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Some foods may be prohibited during certain religious periods (e.g., Lent), at certain stages of life (e.g., pregnancy), or to certain classes of people (e.g., priests), even if the food is otherwise permitted. On a comparative basis, what may be declared unfit for one group may be perfectly acceptable to another within the same culture or ...
The mixture of meat and dairy (Hebrew: בשר בחלב, romanized: basar bechalav, lit. 'meat in milk') is forbidden according to Jewish law.This dietary law, basic to kashrut, is based on two verses in the Book of Exodus, which forbid "boiling a (goat) kid in its mother's milk" [1] and a third repetition of this prohibition in Deuteronomy.
Laws concerning the produce of the land: the heave-offering for the priests; the tithes to the Levites; the poor man's right to the gleanings, the forgotten sheaf, and the unreaped grain in the corners of the field; the use of young trees (prohibited during the first three years); the mixing of different kinds of vegetables ; the Sabbatical year.
In Judaism, the concept of "impure animals" plays a prominent role in the Kashrut, the part of Jewish law that specifies which foods are allowed or forbidden to Jews. These laws are based upon the Books of Leviticus [1] and Deuteronomy [2] of the Torah and in the extensive body of rabbinical commentaries (the Talmud). [3] [4] [5]
Chelev (Hebrew: חֵלֶב, ḥēleḇ), "suet", is the animal fats that the Torah prohibits Jews and Israelites from eating. [1] Only the chelev of animals that are of the sort from which offerings can be brought in the Tabernacle or Temple are prohibited (Leviticus 7:25).
In Jewish religious law, there is a category of specific Jewish purity laws, defining what is ritually impure or pure: ṭum'ah (Hebrew: טומאה, pronounced) and ṭaharah (Hebrew: טהרה, pronounced) are the state of being ritually "impure" and "pure", respectively.
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Observe the laws of impurity caused by a dead beast — Lev. 11:39; Observe the laws of impurity caused by the eight shratzim (insects) — Lev. 11:29; Observe the laws of impurity of a seminal emission (regular ejaculation, with normal semen) — Lev. 15:16; Observe the laws of impurity concerning liquid and solid foods — Lev. 11:34