kosher & halal
Mark A Mandel
mam at THEWORLD.COM
Tue Feb 26 22:12:22 UTC 2002
On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Marc Sacks wrote:
#I discovered another one when I passed by a halal restaurant that serves
#cheeseburgers. Under the laws of kashrut, combining milk with meat
#products is forbidden. Evidently this particular restriction does not
#exist in Islam. Ditto for Seventh-Day Adventists, who abstain from pork
#and shellfish but have no problem with cheeseburgers.
That's not surprising, considering that this most famous aspect of
kashrut all stems from rabbinic elaboration of a single verse, "Do not
stew a kid/calf in its mother's milk."
-- Mark A. Mandel
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