7) THE REASONS WHY THE RABBIS WERE STRICTER THAN
THE TORAH WITH REGARD TO MEAT AND MILK
The Torah only prohibited meat
from a BEHEIMA (domesticated animal) from being cooked together with milk from
a BEHEIMA (see post 6).
The Rabbis, however, included the
prohibition of eating a cooked
entity of meat from both a CHAYA (wild animal) and OFF (fowl), when cooked with
milk. The reasons why they felt the need to be stricter were as follows:
11) It is easier to slip up and makes mistakes with meat and milk,
than it is to slip up in most other areas of Halacha.
22) Meat and milk are found in almost every kitchen.
33) Meat and milk are quite permissible when separate from each other.
44) To the untrained eye, there is much similarity between the meats
of wild animals, fowl and domesticated animals. And it is easy to sometimes
confuse them.
They therefore decreed that any kosher species of meat (whether wild
animal, fowl or domesticated animal), even if not cooked but just mixed
together cold with milk, may not be eaten[1].
[1] We
would, however (under Rabbinical law), be permitted to cook CHAYA and OFF with milk, and to derive benefit from such a
cooked entity, provided we don’t eat
it.
Consider that it is permissible to cook kosher game and poultry (chaya and oif) and benefit from them. [BUT NOT EAT THEM]. By definition these meats are parev from a cooking perspective. Practically then, by extension, if one were cooking these permissibly, we would need to cook them in milk vessels. Since we would not be able to put milk into a meat pot (that we cook beheima in).
ReplyDeleteThis is a classic case where our gut feel, intuition, logic; is contrary to halacha and not a basis for Jewish Law.
But having said that; I've probably given a lot of you indigestion; and would be banished from most kitchens.
So it is an open question that I'm trying to determine regarding the ta'am of these parev meats...
The question is a fascinating one; Would one be permitted Lechatchila (in the first instance) to cook chicken in a milk pot?
DeleteHow parev is chicken and wild game, practically?