| There is simplicity in keeping kosher if you are | | | | and stamped kosher. To keep kosher meat it |
| Jewish. It is in the Torah, and not hard to | | | | must be slaughtered by a shochet. This is not an |
| decipher. One need not be Jewish to read and | | | | average butcher, but a butcher who is a devout, |
| understand the law as stated.Here are the basic | | | | and obedient to Jewish law. The shochet is |
| rules:1. Certain creatures may not be eaten, not | | | | practiced in slaughtering so deftly and quickly that |
| even the smallest part about them including their | | | | it is a virtually painless process. Keeping kosher |
| eggs if they are birds.2. Any creature that is okay | | | | means there is to be no undo pain or stress on |
| to eat must be killed according to the law as | | | | the animal that is being butchered. If it is found |
| written in the Torah.3. No blood from any | | | | that a butchering knife had a nick, or the animal |
| creature may be eaten; it must be drained | | | | was not properly dispatched in any way, the |
| completely or broiled away.4. There are even | | | | meat may not be called kosher and may not be |
| certain pieces of allowed creatures that may not | | | | eaten by any Jewish people, though it may be |
| be eaten.5. Meat may not be eaten with dairy, | | | | sold to non-Jews.The easiest way for a Jewish |
| and may not come in contact with each other, | | | | cook to keep kosher, whether in the home or in |
| nor may any utensils used on either may come in | | | | a public eating-place, is to keep separate utensils in |
| contact with each other.6. Any non-Jewish | | | | the kitchen. There should be pots, pans, and |
| produced grape product may not be eaten.If you | | | | cutlery in separate areas of the room designated |
| are a vegetarian, keeping kosher is your normal | | | | for either cooking meats or dairy. This is, perhaps, |
| state of living. The very hardest part of keeping | | | | the hardest part of keeping kosher for a Jewish |
| kosher is how to deal with meat products. There | | | | family in today's world. Now, everything has to be |
| is a very precise ritual in how to kill any living thing | | | | so fast, so on the go; but to keep kosher takes |
| for food. There are very precise lists of what | | | | time, thought and preparation. Once the food is |
| exactly may or may not be eaten. Leviticus and | | | | placed on the table, it tastes the same, looks the |
| Deuteronomy both state anything which has | | | | same and really, is the same, as anything called |
| cloven hooves AND chews a cud may be eaten. | | | | non-kosher. Keeping kosher is not about the food |
| Anything with fins and scales may be eaten. The | | | | itself, but about the ritual behind it's |
| fowl are less clear, but there is a list that says | | | | preparation.Thanks for reading. If you found this |
| what may not be eaten, leaving everything else | | | | article helpful be sure to check out more kosher |
| open for food.Keeping kosher while eating meat | | | | information, tips, and more articles about Jewish |
| products is difficult unless there is a kosher meat | | | | cooking on my website: www,jewishhomecooking. |
| shop in your area, or unless the meat is wrapped | | | | |