kosher & halal

[Donald M Lance]

on 2/26/02 7:20 PM, Laurence Horn at laurence.horn at YALE.EDU wrote:

> 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
>
My, my.  What a limited imagination.  They also, I'm sure, had American
pizza in mind.
DMLance