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Skriven 2012-04-22 23:01:10 av RUTH HANSCHKA (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av GLEN JAMIESON
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->  RH> Nope - you have to talk to God for yourself.  The word Rabbi means
->  RH> teacher;  he's not a priest, although he or she can officiate at a
->  RH> marriage. Banned  foods (trayf/treyf) are OK under certain 
conditions -
->  RH> ie there's nothing else 
-> 
-> I suppose that logically, starving to death would be more sinful..
-> 
It would be akin to committing suicide, which is a lot worse than eating a 
BLT.

->  RH> to eat.  If the only protein for miles around for instance is 
catfish,
->  RH> then  you eat catfish.  Catfish aren't kosher and can't be made so.  
I
->  RH> have  vegetarian Jewish friends who keep kosher too.  The only bad 
time
->  RH> is Passover,  when soy products are off the menu.
-> 
-> I can understand why certain meats could be considered unhealthy, and
-> therefore classified as Kosher/Halal, but why would soy products so
-> offend?  Would they have been known as foods to Abraham and his lot?

Kitnyot - little bits. It's the whole leaven thing.  Things that ferment 
spontaneously are off the menu for the duration of Passover.  Some new
world 
products aren't allowed because they either ferment naturally or may 
ferment.  Corn products aren't allowed, although they're fine for the rest 
of the year.  Sephardic Jews can eat rice during Passover, but Ashkenazi 
(Eastern European mostly) Jews can't.  Some foods are considered suspect
and 
not eaten at that time "just in case".  On the other hand, seeds like
Quinoa 
are considered just fine as long as they're certified. 

-> In this recipe, what is the meaning of "koshered"?

->       4    Lamb shanks, koshered, >>>>

Basically rubbed with salt and left to sit for a while.  Jews aren't
allowed 
to eat blood, so the meat is salted to make sure the blood is drawn out. 
Or 
something like that.  You wash the salt off before cooking.  Poultry here 
often comes pre-kashered if you're buying kosher meat.  We gentiles buy it 
because it saves us the trouble of brining it.  That's especially true for 
turkeys, because fitting a 20-pound turkey into the fridge is bad enough 
without having to fit in a bathtub for it.  You could just brine the lamb 
and leave it at that.  
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