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Goats, and, to a lesser extent, sheep, provided milk for part of the year, and milk and dairy products were a significant source of food. Dairy products are mentioned in the Bible (for example, Genesis 18:8 , Judges 4:19 , and 2 Samuel 17:29 , and a repeated description of the Land of Israel in the Bible is "a land flowing with milk and honey ...
Chalav Yisrael (Hebrew: חֲלַב יִשְׂרָאֵל ), also pronounced cholov Yisroel, [1] refers to kosher milk whose milking was observed by an observant Jew.The takkanah of chalav Yisrael, which originates in the Mishnah and Talmud, was instituted due to a concern that a non-Jew might mix milk of a non-kosher animal with the milk of a kosher animal. [2]
Daniel is a legendary figure [9] and his name was presumably chosen for the hero of the book because of his reputation as a wise seer in Hebrew tradition. [10] The structure of the chapter can be described as follows: [11] I. Introduction: date and place (verses 1–2); II. Vision report: ram, he-goat, angelic conversation (3–12); III.
The Mendisians, according to this last writer, paid reverence to all goats, and more to the males than to the females, and particularly to one he-goat, on the death of which public mourning is observed throughout the whole Mendesian district; they call both Pan and the goat Mendes, and both were worshipped as gods of generation and fecundity.
A variety of Israeli cheeses. Straw baskets used traditionally in the production of Tzfatit Cheeses for sale at the Carmel Market in Tel Aviv.. The well known Tzfatit, or Tzfat Cheese, a semi-hard salty sheep's milk cheese was first produced in Safed (Tzfat in Hebrew) in 1840 and is still produced there by descendants of the original cheese makers. [11]
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.
Such wild animals settling in ruined areas such as Babylon and Edom reinforces them as a symbol of divine judgement and chaos. [11] Samuel Bochart and other Biblical scholars identified the Se'irim with Egyptian goat-deities. [12] Leviticus 17:7 admonishes Israel to keep from sacrificing to the Se'irim. [13]
In Talmudic times, readings from the Torah within the synagogues were rendered, verse-by-verse, into an Aramaic translation. To this day, the oldest surviving custom with respect to the Yemenite Jewish prayer-rite is the reading of the Torah and the Haftara with the Aramaic translation (in this case, Targum Onkelos for the Torah and Targum Jonathan ben 'Uzziel for the Haftarah).