keeping of kosher at all!

This is a debate between Jews
about the correct way to keep the Torah,
not an attack on the Torah.
Yair Furstenberg has brilliantly argued that in its original sense,
Yesh's attack on the Pharisees here
is literal: they
HAVE
changed the rules
of the Torah!

OK!
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