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Speaker 1: Welcome to Brain Staff front House, staff works dot com

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Speaker 1: where smart happens. Hi Am Marshall Brain with today's question,

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Speaker 1: how do kosher foods work? In the grocery store, you'll

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Speaker 1: find all sorts of foods labeled as kosher, but the

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Speaker 1: most common are kosher hot dogs and kosher pickles. You

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Speaker 1: will often find a you with a circle around it

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Speaker 1: on kosher products. There's also the word parava on many foods,

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Speaker 1: and this is a form of kosher labeling as well.

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Speaker 1: When a food is labeled as kosher, it means that

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Speaker 1: the food has been prepared in accordance with the rules

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Speaker 1: of food preparation that are set forth in the Old

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Speaker 1: Testament of the Bible and formalized in Jewish law. For example,

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Speaker 1: in chapter eleven of the Book of Leviticus, the Bible states,

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Speaker 1: and the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, say to

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Speaker 1: the people of Israel, these are the living things which

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Speaker 1: you may eat among all the beasts that are on

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Speaker 1: the earth, whatever parts the hoof and is cloven footed,

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Speaker 1: and choose the cud among the animals you may eat. Nevertheless,

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Speaker 1: among those that chew the cud or part the hoof,

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Speaker 1: you shall not eat. These The camel because it choose

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Speaker 1: the cud but does not part the hoof is unclean

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Speaker 1: to you. And the rock badger because it choose the

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Speaker 1: cud but does not part the hoof is unclean to you.

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Speaker 1: And the hair because it choose the cud but does

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Speaker 1: not part the hoof is unclean to you. And the

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Speaker 1: swine because it parts the hoof and is cloven footed,

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Speaker 1: but does not chew the cud is unclean to you.

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Speaker 1: Of their flesh you shall not eat. And there are

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Speaker 1: carcasses you shall not touch. They are unclean to you.

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Speaker 1: These you may eat. Of all that are in the waters.

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Speaker 1: Everything in the waters that has fins and scales, whether

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Speaker 1: in the seas or in the rivers, you may eat.

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Speaker 1: But anything in the seas or rivers that has not

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Speaker 1: ends and scales. Of the swarming creatures in the waters,

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Speaker 1: and of the living creatures that are in the waters,

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Speaker 1: is an abomination to you. The Bible goes on to

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Speaker 1: cover birds, insects, and so on in quite a bit

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Speaker 1: of detail. Other parts of the Bible indicate that the

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Speaker 1: mixing of meat and milk is forbidden, that animals should

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Speaker 1: be killed humanely according to certain rituals, and so on.

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Speaker 1: By following all these different rules under rabbinical supervision, of

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Speaker 1: food can be certified and labeled as kosher. Meat and

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Speaker 1: milk cannot be mixed, they cannot be eaten at the

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Speaker 1: same time, and even the utensils used to prepare meat

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Speaker 1: and dairy foods must be separated. On the other hand,

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Speaker 1: most vegetables, fruits, grains, and nuts can be mixed with

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Speaker 1: either meat or milk. Therefore, these foods could be consumed

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Speaker 1: at any time. A food that can be eaten either

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Speaker 1: with meat or milk is labeled as parav a. You'll

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Speaker 1: see that label on the cover of a lot of

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Speaker 1: different foods. For moralness and thousands of other topics, visit

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