Kosher%20Kitchen

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Kosher Kitchen

• What do you know?

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Keeping Kosher at Home

• Meat and dairy products may not be cooked or
  consumed together. You should wait six hours
  after eating meat before eating dairy products.
• This separation applies to the dishes, cutlery,
  pots, pans, ovens, and utensils used. Two sets of
  everything are required---one for meat and one
  for dairy--and are usually stored separately.
• To signify that a certain food has been carefully
  supervised by a rabbi, a symbol (hechsher) is
  used. Check the products you buy.
• For more information, please contact a competent
  Orthodox rabbi or teacher.

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Eating Kosher According to the Bible

• Eating kosher means to partake only of select
  nourishment sources which are biblically ordained
  by God. God considers only kosher animals (with
  fruits and vegetables) to be food.
• We are also a holy and singular people on the
  earth. God wants everything we do to testify of
  our being a holy people. Even our eating is
  subject to the will of God, who gives us
  everything holy and good to enjoy.
• Leviticus 2025-26 You shall therefore make a
  difference between clean animals and unclean, and
  between unclean fowls and clean and you shall
  not make your souls abominable by animal, or by
  fowl, or by any manner of living thing that moves
  on the ground, which I have separated from you as
  unclean. And you shall be holy unto me. for I,
  YHVH, am holy, and have separated you from other
  people, that you should be mine.

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Your Guide to Kosher Foods

• Meat and Poultry
• Beef, veal, lamb, and venison are permitted as
  well as other animals that have split hooves and
  chew their cud. These are usually animals that
  graze and are not predators. Most domestic
  birds, like chicken, turkey, duck and geese, are
  kosher.
• However, for meat and poultry to be considered
  kosher, even permitted animals must be inspected
  and prepared by a qualified specialist to meet
  rigorous standards above and beyond that of the
  federal government.
• According to Torah law, all life must be revered.
  For this reason there are special laws dictating
  how the animal or fowl is to be slaughtered. This
  process follows the biblical mandate not to cause
  pain and suffering to any living creature.

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Your Guide to Kosher Foods

• Dairy
• All kosher dairy products are free of any animal
  by-products. Staples like milk and butter are
  virtually always kosher. However rabbinical
  supervision is required.
• Trafe
• The opposite of kosher ("fit" or "proper") is
  trafe. Trafe means "torn" or "damaged" and is a
  grouping of foods such as Pork, aggressive
  animal meat, wild birds and birds of prey,
  shellfish, sea mammals, frogs, turtles, octopi
  and insects are forbidden.
• To follow the old adage, "you are what you eat,"
  ingesting these animals, according to many
  authorities, would be to absorb their negative
  instincts as well.

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Your Guide to Kosher Foods

• Pareve
• Pareve is a term used to describe kosher food
  that contains neither dairy nor meat and is
  considered "neutral." Beer, soda, many fine
  wines, juices and fruit liquors must have a
  hechsher (and are usually pareve).All things that
  grow from the earth are considered kosher. It
  doesn't matter what type of plant---they are all
  pareve in their natural state. Once processed,
  however, supervision is required.
• Any fish that has both fins and scales falls into
  the pareve category of kosher foods. A few
  examples of permissable fish are salmon, tuna,
  flounder, sole, halibut, whitefish, sardines, and
  rainbow trout. However, they must be cleaned and
  prepared with kosher utensils. Eggs from kosher
  birds are not considered meat, but are kosher and
  pareve.

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"Kosher for Passover"

• During Passover, Jews refrain from eating
  chometz anything that contains barley, wheat,
  rye, oats, and spelt, and is not cooked within 18
  minutes after coming in contact with water. No
  leavening is allowed. This signifies the fact
  that the Hebrews had no time to let their bread
  rise as they made a hurried escape from Egypt.
• Jews of different backgrounds do not observe all
  of the same rules. Ashkenazi Jews, who come from
  Europe (most Jews in America), also avoid corn,
  rice, peanuts, and legumes as they are also used
  to make bread and may have other grains mixed in.
  These items are known as kitniyot.

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More Rules for Kosher for Passover

• Rules and guidelines may be extremely stringent.
  Not only must Orthodox Jews not eat these items,
  but they also must completely remove them and any
  food that has come in contact with them from
  their homes.
• Some go through amazingly thorough and
  labor-intensive cleaning processes to rid their
  homes of any hint of chometz or kitniyot. For
  example
• Scouring Stoves, Ovens, Sinks, and Refrigerators
• Silverware must be "heated to a glow" and then
  cooled.
• Pots must be cleaned inside and out. To
  accomplish this, a pot must be filled with water
  and brought to a boil.

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More Rules for Kosher for Passover

• Items which seem acceptable for Passover but may
  not be
• Soda Most sodas contain corn syrup. Since eating
  corn is a no-no, soda containing corn syrup is
  also out.
• Frozen vegetables Many bags of frozen vegetables
  are produced on the same machinery that also
  produces pasta or pasta/vegetable blends.
• Raw vegetables Some fruits and vegetables
  (cucumbers for example) have wax coatings that
  may be made from soy proteins and oils derived
  from grain.
• Dried fruits These are often dried in ovens
  where bread is sometimes baked.
• Marshmallows Not allowed unless made under
  supervision.
• Milk Unsuitable additives are often used.

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What is Pesach Passover?

• Of all the Jewish holidays, Pesach is the one
  most commonly observed, even by otherwise
  non-observant Jews. According to the 1990
  National Jewish Population Survey (NJPS), more
  than 80 of Jews have attended a Pesach seder.
• Pesach begins on the 15th day of the Jewish month
  of Nissan. It is the first of the three major
  festivals with both historical and agricultural
  significance
• The name "Pesach" (PAY-sahch, with a "ch" as in
  the Scottich "loch") comes from the Hebrew root
  Peh-Samech-Chet , meaning to pass through, to
  pass over, to exempt or to spare. It refers to
  the fact that God "passed over" the houses of the
  Jews when he was slaying the firstborn of Egypt.

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What is Pesach Passover?

• Passover celebrates the Jewish people's freedom
  from Egyptian bondage that took place
  approximately 3,500 years ago, as told in the
  first 15 chapters of the biblical Book of Exodus.
  
• Passover, which commences at sundown on a
  Saturday evening and lasts eight days, (seven
  days for most Reform Jews, some Conservative
  Jews, and Jews in Israel), concluding on a Sunday
  evening.