by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 9, 2022 | Emor, Kindness and Compassion
The Torah contains many commandments pertaining to eating animals; which animals are permitted and how to slaughter them. In the context of verses pertaining to Temple offerings, the Torah adds the prohibition against slaughtering an animal and its offspring on the...
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 26, 2022 | Acharei Mot, Antisemitism, Purity
In Leviticus, God prohibits Israel from eating blood in the strictest terms. This prohibition also includes hunting and eating from the carcass of a dead animal (Leviticus 17:10-16), and the punishment for one who violates this is karet. In fact, the prohibition...
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 24, 2022 | Bible Study
Leviticus provides four categories of permitted and forbidden foods. Animals are defined by a rule; split hooves and chewing cud signify a kosher animal. Similarly, aquatic life that is permitted is signified by fins and scales. Bugs are forbidden except for locusts...
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 23, 2022 | Shemini
The Torah prohibits eating insects, referring to them as “an abomination”: All winged swarming things that walk on fours shall be an abomination for you. Leviticus 11:20 Given that the Torah defines insects as an abomination, it comes as a surprise that there is an...
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 23, 2022 | Bible Study
Leviticus introduces the classifications of clean and unclean meat. It contains laws regarding not only land animals, but anything edible that comes from the sea as well. The rules for sea creatures are really quite simple, requiring two elements for kosher sea...
