1. Jewish Kosher Law What do you know?

2. 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.

3. 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. Leviticus 20:25-26 “ 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.”

4. 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. Most domestic birds, like chicken, turkey, duck and geese, are kosher. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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. 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.