Video: The Laws Of Kosher Animals
Here are two brief videos that explains the basic differences between kosher and non-kosher animal species.
This is a good summary of the basic Jewish laws that distinguish kosher species of mammals and birds from non-kosher species – if you leave out the talk about miracles and other similar references, which are not required by Jewish law and which conflict with science.
Torah Live - The Laws of Kosher Mammals from Dan Roth on Vimeo.
Torah Live - The Laws of Kosher Birds from Dan Roth on Vimeo.
What exact statement conflicts with science?
Posted by: None | June 20, 2011 at 07:19 AM
according to this guys logic we should really be vegataraions
Posted by: seymour | June 20, 2011 at 07:28 AM
The dense dentist does not know the word "antler". Furthermore he fails to point out that the RHINOCEROS also has horns, but of a very different nature and that they are NOT kosher.
"These farm animals are kosher"
Saying that with ALPACAs in the background, oy vey... Showing that Jews are not huge intellects, scheming to take over the world, is good, but he is overdoing it.
Posted by: Teddy | June 20, 2011 at 08:09 AM
There is no such a thing as "conflicting with science," as science itself self-conflicts. Anyone who studies physics, the most pure form of science, even on the most fundamental level understands that physicists themselves ultimately strive to unify scientific theories.
Posted by: Aharoni | June 20, 2011 at 08:12 AM
In this issue, BIOLOGY is the relevant science, and as nothing in biology makes sense without evolution... FYI, giraffes eat only rarely grass or grains.
Posted by: Teddy | June 20, 2011 at 08:37 AM
In this issue, BIOLOGY is the relevant science, and as nothing in biology makes sense without evolution... FYI, giraffes eat only rarely grass or grains.
Posted by: Teddy | June 20, 2011 at 08:37 AM
wjat do they eat
Posted by: seymour | June 20, 2011 at 08:43 AM
I once read a q-and-a assuring people that dinosaurs weren't kosher, only to later learn that some people classified birds (which include some kosher animals) as being among the dinosaurs (thank you, Archeoptyrx et al.) So defining kashrut is a tricky affair if a new food is encountered. How'd they figure out the potato (of South American heritage and "discovered" by Jews well after Biblical times) was kosher? (Maybe because it's vegetation, but, still...) And what about such animals as turkeys, etc.?
Posted by: Reuven | June 20, 2011 at 08:48 AM
science itself self-conflicts
Yes, and so do the Torah and rest of the Bible.
http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/index.htm
Posted by: Reuven | June 20, 2011 at 08:53 AM
At least that's what the skeptics say, anyhow. (And bear in mind that they're studying from an English translation and not the original Hebrew.)
Posted by: Reuven | June 20, 2011 at 08:55 AM
How'd they figure out the potato (of South American heritage and "discovered" by Jews well after Biblical times) was kosher? (Maybe because it's vegetation, but, still...) And what about such animals as turkeys, etc.?
Posted by: Reuven | June 20, 2011 at 08:48 AM
Other than birds, it's relatively easy to tell which animals are kosher if you know about their biology. All vegetables are kosher so there wouldn't be an issue unless it was infested with bugs, and in such situation most people wouldn't want to eat it anyways. As far as turkeys are concerned, my understanding is that it was very similar to a bird from India for which there was a tradition of eating it.
Posted by: Bubba Metzia | June 20, 2011 at 09:34 AM
Science does not conflict with itself. It operates under certain assumptions and constantly challenges and refines those assumptions when necessary. Modern-day Torah operates under certain assumptions, but does not challenge them and hence cannot refine them.
Posted by: shlomo zalman | June 20, 2011 at 09:42 AM
"Science does not conflict with itself." How many books on physics have you read recently?
Posted by: Aharoni | June 20, 2011 at 10:08 AM
Seymour, Giraffes eat leaves, bark, the kind of stuff you find in trees... It's not that they do not LIKE grass, but it tends to grow so far from their mouths...
Posted by: Teddy | June 20, 2011 at 10:36 AM
Very nice, Shmaryah! What a contrast!
Its soooo funny to see how this guy goes from relatively neutral, restrained video #1 to COMPLETELY idiotic, illogical video #2.
Why every other guy like this simply cannot resist adding to the LAW?
Video #1: He says that kosher animals have horns?!? Its a good observation, but it is not in the Law of Moses and some horned species or families of species are clearly not kosher (ie rhinos, some pronghorns e.t.c).
And video #2: Its a complete joke, save for his more or less correct statement that kosher birds usually herbivores.
Although I do believe that i.e. chickens are omnivores, so they do eat meat/insects.
And at the and of video #2, I thought I was looking at some Christian missionary who was about to tell me if I'd wanted to "be saved" and "hear the good news" because of all that "peace" and "vegan" mumbo-jumbo ;) lol
Posted by: Aleksandr Sigalov | June 20, 2011 at 10:59 AM
There is no such a thing as "conflicting with science," as science itself self-conflicts. Posted by: Aharoni
can you provide examples of where science "self-conflicts" so we know what youre referring to ?
can you explain how your statement that science self-conflicts would exclude the possibility that torah conflicts with science?
Posted by: ah-pee-chorus | June 20, 2011 at 01:09 PM
Mmmm...laboratory grown meat!
Posted by: Nigritude Ultramarine | June 21, 2011 at 12:04 AM
Lab grown meat is inescapable
Posted by: Nigritude Ultramarine | June 21, 2011 at 12:38 AM
By the way, the camel does have a cloven hoof. I've ridden enough to know.
Posted by: Pagan | June 21, 2011 at 03:08 AM
Pagan, whether or not the camel has a cloven hoof, the Torah says that its hoof is not cloven, and thus it is not cloven the right way.
Posted by: Teddy | June 21, 2011 at 02:16 PM