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Re: 2 corrections and other observations (Reply to this comment)
by naphtalia
Great comments. Thanks for the details and corrections. I, too, come from an Ashkenazik tradition that avoids legumes during Passover. I find this too restrictive and utterly non-sensical. As a vegetarian, I find it easier to follow a Sephardic tradition which allows rice and beans. My general rule is that out of the house, I'm Sephardic. In the house with other family members, I am Ashkenazi.
Hag Sameach.
Talia
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Apr 13 '03
10:58 am PDT
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2 corrections and other observations (Reply to this comment)
by zvize
As a Jew who has a command of Hebrew, I'm submitting corrections as well as other remarks:
A> It's the Hebrew letter Kaf (which looks in Hebrew like a backwards C) that indicates "kosher". (The letter Coof sounds virtually the same but looks different.) Also, the author meant to say "hekhsher" or "hechsher", not "heksher".
B> Yemeni Jews in Israel - primarily of the old generation - are known for their fondness to catch, cook and eat certain kinds of locusts. A humble beginning of such locus eating by other Jews in Israel may be taking roots thanks to the these Jews' effort to preserve and pass down their culinary heritage to the next generations.
C> For the benefit of those interested in Hebrew definitions of Kosher, Fleishig and Milchig are called in Hebrew Besaree and Halavee respectively.
D> Whomever is interested in the historic background of the Torah's directive "You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk" should know that the residents in the land of Israel prior to and during the Israelite settlement and conquest - who were collectively known as Cana'anites and spoke the same ancient Hebrew dialects as the Israelites - had a ritual practice of cooking kids in their mothers' milk and eating this dish; the directive to avoid this was one of the Torah's ways of distinguishing the Israelites from Cana'anites. These facts and reasoning had been forgotten in the course of the 2nd Temple's period (516 B.C.E. - 70 A.D.) or deliberately pressed out of memory by rabbis in the 1st century A.D. at the earliest. At that time the rabbis also took upon themselves to further differentiate between Jews and non-Jews, developing at least some of the Kosher laws with that purpose in mind. Rabbis of that and subsequent periods had formed all the rules of Kosher we know of.
E> As the author explained, Jews have also developed certain traditions, some of which even seem to fly in the face of Kosher rules. For instance, legumes are forbidden during Passover in the Ashkenazi tradition, even though this avoidance isn't even implicitly directed in any of the Jewish holy scriptures (from the Bible up to the Talmud), let alone explicitly. I'm an Ashkenazi and I simply ignore this tradition, though my grandma (to name one example) had never ignored it, even after I proved her why it doesn't make sense.
Zvi
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Apr 13 '03
2:24 am PDT
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Thanks for such a fact-filled piece... (Reply to this comment)
by amysmum
...you did a great job of explaining things.
Catriona
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Dec 17 '02
10:58 am PST
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Extensively Researched (Reply to this comment)
by Bruguru,  in Restaurants & Gourmet
And very interesting too. Thanks for the informative and interesting read.
Cheers!
John
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Dec 17 '02
6:39 am PST
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Most Interesting.... (Reply to this comment)
by tombarnes
A very thoughtful and informative piece. Well done. Tom Barnes
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Dec 16 '02
11:31 pm PST
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very informative (Reply to this comment)
by fuche_bu
This is invaluable information for Jewish persons who wish to come closer to the faith and for non Jewish persons who are merely curious or interested about kosher cuisine.
well written,
george
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Dec 16 '02
11:39 am PST
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