kosher & halal

[Laurence Horn]

At 5:12 PM -0500 2/26/02, Mark A Mandel wrote:
>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."
>
Exactly.  Somehow it's hard to imagine the Talmudic scholars had
cheeseburgers in mind...

larry