Timeline for Are Animal Crackers depicting non-kosher animals non-kosher?
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| May 16, 2011 at 16:25 | comment | added | YDK | Yonkeltron, I didn't mean to insult you, just drag you into a healthy debate. I appologize. While this sight weighs heavily to the side of traditional Judaism, it is far from close minded. However, a poster is expected to bring sources when his answer may be controversial. | |
| May 16, 2011 at 15:49 | comment | added | yonkeltron | "Classic Jewish Thought" is ongoing. It continues. Is this stack exchange only for things which mainstream Orthodoxy views as "valid" hashkafa? If so, let me know so I can end my participation and go find a community which values the diversity of Jewish thought, and certainly halakha, as it has existed throughout history. | |
| May 12, 2011 at 18:27 | comment | added | YDK | I didn't down-vote you because I don't agree, I did so because your answer doesn't align with classic Jewish thought and needs a well grounded source. | |
| May 12, 2011 at 18:14 | comment | added | YDK | How do you honor a mitzvah and thereby employ a higher ethical standard without identifying what that ethical conduct is before making applications. Your applications would go against this Midrash Tanchuma in which Hashem emphasizes allowances which are similar to restrictions: hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=14123&st=&pgnum=306 | |
| May 11, 2011 at 19:51 | comment | added | yonkeltron | Though you may disagree with me, my logic in intact. Kashrut is in fact a mitzvah d'oraisa though much implementation is d'rabbanan. I hold with the midrash tankhuma (vayishlakh) when it indicates "The heart of Judaism is ethics" a principle which, combined with the philosophical stance of Rambam, confirms that every mitzvah is an embodiment of an ethical/moral precept. Given opportunities to employ our ethics, do we not have an obligation to take advantage of chances to honor a mitzvah? However, glad to see that within an hour of joining here, different opinions are rewarded with downvotes. | |
| May 11, 2011 at 15:45 | comment | added | YDK | yonkeltron, your logic is backward. Firstly, not eating milk and meat at the same meal is a rabbinical restriction protecting us from cooking the 2 together. We don't extend those prohibitions to areas that don't fit the concept. Secondly, the sages never restricted eating impure animals and milk together since the animal is biblically restricted anyway. If you have a personal preference for over-restricting so that you don't make light of mitzvos, don't eat the cracker! | |
| May 11, 2011 at 15:23 | history | answered | yonkeltron | CC BY-SA 3.0 |